Histamine and Nut Allergies

Although a lot of people have to deal with nut allergies, many of them are not aware of exactly what is going on behind the scenes that is causing these allergies.

Many of them mistakenly think that the allergy is a direct result of eating the nut but this could not be further from the truth.  Yes, you need to avoid eating them if you are having an allergic reaction to them but it is not the nuts that are causing the symptoms that you are experiencing, it is your own body.

The reason that this is the case is because that there are very specific proteins that are in nuts which do not exist in any other type of food.  If we have a nut allergy, our body actually considers these proteins to be a foreign invader that is dangerous.  In an effort to ward off this protein, our body will produce antibodies in order to fight them away.  Whenever it recognizes that this protein is in our system, it will also dump an extreme amount of histamine into our body in order to counteract its effects.

It is this histamine that is causing the symptoms that we are experiencing.

Learn more infos about nut allergies in the full article.