Why would I suddenly get allergies?
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Some people allergies can trigger later in life. Or it can always been there but it didn't seem to bother you as much. Whatever maybe causing the problem try to make a note of it so you can be what you think the allergy is and if you can (or cannot avoid contact with it.) Hope this helps.
summer?
polluted air?
global warming?
idk =)
these things sometimes wait years to show up in us...benedril helps alot..all of a sudden this year I am allergic to misquitos and swell up like a pumpkin and I am old they just come and we have to deal with it
I don't know but that's happened to me too. At first I didn't have them, then had them for about 4 years, and now I don't anymore. Who knows why it happens??
I developed allergies as an adult. Apparently the immune system just gets wacky and starts attacking things are are actually harmless.
Have you moved? Some areas seem to be worse for allergies for certain people.
After the hurricanes a few years ago, I started having problems. I'm allergic to molds, and our office had mold from water damage.
If you want to know for certain, get a skin test at an allergist's office. It doesn't take long, and then you can start taking measures to reduce your environmental exposure.
Also, allergy shots can help.
Loratidine is available over the counter and it isn't too expensive to take daily if you buy it in bulk.
Sometimes it happens. Im no doctor but anyone can "suddenly" become allergic to something later in life. I had dogs my whole life, I moved from home and a month later i coundn't be near ANY dog. Or you could just be sensitive to certain things in certain weather.
There are some beliefs that allergies are reactions to experience of life. Typically, undesirable experiences where associations of the experience and the resulting reaction are incorrectly associated.
An example of what I mean is: A young girl visited a friend whose parents started arguing while she was their. Since in her normal home life she never experienced this, she reacted in a negative way and developed symptoms. However as this arguing was going on the young girl was holding a cat, like a security blanket, something to hold onto. The arguing parents when noticing the symptoms of the child suggested(incorrectly), that the young girl was allergic to cats. She then would have this same reaction whenever she was in contact with cats.
The parents of the young girl being quite wise asked her to explain what happened. After the girl explained her experience and the parents then corrected her understanding that her reaction was to the adults arguing and not to contact with the cat, her allergies to cats went away and she returned to normal(no allergies).
Your immune system is designed to attack foreign substances in your body. However, if your immune system attacked every single foreign substance that entered your body, you'd never be able to eat anything or breathe. So the immune system, upon encountering a foreign substance, has to decide: is this substance dangerous (should I attack it) or not (let it go)? Usually, the immune system does a good job distinguising between the two, but sometimes it gets confused and decides to attack something non-dangerous (such as pollen or cat dander)--this is an allergy. You can develop allergies you've never had before for many many reasons--maybe the pollen you're breathing this year is slightly different from the pollen you've previously breathed before, maybe your lungs have been sensitized by some kind of air pollutant so that the pollen causes inflammation in your already irritated lung. Your immune system changes as you age, that could be a factor. Maybe you got some new virus or infection that your body fought off successfully (maybe you never even got sick!), but that infectious agent bears a structural similarily to an allergen (say, cat dander), so now all the white blood cells that reacted against the infection, cross-react with the dander. Really, there could be thousands of reasons. On the bright side, allergies can also go away as suddenly as they arrived--let's hope this happens for you!
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