What HIT me? Living with Histamine Intolerance: A guide to diagnosis and management of HIT - A patient's point of view Paperback – January 14, 2011

I love/love/love this book, and according to my kindle app on my Ipad, I am only 8% done with it. I am so starved for information in this area that I am devouring it. I don't know why the low stars, but then that is for them to know and me to ignore. I have not been formally diagnosed with Histamine Intolerance, but I gave up 10 vials of blood just yesterday, and hopefully the blood work will tell the story. I do have all of the symptons. It can masquerade as so many things. I had one doctor enter the room with a smile on his face and tell me my blood work came back perfect, and I was in fine shape. My husband and I just looked at each other for a minute, and then my husband ask him," then why does she feel like shi$?" He literally looked up at the ceiling and walked out of the room. My attemp to get glasses over 7 years ago ended with the doctor running all of the tests and telling me that he wasn't sure why, but he couldn't give me a prescription - that something else was going on. I have now seen 7 of the best Opthmalogists in this town who have all told me there is absolutely nothing wrong with my eyes. In fact they say my are in quite good shape for my age. The problem is - I just can't focus, and I have brain fog all of the time. An MRI ruled out any problem with my head. The last opthamologist, who by the way was one that specialized in Neurology, was very kind and told me that he would get to the bottom of this problem. I thanked him and since I was already suspecting what my problem was, thought, "no, you won't - unless you understand histamine intolerance." Which, by the way, not many doctors do, and we live in a town with a jillion good doctors and a teaching hospital connected with a large university.

She explains histamine intolerance and other food allergies clearly and in a personal way that is easy to understand and gives good guidelines on safe foods to eat. Docs should read this book. Well done..a real fog lifter.

Thanks for writing this. After reading your thoughts, I don't think my histamine intolerance is as severe. Probably have more allergies as you mentioned.

The author is not only a journalist who writes for the food-intolerance-network, but also a patient who suffers from histamine intolerance and intestinal fructose intolerance (fructose malabsorbtion). Histamine Intolerance is not yet known very well in the States, so your doctor might not know how to deal with it! In Europe HIT is alread well known.Over the course of 21 chapters, Genny Masterman describes her personal journey from the diagnosis through to her hard daily life. How do I shop for food, what do I have to watch out for when I go out to eat? How do I store my food? Many facts and well-researched information about HIT make this book a really recommended read.The author has also put together some recipes. These are suitable for people with histamine intolerance and mostly also for those with fructose intolerance. The recipes have been tested personally by the author over a period of years, so they should work quite well.

too much extra personal info, i would like the topic to be more down to the facts

Very informative but you can get all the info off the net for free. Kind of contradictive on food lists compared to the recipes in the book.

Very infromative about an issue about which not too many people are knowledgeable

A lot of info. Recipes are in metrics

I found a lot of good info in this book and it has helped me enormously. I get quite frustrated with doctors in this country (UK) because they are so far behind with food intolerance and related illnesses. It is a great read and easy to follow so I recommend it to anyone needing help on this subject.

I have a lot of trouble with Histamine. There is a problem in that recipes given are not really adaptable to the English cookery. There doesn't seem to be much information available as to the histamine contents in food or why certain foods multiples in histamines. It's a mine field at least theses books are a start for me thank you

It turned out that I didn't have this condition after all, but the information in this book is still useful. It's written in a straightforward way and gives you th einfo you need without being scary or melodramatic.

I have been trying to sort out my intolerance problem for years and I think this has helped me a lot. Would recommend to anyone going through problem.

Very interesting I have learnt a massive amount about my potential issues. Just need to convince my GP to refer me for the DAO test!!