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Vostie and Crowley ~I can’t explain this very well, but I’m on four daily doses of OTC antihistamines (Pepcid, Zyrtec and xyzal) and that seems to help my congestion and drippy nose. I’m also trying to follow a low histamine diet, which isn’t easy because some of the foods I eat regularly and consider healthy are NOT! Spinach, tomatoes, the cheeses you mentioned, bananas, etc, all apparently activate histamines in our system, whether or not we test as allergic to them. There is a lot of info about histamines and diet online. I think the drugs and cutting back on histamine-heavy foods is helping. But giving up spinach?! Hard! (I used to eat a lot of it…cause it is good for us, right?