Why Does Pepper Make You Sneeze?

It irritates the mucous membranes.

How Can Someone Be Allergic to Meat?

Meat allergies— which are rare— start in the blood.

Danger: Food Present

Food allergies are on the rise and on the mind.

If it’s congestion that’s bothering you, you may be reacting to the histamines in red wine and not the sulfites. Tolerating white wine more than red would support this, since white contains as many sulfites as red but...

Headaches can be caused from histamines, tannins and of course the alcohol. Natural histamines, especially are found in red wines (because the red wines sits in the must) . With sulfites, tannins and histamines, it can be a...

species of fish that can produce histamines if it becomes too warm. Cooking will not destroy these histamines. Some people may experience an allergic reaction to these histamines while others are unaffected. " Hope that helps...

Food Sensitivity – Food Intolerance: Definition: An unpleasant reaction to food that, unlike a food allergy, does not involve an immune system response or the release of histamine. Source: http

If white wines don’t bother you, then it is surely not sulfites, as it is in all wines, even organic ones. It sounds like you have a histamines reaction. Try taking a Sudafed next time before you drink a red wine and see if...

in the fish flesh and convert the histidines, naturally occurring chemicals in the flesh of the fish, to histamines. When the fish is later eaten, the individual will essentially get an overdose of histamines. Like the biotoxins,...

I was told by a wine maker a long time ago that wines have histamines in them and reds more so than white. He suggested taking an antihistamine. I’ve not had a wine headache since.

Note also that dried shrimp is sometimes used and may be inconspicuous. The histamine response system can detect it, even if the eyes, nose, or tongue can’t.

riesling usually has a hefty dose of sulfites added to it throughout the winemaking process to minimize oxidation and bacterial spoilage. but your symptoms sound more like a histamine reaction than a sulfite sensitivity, which is...

My brother is allergic to something in the aging process of wine. We narrowed it down to whites being drinkable (he’s also allergic to the histamines in reds) but even with whites he wa or miss with having an allergic...

this may be caused by histamines rather than the more often blamed sulfites. But there are also people with allergy to sulfites who react negatively in varying ways. And sulfites MAY related to headache in spite of the academic...

, meaning raised red welts or bumps? Specifically, these are symptoms of an allergic reaction, but to what I cannot tell you. Sulfites in wine have been ruled out as causing allergic reactions (sulfites, period, do not cause...