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What Happens When Your Immune System Overreacts?

It was just shrimp. Or maybe peanuts. Nothing new. Nothing spoiled. But your throat tightens. Your skin burns. Your chest feels heavy. That wasn’t food poisoning. That was your immune system misfiring. It sees danger where there is none. That’s how overreaction begins—through false alarms. You breathe in pollen, and your nose starts defending a…
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Innate vs Adaptive Immunity: Key Differences

Something enters your bodyIt doesn’t knockIt doesn’t wait for permissionIt just arrivesAnd before you even noticeSomething inside you moves It’s fast, instinctive, without memoryThere’s no time for plansOnly actionCells that don’t ask questionsOnly chaseOnly destroy You learn this laterThey call it innate immunity There’s no time for plans They say it’s the first to arriveThe…
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How the Immune System Really Works Inside

Most days, you don’t feel it.You wake up, stretch, move through your morning.No alarms. No pain. No signal.But underneath, something is working.Not loudly, not visibly.Quiet hands, brushing threats away before you even notice. You get a cut. It closes.You sneeze. It passes.You feel tired, then better again.You never stop to ask why.You only notice when…
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What Is Immunology and Why Does It Matter?

Most days, it stays silentNo blinking lights. No alarms.It protects you without asking for applause.But then something changesA scratch becomes an infectionA breath becomes a wheeze You wonder when your body forgot how to defend itselfYou never really knew what it was defendingJust that it didUntil it didn’t Then you hear the wordImmunologyAnd suddenly you…
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What is Pediatric Immunology and Allergy?

The Department of Pediatric Immunology and Allergy is a specialty that deals with the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of immunological, that is, immune system and allergic diseases in children between the ages of 0-18. In addition to many different diseases, immunological tests and HLA typing before transplantation are also performed by the physicians of this…
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Curiosities about the Immunology Department

The immune system protects the human body against external and internal stimuli through a coordinated response of organs, tissues and cells. Immunology deals with immune system diseases and protective immunity. The services offered by the Department of Immunology can be listed as follows: Diagnosis Services Diseases of the immune system sometimes do not present with…
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Which Diseases Does the Department of Immunology Treat?

Allergies occur as a result of reactions to foreign substances in the human body. The science of immunology refers to disorders that target the body’s immune system. Asthma, drug and food allergies are among these diseases and affect people’s lives. Appropriate diagnosis and treatment methods should be developed. This will improve people’s quality of life.…
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