Anyone find their hayfever suddenly disappeared after giving up breastfeeding?

I had hayfever for the last 5 years, but suddenly the last 10 days it's gone. I've had it badly this year already, for most of March and the start of April, I live in London where there's micro-climate, it's much warmer than the rest of the country and the flowers started coming out even in February.

I haven't changed anything in my diet. The only thing I have done is give up breast-feeding my 1 year old baby. It was like the moment I stopped that, my hayfever has gone.

Do you think it has truly gone, has anyone else been symptom free for the last 10 days? Or is this just me?

It's completely weird. I know when you breastfeed you make more antibodies for the baby as their immune system doesn't mature and become fully active until around the age of 7. So it helps protect them.

And I think antibodies are responsible for hayfever (an incorrect autoimmune response to pollen).

Well anyway, thanks for reading, be curious to hear from anyone else who's found that suddenly an allergy has disappeared.

My life-long excema disappeared during my first pregnancy and never returned. I've never heard a rational explanation for why this would be. People always use the generic "pregnancy hormones" as a reason for everything, but which hormones? How does it affect that change?

I have read that babies who are breastfed have lesser instance of excema (as well as allergies) than those who are not. This was definately a motivation for me to breastfeed, and incidentally neither of my children have had excema. But something changed in me that was directly pregnancy related - not breastfeeding related - and I still don't know what happened. It was nice though. :)

I actually had the opposite problem. While I was pregnant, my allergies were worse, but while I was breast-feeding they weren't so bad, but I had to give it up when she was 6 months old, and I've been sick ever since! I don't know if there's been a shift in the amount of pollen or if it really is somehow related to the breastfeeding, but I'd be interested to find out.

I'm allergic to tree pollen. This time of year is miserable for me. When I was pregnant and breastfeeding all of my allergies and some other conditions (like irritable bowel syndrome) just went away. Once my daughter was weaned everything came back and hit me hard within a month. I guess mother nature wants me to nurse forever.

When I stopped breastfeeding last year I lost lots of weight but it didnt affect my allergies ....I did get funny looks though the sight of a thirty four year old hanging off his mommy kinda makes people sick
Sorry I know