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  1. helen
    9 June 2013 @ 2:22 am

    MHNI was treating patients with intravenous antihistamines as a preventative. Maybe it still is. Maybe it did some pertinent research.

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  2. Bibi
    11 June 2013 @ 4:21 pm

    Since I started taking Sandomigran (a weak antihistamine) as a preventive drug my migraines come once a week instead of twice a week. Changing my diet to gluten free and low histamine the migraines now come 3 weeks apart. – A major improvement for me 🙂
    In the US a similar drug named Cyproheptadine seems to be available.

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  3. Sunny
    12 June 2013 @ 11:24 am

    Cutting down on high histimane foods has lessened the amounts of migraines I get. Aged cheeses, chocolate, can fish, yogurt, basically all aged and fermented foods. Taking Benadryl at night helps with the am headaches/migraines.

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    • chris
      17 June 2013 @ 5:50 am

      “am headaches/migraines.” If you are getting migraine in the morning check yourself for bruxism – open and close your mouth and if you hear a clicking/grinding noise this is a classic sign of bruxism, you will need a hard sleeping mouth splint which is very effective. If you are getting migraine about 20-30mins after showering in the morning don’t put the shower over your head, doing this makes you uses your corrugator muscles; wash your face and head separate being very careful to apply and remove soap with a flannel, don’t splash water on your face, again this will make you use your corrugator muscles. Bright glaring sun light will also make you use the corrugator muscles, do your best to keep them relaxed, better still stay out of very bright sun, also the infrared helps the body make nitric oxide and that triggers migraine.

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  4. Meggan
    1 March 2014 @ 8:03 pm

    So, going low histamine AND DAO questions;
    Is it safe for your body to be perpetually low histamine? AND, If you start DAO, so it help jumpstart your system into making its own again?

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    • Kerrie Smyres
      28 March 2014 @ 1:19 pm

      DAO supplements are relatively new, but taking it isn’t thought to kickstart the body’s production of DAO. It just temporarily adds in the enzyme that you’re missing. It’s like people who are lactose intolerant taking Lactaid. It works for the time they’re both in the digestive tract, but that’s it.

      It’s OK to be on a low-histamine diet for an extended period. Your body is still making histamine, you’re just controlling the amount of additional histamine you introduce to your system.

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  5. Kerrie Smyres
    28 March 2014 @ 1:50 pm

    Thanks for this great information, James. I wish I’d seen it before I figured out on my own that DAO deficiency was such a problem for me! I’ve also noticed that most foods on typical migraine diets are high in histamine. Seems like more than a coincidence to me, although that could be because I’m doing SO much better now that I’m taking DAO and eating a low-histamine diet.

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  6. Nancy Mills
    27 June 2014 @ 11:05 pm

    Hi, I have been on a histamine elimination diet. It is helping the itching. Antihistamines (H1 blockers) give me a headache. I have chronic migraine, at 68 yo. They can be quite severe at times. Histamine is a problem for me causing sever vulver itching as well as itching all over. Watchout for Ibuprofin it can suppress DAO and damage your gut too. The elimination diet is the place to start. Nancy

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