How does our immune system identify between medicine or bacteria/viruses/infection/etc that gets into our body and decides the former can go through while the latter can’t? Do they ever misidentify?

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How does our immune system identify between medicine or bacteria/viruses/infection/etc that gets into our body and decides the former can go through while the latter can’t? Do they ever misidentify?

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A lot of medicines act by mimicking chemicals that our bodies naturally produce, so the immune system isn’t bothered by them.

But misidentification definitely can happen. That’s basically the definition of an “allergy”.

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