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Hypersensitivity
Hypersensitivity is a clinical term in which a normally tolerable trigger results in a larger than expected response. Examples include emotional responses to social situations, or sunburn from average amounts of sunlight that normally do not cause a burn.
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A 41-year old asked:
What are the common types of hypersensitivity reactions?
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A 33-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: Hypersensitivity?
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A 39-year old female asked:
What causes viseral hypersensitivity? What can make it go away?
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A 42-year old asked:
What is the difference between type I hypersensitivity and type ii?
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A 44-year old asked:
Help please? What is the difference between type i hypersensitivity to type ii?
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A member asked:
I have a friend who drank on Friday and is having hypersensitivity reactions in his body?
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A 32-year old male asked:
Intense nerve hypersensitivity to touch. Do tricyclics reduce this? Or do they just attenuate feelings of pain?
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A 33-year old asked:
Hypersensitive to noise. What can I do?
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A 38-year old asked:
What is a type 4 hypersensitivity reaction?
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A 34-year old asked:
What is cytotoxic hypersensitivity (type 2)?
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A 34-year old female asked:
What are the symptoms of visceral hypersensitivity?
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A 36-year old asked:
Possible hearing hypersensitivity. How do I get tested?
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A 47-year old asked:
What does it mean if my friend is hypersensitive to touch?
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A 31-year old asked:
Can you tell me about immunology - hypersensitivity reactions?
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A 31-year old asked:
What is the difference between hypersensitivity and autoimmunity?
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A 35-year old asked:
Are hypersensitivity and allergic reactions synonymous or different?
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A 33-year old asked:
What disorder makes you hypersensitive to insults or imagined insults?
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A 24-year old female asked:
Which among the 4 types of hypersensitivity reaction would you think is the worst?
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A 36-year old female asked:
Would anxiety cause you to have funny vision really hard to explain like hypersensitive or weird ?
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A 40-year old female asked:
I am hypersensitive to all medications or pills. They stay in my system for over 18 hours.Is okay to take children's dosages?
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A 43-year old asked:
Can IV Flagyl cause hypersensitivity?
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A 36-year old asked:
What is acute hypersensitivity pneumonitis?
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A 39-year old asked:
What does a hypersensitive tooth feel like?
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A 47-year old asked:
What can cause hypersensitivity in the leg?
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A 36-year old asked:
What could hypersensitivity to beer indicate?
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A 43-year old asked:
What is causing hypersensitivity pneumonitis?
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A 44-year old asked:
What can cause hypersensitivity in the penis?
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A 38-year old asked:
What does "immune system hypersensitivity" mean?
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A 33-year old asked:
What are the symptoms of peanut hypersensitivity?
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A 46-year old asked:
Im so paranoid, anyone can help me if hypersensitive?
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