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Alleviating Allergies

5 Live Science Podcast

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The Importance of Mass Cells in Allergy

The arm of the immune response associated with allergy is particularly good at dealing with big parasitic worms and any kind of pathogen that sits outside our cells. Why does it go wrong? And they become pro-allergy then? Ah, that's the $10 billion question. We don't fully know the answer to that, but part of it is all in our genes. Some people are genetically more likely to develop analogy. The other thing is that our world is changing and the things around us are changing. So climate change is changing how long and how intense, for example, the pollen seasons are. That has a real impact on us. It can make the severity of your symptoms much,

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