Allergies can definitely affect your memory. If you feel like you\u2019re becoming senile at age 20, then it could be an allergy<\/a> symptom.<\/p>\n I have a better memory now, since eliminating allergens, than I did when I was 20, even though many years have passes since then.<\/p>\n There are two aspects to memory: storing the memory and recalling the memory.<\/p>\n There are also two types of memory: short-term memory and long-term memory.<\/p>\n In this article, I speak largely from my own experiences. Your experiences may be different. Allergies may not affect your memory at all, or they may affect your memory in a different way from what is described here.<\/p>\n Imagine this scenario: you\u2019re playing a game with your friends, a variation on football with just three people \u2013 two on one team and one on the other. The goal is for the team of two to cross the goal line, with the third person defending the line.<\/p>\n You rotate partners to keep the game fair. One of the three is invincible, no one can get past him.<\/p>\n So you think of a strategy. You suggest to your friend that he starts running for the goal line, you fake a pass, and then run past the line yourself.<\/p>\n The only trouble is that 10 seconds later when you start play, you forget your own brilliant strategy, and instead of faking a pass, you actually pass the ball to your team mate, and lose again.<\/p>\n That\u2019s exactly what happened to me when I was at university years ago. I used to do dumb things like that all the time, forget the most obvious things.<\/p>\n At the time, I knew something was wrong, but had no idea what it was.<\/p>\n When I cut wheat and gluten<\/a> out of my diet, my memory magically improved.<\/p>\n