#inflammatory response

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Steps of the Inflammatory Response

Damaged tissues release histamine

Histamine increases blood flow

Histamine causes capillaries to leak

More phagocytes and clotting factors are released

Phagocytes engulf bacteria, dead cells, and cellular debris

Platelets seal the wound

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[wobblefloss]

STUFF I DIDN'T KNOW WHEN I WAS STILL ABLED...

Inflammation is domino hell.

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In the before times, I thought inflammation was a hot, puffy spot around an infected wound. If you quizzed me, I'd agree that asthma and bee sting allergies were probably inflammation too: again, big puff. And really, probably enlarged joints from arthritis too, right? Angry body makes swelling.

Freaking... get this. Mast Cells are a part of your immune system and they are linked to a billion hormones and chemical signals for your body, but the ones they're famous for are allergic reactions and inflammation. If they get the right/wrong signals from something: peanut allergy or super-stress deadline or the wrong pollen or getting overheated or flare ups of other medical conditions that stress your body--then the dominoes start to fall.

And depending on how many dominoes get hit with that first reaction? So much inflammation can be triggered. So many other health conditions can flare up because of the way those inflammation hormones interact with other organ systems.

Did you know prolonged mast cell activation can give you full body inflammation?

I did not.

My doctors and I worked through a bunch of my food sensitivities and wow. When I stopped eating foods that upset my mast cells? I lost one quarter of my body mass.

Imagine a human. Chop them into four equal bits. Throw one of those chunks away. That was me. Yeeting approximately a whole leg-and-buttock-worth of angry, swollen, water-retaining me-meat. All inflammation. All over-reactive mast cell mess.

I hadn't realized I was swollen. I just thought that was my shape in life. It had been that way for years. Why would body mass be a symptom? Haha. Inflammation.

This isn't a weight loss thing. I was trying to stop hitting all the mass cell symptom dominoes. Numbness and heart palpitations and sweats and dizziness and shortness of breath and a bunch of other incapacitating things like that were happening every time I ate.

Those reactions were getting more intense as my mast cells got futher out of whack. Which caused more inflammation... which triggered migraines... which triggered more mast cell inflammation... which set off body aches and POTS flare ups (circulatory issue)... so more mast cells got into the act... and on and on and on. It became a self-perpetuating loop of horrible, horrible dominoes.

So, I guess this is a heads up that "allergies" aren't just dramatic inflammation puff ups like asthma and anaphylaxis. Sometimes they're ongoing, low-grade irritation that can snowball and set off other issues.

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>>>Because I mentioned food and weight and those are complicated topics for people--please note, even if I eat off a 100% friendly menu, it doesn't stop other things from kicking off mast cell reactions. Food control is not the silver bullet magic cure!! Stress, heat, exercise, other conditions flaring--I'm still learning my triggers. Yes, having fewer irritations means more clear-headed days, less head and body aches, no more after-dinner-face-numbness, and less inflammation. This is good progress! But I also needed medicines. And I would never have correctly selected my safe foods list on my own. If you do need this kind of help, please work with a doctor. This stuff was not intuitive in the slightest and is very specific for each person.

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And if you encounter someone with food sensitivities, believe them and cut them some slack. The safe food list is weird sometimes.

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Seems like something we should all know.

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[thebirdandhersong]

well mark that down as situation 2938489 that I don't know how to handle

[cassianandfenrysaremyboyos]

I'm sorry but this just pisses me off (Not Hunt obviously, but Bryce)

Bryce rant incoming which you can just ignore and I'll probably delete later

But Bryce just puts all the blame on the Asteri. And yes ultimately they are to blame in the larger sense of things. But Bryce plays a direct role in leading them down the path that results in Hunt, Ruhn and Baxian being caught. It was her need to find out Danika's secrets with no thought to the consequences, her idea to go to the Eternal City. And she takes NO personal responsibility for it at all!

Hunt is blaming himself for everything that's happened. Even when it's not his fault at all. When we're in his pov he's constantly drowning in guilt, thinking about how he should of done more, he should of tried harder, he should of been better, how it's all his fault this happened and that his friends suffered.

And then Bryce does none of that. When we're in her pov she doesn't really show any major guilt. I can't think of any times when she blames herself like Hunt does. And I'm not saying she should be wracked with guilt. But a normal person, a good person, will usually feel bad and will feel guilty and blame themselves to some degree when something bad happens and people they care about are hurt, regardless of how big or small they're involvement is, or even if they're not at fault at all, case in point Hunt being wracked with guilt even when it's not his fault.

And to make it worse she acknowledges that Hunt warned them, warned her. But that she disregarded it and would of done it no matter what.

And then she has the audicity to say she doesn't regret it. And she thought they were on the same page. ON THE SAME PAGE!!?? Hunt made it clear in hosab that he didn't want to go down this road again, that he didn't want to get involved. YOU just didn't listen Bryce. And yeah Hunt's an adult, he can make his own decisions and he could of said no and not gone. But of course, OF COURSE!! he wasn't going to let Bryce go down that road alone, because he loves her, and doesn't want anything to happen to her, and wants to protect, so of course he would never desert her. But that doesn't mean he wanted to do it!

For Bryce to be that unaware of Hunt's feelings, when he explicitly stated them. For her to be that disconnected from her mate's feelings that she's surprised that he wasn't really on board is kinda unfathomable to me. Just that complete lack of awareness really does make her look quite selfish/self centered.

Anyway sorry, this post is a mess but I just had to vent

And then when Hunt mentions the consequences he and his friends faced, Bryce makes it about her pain. She's hurt that Hunt mentioned that they suffered. And the worst part is, Hunt then regret's it, he regrets saying something that hurts Bryce, because he cares about her and feelings. And she does not consider his feelings to the same degree

It just pisses me off

[oscill4te]

i worry about needing benadryl to sleep every night bc fears of dementia which seems to run in the family (i havent read the studies yet but the mere thought it scary. Idk). but at the same time not sleeping properly probably would catch up with me in its own ugly way, so that thought comforts me. at least im sleeping

[craycraybluejay]

i can't believe you would do that shit to your own LITTLE BROTHER, what the fuck is wrong with you? and you're bragging about it too? you need to be held down and raped since you think it's so fucking fun to do to other people. kill yourself

damn anon this one got me fanning myself a bit. the aggressive tone, the suibait, the perfect blend of loaded accusation and guilt trip and judgement. i would frame this can i frame this. god the fkn 'you should be raped' the way you executed that line. fanning myself more than a bit. whoever sent this you should maybe get a medal or a trophy.

[ss-shitstorm]

Just found out grief can straight up kill you actually so I'm goin back 2 therapy bc I want to die a bad bitch not a sad bitch

[staybeautifulmp3]

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[baltears]

also i know this is a hot take but it’s constantly on my mind whenever i read atla discourse. katara does not start out the series emotionally mature. katara starts out the series parentified and traumatized so that she has learned to replicate the behavior of an adult caretaker as closely as she, a child who is NOT an adult, can. there is a very very large distinction between these two things and without realizing that katara is acting from a space of trauma and playing a relatively rigid and simplistic role as a means of coping, you are imo pretty significantly misreading her character and her situation

[this-is-krikkit]

okay but good omens' third season has to mention tumblr's existence

i don't know how (i actually have a very clear idea how and will probably write smth about this exact idea either way), but i just wanted to say... it has to.

[pending-trans-action-2]

Girl help they're having discourse in my poll's notes

[mippiedreamland]

I wish my mental health, physical health, and finances weren't a "pick two" game kshsjshsjsjsjhd (⁠〒⁠﹏⁠〒⁠)