I know allergies are really common, but I don’t quite understand what’s so bad about pollen, peanuts, etc. that you body would rather shut down your airways entirely than let them enter. What exactly would happen if they did get in?
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It’s a false alarm.
For some people, certain things are basically mistaken for various kinds of bad stuff. Essentially these random things enter your body and pull the fire alarm like a kid pranking his school.
The danger isnt real, but the responce is very, VERY real. Imagine if the fire trucks arrive and the fire chief (your immune system) is just unreasonably ADAMANT that there is a fire and he will stop at nothing to find it. For days on end he keeps calling in more fire engines and school is just straight up cancelled for days, eventually the hoses come on and rooms get cleared out, the library is a pile of mushy papier-mache and the office is waterlogged to hell.
Your immune system once set off will wreak havoc in the absence of an actual target, and in the meantime the real culprit is sneakily stewing in your stomach or your nose, going unnoticed, with their hand constantly yanking on the damn alarm over and over.
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