[ELI5] Why can we gain resistances to medicine, alcohol, poison, etc. but not so much for allergies or pollutants?

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[ELI5] Why can we gain resistances to medicine, alcohol, poison, etc. but not so much for allergies or pollutants?

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medicine and alcohol work on the receptor system and the receptor system has a mechanic called tollerance. poison is a bit different because no poison is the same.

Allergies are related to food or stuff in the air. The air stuff is mostly also food related.

You can stop an allergie by not eating or drinking the food or not being exposed to the pollen or whatever the allergy is. Allergie is basically an auto immune reaction.

So its very different.