eli5: How does the body decide what to be allergic to and how severe the reaction will be?

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Humans can have allergic reactions to a crazy number of things, from understandable like bee venom, to random like little Timmy eating peanut butter at the next table over could kill you, to the counterintuitive like aquagenic urticaria (getting splashed with water makes you break out in hives). What’s in charge of that and how are reactions like anaphylaxis supposed to help?

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Two brilliant brightly coloured videos for the five year old in all of us

[how the immune system works](https://youtu.be/lXfEK8G8CUI)

[you are immune against everything!](https://youtu.be/LmpuerlbJu0)

Enjoy! (I bought the book for my nephew and it’s wild!)

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