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Why do allergies get worse every time you are exposed to the allergen?
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Memory cells: Every time you are exposed there are memory cells created and when there are more, the recruitment of the inflammatory cells or allergy cells would be more and the reaction is more pronounced or even more violent than the past.
Answered 2/18/2014
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