It is noteworthy that most allergic symptoms get worse after consuming foods such as eggs, shellfish, fish, strawberries, pineapple, tomatoes, chocolate, or drinking alcohol (especially wine and beer) or smoking. During allergies, the body reacts by producing additional histamine, so antihistamine medications are recommended. Other foods that contain large amounts of histamine or release histamine cause severe allergic symptoms; alcohol, like red wine, is one of the main triggers. It should be noted that each individual has a different tolerance level for histamine, so different people will react differently to different levels of histamine. If your histamine tolerance level is reached; overflows causing allergic symptoms.

Fermentation of food leads to the production of histamine as in cheese, semolina, vinegar, and alcoholic beverages. Unfortunately, some foods have extra natural amounts of histamine like tomato, eggplant, and spinach. Food additives, including azo dyes, tartrazine, and preservatives, trigger the release of histamine. Benzoates found naturally in some foods also cause the release of histamine, which is why they are listed as those to avoid to reduce allergic symptoms.

Other foods to avoid

i) Meat, poultry, fish and eggs to avoid: Most of these products will produce high levels of histamine causing histamine food poisoning known as scombriod, especially fish, shellfish, anchovies, and sardines if they start to spoil.

The egg product should also be avoided except in its other products such as pancakes, bread, cakes and others.

Avoid all processed, smoked or fermented meats like sandwich meat, sausage, weiner, mortadella, salami, pepperoni, smoked ham, bacon. Chemicals are used in some of these foods to cure them, such as ham and meats, which give them a distinctive pink color.

Bacteria work easily on leftovers, so histamine is produced especially in protein-based leftovers that are kept at room or refrigerator temperature. To avoid this, freeze all leftovers to stop histamine production.

ii) Dairy Products to Avoid: Avoid all fermented dairy products such as cheeses, yogurt, buttermilk and kefir, sour cream. When we say cheeses we include processed cheese, sliced ​​cheese and spread because they are fermented and at the same time processed; These include cheddar, coldby, blue cheese, brie, camembert, feta, romano, cottage cheese, and ricotta.

iii) Fruits to avoid: On the list are oranges, grapefruits, lemon, lime, cherries, grapes, apricots, avocados, raspberries, blueberries, plums, blackberries, dates, raisins, fresh or dried currants. In addition, bananas, papayas, pineapple, strawberries, and tomatoes also release histamine.

iv) Vegetables to avoid: Tomatoes and their products such as tomato sauces, tomato sauce and others, soy products, spinach, red beans, aubergine, pumpkin.

All vegetables packed in vinegar or salt like olives, pickles, seasonings, and other fermented vegetables like sauerkraut should be avoided.

v) Alcoholic beverages to avoid: All types of alcohol should be avoided; including beer and wine for them histamine.

Other foods that should be avoided in the control and treatment of hives are some; food addictives and food coloring, seasonal such as cinnamon, cloves, vinegar, chilli, anise, nutmeg, soy sauce and curry powder, drinks such as tea, coffee, chocolate, cocoa, cola, alcohol and any other that causes allergies . It is recommended to drink water with lemon at least 8 times a day.