• Question: What causes anaphylactic shock when a bee stings my mum?

    Asked by anon-224266 to Scott on 13 Nov 2019.
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      Scott Dwyer answered on 13 Nov 2019: last edited 13 Nov 2019 1:56 pm

      When someone gets stung by a bee, they inject venom into you, normally this causes an immune response (where you swell, it might turn a little bit red etc), they do this to defend themselves and the colony.

      Some people experience a heightened immune response, which means they react to the foreign particle more than other people, and produce too much histamine to that so that can cause an anaphylactic shock.

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