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New app for food intolerance sufferers

Interview with the developers of the new food intolerance app A few months ago a food intolerance app caught the attention of the Histamine Intolerance Awareness Team. It seems to be quite helpful to quite a lot of people as far as we can see. So I wanted to know more about it, and asked …

BBC 5 Live – Summary of item on allergy and food intolerance

On March 20th the mid-day BBC 5Live radio broadcast, as part of their medical program, an informative item on allergies and food intolerances, lasting about 10 minutes. For those of you who live abroad and are thus unable to hear the BBC podcast, here is a summary of what was said: Taking part were the …

The two degradation pathways for histamine

Chronic form of histamine intolerance (type HNMT) The description of this particular form of this medical condition is based on the author’s theoretical deliberations, interpretations and model predictions and is supported by a growing number of individual case reports. This is primarily an hypothesis and not established scientific data. Summary: Two degradation pathways for histamine …

When eating becomes a science… .

Here is an article published by the Wiener Zeitung (Viennese daily paper) in Austria. It raises several points I thought would be interesting to read and could be very helpful for others, so here is the translation. When someone suffers from one or more food intolerances eating often becomes a science “I would rather have …

Life after the Daily Mail article

Since the Daily Mail article was published, much has happened and there has been a steady flow of e-mails coming in via the contact page. Sandwiched between my normal work schedule, I try to answer as many e-mails as possible as soon as possible. Sometimes however, it can take a little while because I am …

Book out now!

The book “What HIT me? Living with Histamine Intolerance: A guide to diagnosis and management of HIT – A patients point of view” is now available on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de! If you don’t want to wait for the paperback you can download the Kindle Edition, which can also be read on the PC, Mac, …

What HIT me? Living with Histamine Intolerance

Book out soon! What HIT me? Living with Histamine Intolerance A guide to diagnosis and management of HIT A patient’s point of view Scientists claim that millions are affected by unidentified health issues. One of the reasons can be Histamine Intolerance (HIT). After successfully coming to terms with HIT author Genny Masterman has written a …

Histamine Intolerance rarely rides the range alone

I have been watching the goings on both off-line and on-line for a while now, and would like to clear up one misconception… maybe two. There is a worrying development in that people are only looking at the set of symptoms that have been made available by different sources (including the one on the histamineintolerance.org.uk …