How does your body decide how much something hurts? Why might skinning your elbow, banging it into a wall, or getting stung there by a bee all hurt different amounts if none of them leave lasting damage and are in the same place?
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To add to what people have said:
While those injuries don’t leave permanent damage, they all have bring risks to your body and your body “wants” you to protect those injuries in different ways and to prevent them from happening again.
It’s important to be aware of the sting of a grazed elbow so you don’t let things which might cause infection come into contact with it. It’s important to avoid banging your bruises which could cause or worsen internal bleeding. And it’s important to flee from the bee before its friends come for you (also the open wound caused by the stinger can get infected so you don’t want to touch it to things, and the bee venom is designed in part to cause a painful histamine reaction to turn you away from the hive.)
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