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Adding on to the other comment, it's one of the theories for why allergies exist
Each of our antibodies seem to have a specific job, and that allows them to call for the correct response for the type of threat they are dealing with (ex. Fighting one large thing vs many small things, where in the body is it happening, what kind of cells are involved, etc)
Of those, IgE is the one that's tied to allergies. Turns out it's also involved in the response against parasitic worms. Parisitic worm infections aren't as common in many parts of the modern world, while allergies are. So maybe we can treat allergies by studying worm infections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunoglobulin_E
Thank you for sharing this. I had actually listened to an episode of Radiolab that has covered this and, I suppose, forgotten about it.
https://radiolab.org/podcast/91691-sculptors-of-monumental-narrative
I have an autoimmune disease, so now I’m back to doing more reading on the research referenced in the Wikipedia article.