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      1 year 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

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      Is there a fundamental difference between the two? The way I understand it, autoimmune disorders are often basically an allergy to yourself