ANTIHISTAMINES AND THE BRAIN

Dr. Julie Brown, Carrick trained concussion doctor, board-certified chiropractic neurologist and fellow in traumatic brain injury and rehabilitation. It is almost spring here. In fact, we spring our hours forward this weekend. But it's almost spring, and pollen, histamines start reacting in people. I just want to talk about antihistamines. I can't prescribe these things, and nor do I want to. A histamine ... it's a complex reaction, and one of the things that it does is, it wakes us up. It actually makes it hard to fall asleep. If pollen's everywhere and you're reacting to it, it may be harder for you to sleep at night just because we've now raised cortisol and we're awake. The goal would really be to break down those histamines to a more functional level to where they're not making your brain awake. My reason for this video is regarding antihistamines. Many of them, and I would just do a Google search and/or talk to your doctor about it, or your pharmacist ... many of them are anticholinergic.
That means that their mechanism is that they go up and they dock at the end of a neuron that uses choline as a receptor, and many of our learning and memory neurons require choline. If you're taking antihistamines that are anticholinergic, you're actually blocking your ability to remember things. Imagine if you're a student trying to study for a test or you have to memorize something for your job and you're taking these things. It is making your job that much harder, plus it is not actually breaking down histamines and correcting the problem. There are other approaches to it, and you can have different genes, different exposures that create these cycles for histamine, and how they need to be broken down can be different for everybody. Make sure you talk to your doctor about your concerns and, honestly, hop on Google for that. Not for all of it, but just to get an idea to be able to have the conversation with your doctor. If you'd like to know more about our office, website below.
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[CompleteKCanada]

Unfortunately I have been taking benadryl for probably 20 yrs, numerous times a week. For many yrs it was numerous times a day. I now have a horrible memory and wonder if thats maybe the reason

[cynthiacrawford]

I throw up without my sinus meds.And it doesn't stop til I take meds.

[ashithporoli]

But how can someone with allergic live without taking antihistamines, it's reduce the quality of life.

[lnfernalGamingYT]

But if I don’t take it I sneeze the whole day and that will stop me from studying

[GreggF]

I’m wondering if there’s permanent damage if I’m taking them as far as memory goes or if you stop taking them your memory comes back to a normal level

[zonairraja]

can you do a video on how to break down histamines and approaches possible for it? would be great help

[shelly]

So what about people with MCAS who rely on lots of H1s and H2s on a daily basis?

[cynthiacrawford]

And I cant afford a doctor.Even when I have insurance they drop me if I use it.Or refuse to cover anything.So why even buy it?