I have a ton of allergies, antihistamines don’t work for me at all, so I asked my doctor to prescribe me actual medicine, she said that the antihistamines is all there is, with immunotherapy showing very little success rates and only fitting better for specific allergens.
I am shocked – it’s the 21st century, why can’t we cure allergies? Or at least have a medicine that would completely remove the symptoms?
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Medicine is hard. Bacteria and viruses have evolved with us socially to evade defeat, and figuring out what works is hard to do ethically. For allergies, the issue lies with your immune system. It’s overreacting. Trying to figure out how to get it not to overreact in some situations but to react correctly in others isn’t easy. You could get they immune system to stand down … but you don’t want that, because you need your immune system. The risk is always that you’ll “break” the immune system in some way that will get you killed by your next infection, so you have to tread lightly.
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