Can You Develop Food Allergies at Any Age?

Yes. Preliminary data from a large, new national study that is currently under review suggests that nearly 52 percent of American adults with a reported food allergy developed one or more food allergies after age 18.

An estimated 5 percent of adults in the United States have a food allergy, compared with about 8 percent of children. And while some children outgrow allergies — usually those to milk, eggs and wheat — many retain their allergies through adulthood.

By: Dr. Ruchi Gupta, a food allergy researcher at the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Source:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/well/eat/can-you-develop-food-allergies-at-any-age.html