How can we die caused by allergy (shocks)? Isn’t it a kind of suicide by the body?
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Your immune system is one of the most complicated things in the known universe. With complexity comes flaws, especially in a system designed by blind, random experimentation of nature.
If you have an allergy, your immune system senses benign proteins from peanut, pollen, fish, egg etc etc as being a harmful invader. It tries to stop the spread and kill it by flooding the area with fluids and white blood cells. If the allergy is severe, the system goes into a feedback loop where that inflammatory response just never stops without outside intervention.
Your body is doing everything it can to protect you, but doesn’t have the ability to know that it is killing you.
In essence, yes , your body kills itself.
allergens cause your body to react, thinking its something dangerous. These overreactions can be small things such as coughing ora bit swelling, or extreme reactions that can have lethal consequences.
Its just a flaw in your immune system. Its such a complex thing and every now and then a human is born with a flaw in his immune system that causes an allerg
It’s an immune system overreaction. This doesn’t just happen with allergens. It can happen with viruses, too. This is one way that the 1918 flu killed people, and it is one way that Covid kills people.
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