# Growing out of allergies/allergies to tofu **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 12, 1999, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-out-of-allergies-allergies-to-tofu/11956 "1999-12-12T21:40:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Maelro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@Maelro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maelro)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 1999, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-out-of-allergies-allergies-to-tofu/11956/1 "1999-12-12T21:40:00Z")
Is it possibible for someone to grow out of an allergy to tofu? I was allergic (instantaneous rash, sever itching) when I first tried it in 1st grade. I’m now 19, and I’m hoping that I’ve grown out of it. * * * “If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same.” Kipling ---
**Author:** ![Lucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 1999, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-out-of-allergies-allergies-to-tofu/11956/2 "1999-12-12T21:44:00Z")
I don’t know specifically about tofu, but I was allergic to several foods as a child but am not as an adult. Maybe my ‘allergy’ to tomatoes was psychosomatic 😉 * * * “I should not take bribes and Minister Bal Bahadur KC should not do so either. But if clerks take a bribe of Rs 50-60 after a hard day’s work, it is not an issue.” ----Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Current Prime Minister of Nepal ---
**Author:** ![Sylence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 1999, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-out-of-allergies-allergies-to-tofu/11956/3 "1999-12-12T23:16:00Z")
I don’t know if it’s possible to grow out of an allergy, but GOD I hate tofu and anything else that involves soybeans. At work they started using a soy-based ink in the printers and now every time I pick up a document my nose stuffs up and my eyes get red. I can’t breathe, I can’t see, and when I blame it on the ink everyone acts like I’m an idiot because you “can’t be allergic to soybeans.” Ugh. – Sylence * * * I don’t have an evil side. Just a really, really apathetic one. ---
**Author:** ![Kakkerlak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bb73d2/32.png) [@Kakkerlak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kakkerlak)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-out-of-allergies-allergies-to-tofu/11956/4 "1999-12-13T02:13:00Z")
Most towns have allergists who can test for a food allergy without making you sick. A local naturopathic allergist I thought was full of crap with his electrodes and non-FDA-approved software went ahead and diagnosed my father’s allergy to coffee… years worth of itchy rashes gone , but now no mocha. I know I was allergic to beestings as a kid, but I’ve been stung by a variety of bees and wasps as an adult with nothing more than local swelling and discomfort. ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-out-of-allergies-allergies-to-tofu/11956/5 "1999-12-13T02:26:00Z")
I don’t know about growing out of allergies, I’d imagine it’s possible; I seem to have grown INTO an allergy. A few years ago, on a few occasions, I suddenly got sick for seemingly no reason. After about the third time, I realized that each time I had eaten fish. A while later I tried to get scientific about it, set aside a night when I had nothing to do, and ate some fish. It was horrible–throwing up every 15 minutes, my temperature dropped really low; it went on for hours. I loved fish and really miss it now. I told myself at the time, “Never Again!”, but one of these days I may actually make another attempt, just to see if anything’s changed.