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By: Ashley Evitts & Tyler Gangi
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What is an Exaggerated Immune Response?
• An allergic response to foreign antigens such as pollen and dust.
• Hay Fever – an allergic reaction when your immune system responds to foreign material in the air you breathe. – itchy, puffy, watery eyes
and red, stuffy nose signal changes in the seasons
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What is an autoimmune response?
• When antibodies or immune lymphoid cells are produced against the body's own tissues.
• Lupus – a chronic, inflammatory autoimmune disorder where the immune system can’t tell the difference between harmful substances and healthy ones.– Results in an overactive
imune resonse that attacks therwise healthy cells and tissue.
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