Is it normal to develop allergies as you age?

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Is it normal that the older I have gotten, I have developed allergic reactions to foods and drinks that I used to ingest? I noticed around the age of 18-21, I haven become lactose intolerant. This year, when I turned 27, I started to have allergic reactions to bananas. This is annoying because I love milk and bananas. One last thing that has started to happen, I have become allergic to my belt buckles. I know I am allergic to silver earrings, but even my belt buckles cause bumps. This allergic reaction also started later in age.

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  • Avant-Garde
    11 years ago

    It could be because you're eating GMO foods and the cows are being GMO corn and other things they shouldn't be eating. I went through a period last year where I was constantly having allergic reactions. Turns out it was caused by eating GMO foods and a severe salt sensitivity caused by a medication I was on at the time. I now eat a 100% organic and salt-free diet (save from natural sodium and sodium citrate) and I'm fine now. It's rare for me to have allergic reactions.

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  • telly34
    11 years ago

    I have had the opposite. When I was a teenager, I had respiratory allergies. They disappeared around when I turned 20. I suppose that it is different for different people :)

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    • PapzBSlim
      11 years ago

      I am happy you have overcome those allergies.

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      • telly34
        11 years ago

        Hopefully you can find some relief from yours :)

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  • PapzBSlim
    11 years ago

    Thank you guys for the feedback.

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  • Failedcasanova
    11 years ago

    It's a medically accepted fact that good allergies can lay latent for years. It's not at all uncommon to sufdenly be allergic to foods. My sister has worked as a nurse for several years and told me of a young man who came in with an apparent allergy to shrimp despite having eaten it regularly over the years.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    It happens. I only have experience with horses on this issue but it happens to humans too. Once there was a horse in training at the barn I worked at... it blew up in hives that opened into sores and oozed (it didn't help that she was just about white). It was odd, she just suddenly developed allergies to EVERYTHING. She had to be sent back to her owners and get injections for over a year for that. Obviously, you're probably not having quite that large of a problem... but just saying, it does happen.

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  • Terence_the_viking
    11 years ago

    Allergies are a tricksy little hobbits they lurk and just when you think they are safe KABLAAM you are hit.

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  • NotFloydzie
    11 years ago

    It's true. All through my life I was able to eat shrimp until I turned 12. Now I can't even be close to them. I used to love eating shrimp, and I would definitely eat them now if I could.

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    • TheSecret
      11 years ago

      lol "all my life... until I turned 12" lol thats not even one fourth of your life.

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      • NotFloydzie
        11 years ago

        I haven't lived that long.

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        • TheSecret
          11 years ago

          Oh haha so you mean all your life so far? gotcha. haha just thought that was kinda funny.

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  • dappled
    11 years ago

    From personal experience only, yes, they come and go. I used to have hay fever that was debilitating (it literally blinded me). Now it's so mild I don't even bother treating it.

    On the other side of the coin, if I eat Smarties or M&Ms, one of the colourings makes it difficult to breathe. Used to be fine with them as a kid. So, yes, they come and go. Multiple people have said the same thing to me about their own allergies.

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  • howaminotmyself
    11 years ago

    Yes, this happens. And sometimes they go away too.

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