Digestive Allergies
While we are all familiar with the most common allergies like hay fever and allergic reactions to pets, our body can also produce an excessive histamine response internally, like in our stomach or elsewhere along our digestive tract.
Anytime our immune response to a usually harmless environmental substance is extreme, we are experiencing an allergic reaction. So if a substance (hopefully a food item) enters your stomach and soon thereafter triggers your body to produce excessive inflammatory mediators (histamines), you are experiencing an internal allergic reaction.
For example, individuals prone to wheat intolerance symptoms may experience hives and sharp pains soon after ingesting a common wheat-containing food. In many or most cases, a wheat allergic response (not a gluten intolerance) will simultaneously manifest itself externally.
But sometimes it doesn’t, which is why if you experience discomfort soon after consuming specific foods, you should visit your allergist and have him conduct an allergy test for the primary ingredients of those foods.
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