Once allergic, always allergic?
Allergic symptoms often set in between ages 15 and 25. Certain allergies, such as hay fever, are seasonal. Non-seasonal allergies, such as food and pet and house dust mite allergy, can affect you all year round. Allergic symptoms often diminish with age. Once you have passed the age of 40, the complaints often grow less severe. Furthermore, there are now many more treatments for allergic symptoms. Increasingly effective treatments are developed that help alleviate allergic symptoms significantly, immunotherapy being a case in point. This method is designed to reduce or even eliminate hypersensitivity. You can read more about immunotherapy in the next chapter (treatment).

