The Acute Immune Inflammation Response

"I felt behind my ear and I had a like a ping pong ball," Sammy Davis Jr. said. "That was my body again, just puffing up when something happened" It's part of your acute immune response: You get dilated blood vessels. The problem is if this keeps going on, even if it drops down to a lower level, if it continues long after it should have stopped, now you've got problems.