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I Get Swollen When I Eat Certain Foods. It Makes My Dizzy. Why?

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Channel: CanXida · 2018 · Education

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Greetings. Greetings. Greeting. People always ask me why I say, "Greetings." I don't know why I always say, "Greetings." I just said it again. Thanks for tuning in. Eric Bakker, naturopath. Question, "I get swollen when I eat certain foods. It makes me dizzy. Why does it make me dizzy? And why ... Blah, blah, blah." Well, many reactions can happen with different types of foods. I get funny reactions when I eat kiwi fruit, all right? I can eat a kiwi fruit. 

But if I try and eat one kiwi fruit every day, after about a week I start getting this sensation in my mouth like I've had a porcupine in my mouth. I get prickling sensations around, tingling sensations around the lips. And then if I continue to eat them, I get bad diarrhea.

So I can't tolerate kiwi. I just don't eat them. Well, I do eat them, but I eat them far and few between. Why I got those sensations is my immune system reacting to the kiwi fruit. There is a compound in kiwi fruit that can cause big problems with people. 

Mangoes are the same. Mangoes and kiwi are fruits that can be quite strong with people orally. But the swelling could well come from an inappropriate histamine reaction. So in this particular situation, I'd be checking out if I was histapenic, or histadelic. If I had too much histamine in the body, or not enough histamine. All right?

You may wanna talk to your naturopath about this, about maybe going further. And there are particular types of nutrients you can take that improve histamine function as well. I'm pretty sure I've created some videos regarding histamine. 

Do I'd like you to go and check those out. Dizziness almost certainly sounds like an immune system issue here. So I would also check out to see if I had leaky gut syndrome. And I think this person has got leaky gut syndrome. Especially if they react to foods within about an hour, one and a half hours. Very much so.

Antibiotics. Did you take antibiotics within the last four or five years? Have you got a problem with beneficial bacteria? Have you got a problem with your adrenal glands prohibiting you from having a balanced cortisol level? Cortisol has a profound influence on many aspects of immunity. 

And this could quickly up-regulate and down-regulate a response to food in my opinion as well. So what I'm trying to say here is, you need to get tested to find out where these responses are coming from. 

So a SIBO breath test might be a good one for you. A food allergy test. But the comprehensive stool analysis, three samples, three concurrent days, is the gold standard in this case. That's the first test you do. You get the gut right, and then see what happens to this swelling and these immuno-appropriate reactions. Look at the foods also with the highest histamine content like cheeses, and certain types of foods like that. Take those out the diet and see if that makes a difference. May be quite a massive difference. 

I'm always interested to know of the level of beneficial bacteria is like when I get these kind of comments of patients. And generally when I look at the stool test, I find that the Lactobacillus is rock-bottom. Give it a go. Do some testing. You might be surprised what you find. Thank you for the question.

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