People with an insect allergy also have an increased risk of having too many mastocytes in the body. These are cells that cause an allergic reaction. As a result, such people also have an increased risk of developing a severe
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People can also have allergic reactions in the absence of grass or birch pollen. Researchers in Tübingen, Germany discovered that sleep plays an important role in this phenomenon.
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Basically the same processes occur with an allergy as in a normal immune response. The immune system identifies an intruder as dangerous and throws various mechanisms into gear in order to get rid of the troublemaker. Unlike with a ‘real’
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