Can You Suddenly Become Allergic To Things?

[black_cat51]

that have never affected you before?

[gness]

Oh yes....without a doubt and usually to something you love.... :-(

[ubasses]

Yes and finding out what's causing it can be a nightmare.

[pixie373]

Yes- it happens sometimes with hair dye. Someone uses the same one for years and then suddenly has an allergic reaction.

[anneasquith]

like what ?

[rockyracoon]

Yep, I could take penicillin up until 20 years ago.

[Buenchico]

Definitely.

My friend was in his 60s when he told me that he'd been unable to shift 'a summer cold' for several weeks. He said that it had been making him sneeze a lot, his eyes kept watering and he felt generally lousy. I told him that he'd got hay fever but he totally rejected the idea, on the grounds of "I've gone over 60 years without getting hay fever, so I'm not going to get it now, am I?". I convinced him to go to his doctor, who told him that he'd got hay fever!

[woofgang]

ooooh yes!

[flump1]

Yes, I have. I think without us reading all of the small print on personal hygiene products and the manufactures changing formula, a lot of shampoo and conditioners play havoc with my skin now. Especially my ears!

[LyndaB]

My Nanna became allergic to shellfish when she was nearly 60

[askyourgran]

I have suddenly become allergic to something which is causing me itchy rashes, and dry itchy patches on my face, possibly hairspray but also I've developed a red rash on both my shins too. After two courses of antibiotics and hayfever tablets which I finished two days ago, it has come back again. I've got an appointment now to see a dermatologist in June, they cancelled my appointment for 30 May., just hanging on until they find out what it is.

[beattie819]

My son age 37, favourite meat, beef and lamb. Seen in Harley Street, last January, as local allergy clinics overloaded. Serious, sudden allergy to beef, lamb, pork.He has anti histamine tabs and two epi pens to carry at all times. Also allergic to cats ,horses and house dust mite we, live on a farm.. We now only eat chicken turkey and fish, as I cant bring myself to have anything in the house that might kill him ! I would SO love a big fat juicy ribeye steak.

[Ratty2E]

Yes, like Rocky I became allergic to penicillin a couple of years ago.

[Brinjal]

Developed hay fever at age 50.

[aelmpvw]

i was in my late thirties when i first got hay fever, i also thought that i had got a bad cold

[Sqad]

Yes, for reasons that seem unclear to me, the body can change it's"attitude" to foreign proteins and an allergic state is constructed.

However, I am equally convinced that many signs and symptoms attributed to allergy have little or no connection with the altered bodily state (allergy).

[ferlew]

In my 30's, I developed an extreme allergy to shellfish. Quite debilitating.
Every few years I got such a craving for shellfish that I was prepared to eat them and suffer the consequences. Maybe 3/4 times in 25 years.
8 years ago, I got such a craving, and gave in to it. I was absolutely fine!
Since then I have shellfish on a regular basis.
So not only did I suddenly GET the allergy, it just as suddenly left me. (Thank goodness).

[Peter Pedant]

yes certainly

hypersensitivity requires two exposures in most cases ( xc type 3 - sorry too technical )

think rubber allergy in children and just about everything else

[heathfield]

I remember an article from some years ago by a producer of shellfish. He had travelled the world looking into 'shellfish poisoning', even to the extent of eating rotting mussels, lobster, and oysters - with no ill effects! His conclusion was that for some unknown reason people can suddenly develop a shellfish allergy, in some cases as quickly as overnight. The effects are blamed on shellfish poisoning, when in reality it is this sudden allergy.