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Can you explain if it's possible to become allergic to something in later life that you were fine with before?

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Dr. Al Hegab answered

Specializes in Allergy and Immunology

Yes, it happens: Not common though, more with drugs, sometimes with foods, something alters the immune response threshold for tolerating a certain element, and the immune system starts to react differently, rather over react to the element that it used to tolerate before

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Answered 2/4/2017

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