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  • davidgro@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Yeah, but both are “the immune system attacking something it shouldn’t”, so I wonder if the same mechanism can desensitize it to allergens.
    The article mentioned trails for celiac which although it says is autoimmune, at least involves a foreign substance

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      The article explains it as tagging your own cells in your body with a marker that makes the immune system ignore them. Doesn’t seem like a foreign body encountered sporadically would work. Allergies and autoimmune (like CL IV celiac) are different classifications of hypersensitivity with different mediating mechanisms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersensitivity