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Histamine is both a hormone and a neurotransmitter and it has receptors all throughout the body. There are 4 classes of histamine receptors, named H1, H2, H3, H4.H1 and 2 go to the skin, gut and lungs and give us our classic allergy symptoms. Itchy or painful skin, food allergies, asthma and sinus inflammation. Less well known are that they also go to the heart and the reproductive organs.
This means we can have an allergy heart, an allergic prostate, an allergic uterus. To properly deal with histamine 4 actions must be undertaken. 1- Re-educate the T cells of the immune system not to react to harmless allergens. 2- Suppress the over creation of histamine from the dietary amino acid histidine. 3- Stabilize mast and other cells that release histamine. 4- Increase serum DAO (diamine oxidase), the enzyme responsible for the break down of histamine.