Can you cause a food intolerance?

[MonkeyJungleConga]

If you don't eat a food for a while can you develop an intolerance for it?

yes, probably, esp in case of foods that are known to cause intolernace, eg containing proteins that the body could potentially recognise as "foreign"

I don't know a great deal about it, but the book I'm reading atm says you are likely to develop an intolerance to a food you have often, rather than seldom. What food are you thinking of?

Dairy. Specifically butter.

Then again, you can also get an intolerance if you overeat a particular type of food (e.g. toast, toast, and maybe some more toast. At every meal, say when you were in your 20s... not that I would know, of course.)

If you're intolerant to an ingredient in the butter, you could have been having that ingredient frequently iyswim.

well.. this kind of happened to me

i stopped eating egg and dairy when ds2 was tiny as it affected him.
he is now nearly 4 and not breastfeeding any longer and i still can't eat either, or only in very small quantities or it makes me ill

but, i do wonder if i have always had an intolerance and my body had just grown used to me consuming these things. I was just like ds2 as a baby... cried ALL the time, all the symptoms of an intoerlance but it was never picked up .
even as an adult I used to feel sick and bloated a lot but never really thought about intolerances.

so i wonder if in my case cutting it out then made it come back worse when i reintroduced it.

If you cut out something you are intolerant of, you feel better, but get used to feeling better, so when you introduce that food again, you really notice the effect it has.

Thanks.