RE: Why do we get allergies?

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Why do we get allergies?

in science •  7 years ago 

This is somewhat true. Being exposed to germs is not necessarily a bad thing, it helps to build up some adaptive immunity to pathogens.

Our lack of exposure to infectious agents is thought to be the cause of autoimmunity (which I discussed in a previous article), and is known as the hygiene hypothesis.

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