Is it trying to fix itself by closing the airways?….Or is it just a reaction and not a defense.
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Anaphylaxis is really dangerous, and probably the most lethal part about it is the amount of narrowing of airways that makes it near impossible to breathe. Inflammation specifically is designed to open up your blood stream to allow things like white blood cells and other types of cells to flow through and repair whatever is causing the problem. There is an issue here, though, in that there are blood vessels in your throat too.
Sometimes your body gets a little too confused and thinks opening up your blood vessels is more important than breathing itself, among other important functions in the body. It will inflame basically every blood vessel so that tons of anti-virus anti-bacterial junk can flow like crazy. So it does this to your throat’s blood vessels as well. Your throat inflames and bloats up so much that you can’t breathe. Blood will flow quite well, though. So really, your body is not trying to “kill” anything bad by closing your airways, it is more of a reaction.
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