Interesting update on Marion‘s swollen hands
Posted a picture of her hands yesterday after getting bitten by some bugs on the beach.
She was doing research on histamine activation, and discovered something very interesting, dietary related:
We came across information about kimchi and fermented foods causing high histamine levels. Apparently your “mast cells become primed” for a histamine response.
She recently started consuming a lot of kimchi (no, it doesn’t cause a lot of gas. I lost a bet on that one :-)
But she is thinking now that the consumption of kimchi exacerbated the reaction to the bug bites.
Paraphrasing from her summary somewhat: “kimchi is a fermented food that contains substantial amounts of histamine. When you eat it, you are ingesting histamine that may be absorbed. If you consume enough, your overall histamine burden may be temporarily higher. Then, if you get a bug bite, your body produces its own histamine, thus exacerbating the reaction”.
Now you know!
Her hands still look like a little fat kids, but they are much better.