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Well, not necessarily - immune responses to infection can also be excessive and harmful, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_release_syndrome?wprov=sfla1 …
Immune reactions to infections are adapted to being temporary in general, in case you wanted an adaptational perspective on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflammation … (see the resolution to inflammation section)
totally see the point for allergies and cytokine storm, but i believe anti-inflammatory drugs are used for a much larger variety of diseases, e.g. alzheimer's and parkinson's iirc?
Ohh. I'm not sure why that is either. It's thought that inflammation is involved in causing Alzheimer's / Parkinson's but IIRC some anti-inflammatory drugs are effective for them without us understanding the mechanisms behind why.
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