Food Intolerances

Several several years ago, I began to suffer from stuffy nose and headaches as a result of foods that I was eating and wine and beer. I had no idea what was causing this and no doctors could explain it to me. Slowly during a four or five year period, I was able to find a few mentions on the Internet relating to histamine intolerance. Then I found this app! It was a life changer for me. I was able to avoid pretty much all foods that caused the symptoms. I never would have suspected some of them as a problem, like something as common as pepper!! But I also kept searching for information regarding causation. One say I asked Google whether NSAIDs and decongestants harm gut bacteria. The answer was YES!!! I immediately stopped taking them and slowly my histamine intolerance went away. Today I don’t have any of the histamine intolerance symptoms. This app made my histamine intolerance manageable while I found the cause of my problems and cured my gut!

It’s a great app as far as the layout and details it provides. I’ve only been using it a few days and already I’ve poisoned myself and wasted money in food I can’t eat. I currently and in the weeds as far as SIBO and histamine intolerance goes. I checked figs in the app and got the green light. I ate 4 and had a severe reaction. After looking online I found figs are very high fodmop for their fructose content, one of the highest fruits actually. Which makes sense when I think about it, but I was just following the app. We’ll see how it goes, although now I feel I need to cross reference everything it gives me, which sort of defeats the purpose. Its a bummer to have this happen right at the beginning of using it! Completely broke my confidence and I’m sure it’s most accurate with the info. Just bad luck and really bad autoimmune response as a result.

They did another update and added more foods but they list corn, popcorn and the like as safe and according to everything I have read, corn is one of the worst foods for salicylate . Also figs are listed as safe but I have read they are moderately high in salicylate. New updates have made some foods high in salicylates as green. Misleading This app is wonderful! Every update has been wonderful but notice a few foods missing. One is plain corn and corn on the cob. They have corn salad......don't even know what that is. Greens (collards, turnip etc) missing as well. I would also like information on medicinal herbs like milk thistle, ashwagandha, St. John's Wort etc. I find conflicting information on the web. Every food intolerance imaginable is listed as well as other allergies. Great app.