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Hecate had brought a tray with a few items on them. Flowers, Shellfish, Strawberries, peanuts and other things. Her large cauldron was seated on it's burner, which was not lit, before her.
She was in a good enough mood. Things were going well in her personal life. She just needed to get used to certain things... that would come with time. She opened the classroom, and waited for her students to file in.
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This wasn't too hard a question, or so Amelia thought. So she raised her hand before saying, "An allergy is basically a sensitivity to something. Your body reacts to the sensitivity." Or that was the gist of it.
" Professor, an allergy is simply defined as a adverse reaction to a food or really anything that yoour body views as poisonous to it. The reaction can be varied from a simple rash to a serious reaction that can cause the body to start to shut down. " Justin said after having raised his hand.
What was an allergy..? Um... It was kind of difficult to explain... She raised her hand. "Is it... an intolerance to certain things? Sometimes a person's body can react badly to a food or something and it gives them swollen cheeks or a rash or a sneeze or something..." Urgh, that was a bad description...
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Sitting towards the back of the class, Lily looked up from her notes as the teacher asked a question. Allergies... Lily thought, that must be why there are a variety of things on the tray. Lily looked at the tray of various common allergens. Raising her hand to answer the question, Lily replied, "An allergy is the body rejecting some object that the immune system sees as foreign and a danger to the body."
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Nessie raised her hand. "A allergy is a person's immune system overreacting when a particular substance enters the body. Obviously it varies from person to person." She said. Wondering what in the world Lafay had in mind for them. Did she have some prejudice against people with allergies? Was she trying to kill students?
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Hmmm...what is an allergy? She knew that it wasn't something fun to deal with, with the way the other students were reacting to the question. Still she wanted to participate so she raised her hand. "Professor I think an allergy is something that doesn't agree with our bodies. Something that is different to each of us." She hoped that she got the point across. Besides she was only 11, and she did try.
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Ari was lucky, not being allergic to anything, but she knew how hard it must be on people who do have such sort of sensitivities. Her favourite uncle was allergic to cats, and every time he visited, Ari had no choice but to hide her Pluto for the day. She didn't know how to define allergies, though. Nevertheless, after a bit of thought, she managed to order her ideas a bit.
'An allergy is a reaction some people have when in the proximity of animals, plants or objects that are normally harmless, because their body had developed a certain sensitivity. These reactions can be things like fever, itchiness or swelling.' the girl replied after having raised her hand.
Lafay seemed peachy today? Odd! She nodded to herself and closed her book as requested, she looked at the students, no! That REALLY needed to be answered Why is Lafay not being.. her normal self?? Change of heart?
Allergies, instead of sitting down and watching the other students answer her hand went up "Allergies are abnormel immune system reations to things that are typically harmless to most people,"
"Allergies are when a person can not eat or smell anything without getting very ill or getting a rash it can also be very dangerous" she hoped she was right
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Amethyst thought on this. She personally wasn't allergic to anything, but Kyle was allergic to honey. She raised her hand high, waiting to be called on. When she was, she cleared her throat making the answer short and simple. "An allergy is hypersensitive disorder of the immune system."
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Alex smirked to himself when Sierra said she was allergic to corn. He vaguely remembered that from growing up with her...he was pretty sure when they were like, three or so, that he'd taken great joy out of the fact that he was better at something than Sierra. Even if that something was eating corn. Now he didn't even like corn so it didn't matter anymore. His allergy was more lethal anyways--Sierra could easily throw flowers in his face if she wanted to annoy him. Throwing corn in Sierra's face would not only make him look stupid but it wouldn't produce the same affect.
Lost in his thoughts, he shook his head and then raised his hand to get back into the class. "Allergic reactions are your body's natural reaction to something that makes it sick. When you come into contact with something you're allergic to, your body goes into defense mode, which is why you have a runny nose, a cough, and stuff like that. Your body is trying to get rid of the thing that's irritating it, like it's a germ," he said. He felt bad for the people with food allergies, they got the worst of it with the blocked wind pipe and all that nasty stuff.
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"Corn..." She said with a nod and pulled an ear of corn from her drawer and placed it on the tray... She had known that...
"Many people have allergies, and those of you who don't have them yet, you may develop some. Close your books and tell me, who knows what an allergy is?" She said and began petting her Mephisto.
Sierra raised her eyebrows at the sight of the ear of corn. It was such a random thing for Professor Lafay to have in her desk, but then again, she likely already knew Sierra was allergic to corn, and then with the lesson being about allergies... Well, it all made sense now.
Sierra happened to glance to the side of her and catch Alex's smirk. Alex never smirked. A smirk to a Hufflepuff was like...a dog meow'ing or a kitten barking. It just made little to no sense. Nevertheless, she knew why he was smirking. She could feel it in her bones--he was smirking at her corn allergy. If she thought she could get away with it, she'd toss her opened bottle of ink at him.
So...what was an allergy? With her hand raised, Sierra said, "Sometimes, our bodies mistake normal, everyday things for intruders in our body. Things like flowers, nuts, or...corn should be harmless to us, but if our body overreacts and thinks it's something we shouldn't be in contact with, we get an allergy." She lowered her hand. "Then we end up with things like rashes or runny noses."
"That's actually an allergy that's easy to develop, even if you'd had shellfish before and were fine." She said and turned to the next student.
"Many people have allergies, and those of you who don't have them yet, you may develop some. Close your books and tell me, who knows what an allergy is?" She said and began petting her Mephisto.
Phew.
Auggie sighed happily as he returned to his chair after looking at the shellfish on display up front. It was very good that Professor Lafay wouldn't make him ingest any of that stuff. He would have really been upset, and that was unlike August Goldstein.
So what were allergies eh? Raising his hand he then spoke up. "Professor Lafay, an allergy is something, depending on the specifics, that the body sort of 'rejects' with its sinuses or other glands. You've already presented us with many different types." There was no use in giving an example.
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Whoa! So many people had allergies! Ira hadn't known that. And some allergies were plain weird, at least that was what Ira thought. And one allergy that Ira would surely hate to have herself was an allergy to chocolate! She could not possibly survive without chocolate!
Then she looked up as Professor Lafay asked a question. What was an allergy? Yeah, Ira knew that..somewhat. She raised her hand up and answered, "Professor, allergy is.. when a person is oversensitive to something, I mean, it is an adverse response of our body to something which is generally harmless.." Because not everyone has an allergy, right?
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Mo raised his hand timidly before speaking in a squeaky voice. "An allergy is when someone's body reacts violently to something... not necessarily dangerous, but when a person who is allergic to something comes into contact with that particular thing their body... sort of goes crazy. It releases chemicals that cause the person to get very ill and sometimes even die," he said. Yeah. He had had this explained to him MILLIONS of times through his life. He had even been urged to keep an epi pen in his pocket at all times, that is how violent HIS body reacted.
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Presley wasn't quite sure, but she did know that she didn't get points by staying silent, so she took a random stab at it. Raising her hand, "Is an allergy an adverse reaction a specific person's body has to something? Like your body trying to fight off something it doesn't think is good for you?" She asked. That sounded reasonable, but it was after all, just a guess.
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Alyssa thought for awhile before she raised her hand and answered."Professor an allergy is something that happens when our body reacts to something or a substance that is normally harmless to somebody else. Like my allergic reaction to cat dander. Not everybody is allergic to it but somehow my body's immune system doesn't like it and is reacting to it.."
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After closing his book Kennedy thought about the question. He had an idea of what it was. He's never really quite put so much thought on it since he wasn't allergic to anything...yet.
He raised his hand. "An allergy is when the body is triggered by a certain substance that causes a person to react to it by sneezing, getting a rash, watery eyes or other symptoms," he said. "Some allergies may also be dangerous." he finished.
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He didn't expect that there will be a lot of people who allergic to nuts like him. Then he nodded his head when Professor Lafay said that nuts allergy can be quite deadly. Yup, he already experienced that. And that's not pretty.
Messer raised his hand before he answered the next question. "Allergy is a reaction of our immune system to something that does not bother most other people." he said. Well, that was his daddy said when he asked him about his reaction to the nuts.
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Closing her book India just thought for a moment. Raising her hand she moved to answer the question, "Professor, an allergy is an immune response to something added to your local environment by either the scent of something or particles in the air or by eating it. Typically it can be damaging however the damage level is also dependent on how severely your body typically responds to said thing." Yes she knew allergies. Her brother was allergic to Cucumbers of all things.
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Zhenya raised her hand, and waited to say "Professor Lafay an allergy is something which causes someone to become hypersensitive. By that, their immune system begins a process to get rid of the allergy. For some reason the body has told itself that a certain thing is no good, which is where the immune system comes in. An allergen is usually something that others have no reaction to at all, but its just the types of antibodies the person has, and also what you said, it is related to what the person is exposed to which can develop into a reaction," she said. She had learned a lot about allergens and the different types of reactions someone can have when she saw a friend collapse and almost die when she unknowingly ate a peanut. So, Zhenya asked her father to explain it to her. She really felt bad for some of the other students.
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Eino didn't have any allergies, at least none that he was aware of, but apparently it was possible he could develop them. That wasn't very reassuring, what if he was allergic to something he really liked, like dragons or thoughts? What if squibs were allergic to magic? Hmm, that was a good theory worth looking into. "Allergy..." He began with his hand high in the air. "Is when your body doesn't like something so it swells and boils in response to it, to reject it. If you don't heed the body's warning, it could be very dangerous. Very clever the body is." Eino wished everything would respond so cleverly to things they didn't like. It was awfully confusing receiving vague messages in the case of people.
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Develop allergies? Sky sure hoped she wouldn't. They sounded awful! She snapped her book shut and thought for a second. She knew the symptoms of an allergy but what actually it was, she was absolutely clueless. So, she decided to go for her own definition of an allergy. "It's what happens when something in a person's immune system messes up and thinks something that's not really dangerous, like pollen, is dangerous," she said, hoping that made at least some sense (it had when she was thinking it).
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Angelina didn’t know much about allergies, so raising her hand she took the best guess, ”Professor, aren’t allergies when something happens in our body that reacts to anything, that may think is harm, but isn’t really?” she hoped that made since.
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Lafay's quite relaxed today, Janice thought. And what is an allergy? She raised her hand and answered.
"Allergy is when your body reacts abnormally to something that is supposed to be normal. Some has it, some don't." Like rashes because of bush daisies, red sores because of pineapples, and those puking and barfing because of chocolate. Yep.
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Kurumi covered her mouth with the sleeve of her robes as she squeak!sneezed. Had she known about this portion of the lesson, Kurumi would have brought one of her surgical masks with her to wear during the lesson. Now, with her sneezing beginning and her eyes getting itchy, it was going to take a while for her body to relax.
When Professor Lafay asked her next question, Kurumi sneezed into the sleeve of her robes again and then raised her other hand. "An a-allergy is when *sneeze* you have an a-a-abnormally high sensa *sneeze* sensitivity to something *sneeze* Our bodies react to t-t-the substance *sneeze!squeak* and treat it as an invader *sneeze*." And well, Kurumi was just going to stop talking because she was hardly getting through a sentence without sneezing.
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''Professor an allergy is where someone may be allergic to some type of food or mostly pollen or plants.''He paused,He wasn't feeling to well.''In same ways the effects may be Sneezing or itchy eyes or in some cases deadly.''He finshed.
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Someone was allergic to chocolate?! Though it was believible she would be extremely upset if she was allergic to chocolate since it was one of her favourite things. But so many people had allergies it was terrible.
Listening to the Professor straight away she knew what an allergy was. She had even see someone's rashes because of eating a banana. "An allergy is a hyper sensitive reaction when a certain thing interfeers with your imunne system" She said raising her hand up before.
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Sophie raised her hand once again before speaking. "I think allergy is when our body is trying to protect us from what it thinks it's dangerous." She looked around. "Even when the thing is not really dangerous..."
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Of course it was sad, El couldn't eat chocolate! Frowning, she shrugged as if to say 'I didn't get to choose'.
Closing her textbook, she smiled and raised her hand. She knew this one by heart. "An allergy is when your immune system is hypersensitive. An allergic reaction is actually just the immune system acting up to something that to others is just harmless."
"Most allergic reactions are mild, such as sneezing or itchiness, but some are severe and can cause life-threatening situations."
Lowering her hand, she looked around. She and Beezus weren't the only ones. There were about four of them? But those were chocolate, not necessarily cacao. A true cacao allergy was rare, at least that was what she was told...
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There wasn't anything Kacie could think of that she was allergic to so she just simply shook her head at the professor's question, while others said what they were allergic to. One thing was for sure, if she ever was allergic to chocolate, she didn't think she would be able to survive. How could anyone live without chocolate?
Kacie raised her hand so she could answer the question. Telling want an allergy is was easy enough. "It an illness that causes people to have a bad reaction to things that's usually harmless like food or other things," she said, giving a simple answer of what she thought an allergy was. "I hope I never develop an allergy or if I do I hope its not something I'd hate to give up."
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Yeah tell him about it, specially if the allergy emerged right smack in the middle of puberty. He angled his head confused at the Potions Mistress instructions to close their books, but followed he did. Next question was.... something easier to answer by reading from a book. Guess he was gonna have to wing it "Professor, an allergy is the body's defensive response to a substance it doesnt agree with. Usually those substances are harmless and can be found anywhere in the environment but depending on a person's specific physiology, those substances can upset the body's internal balance. Thats why the body's defensive mechanism kicks in and starts producing other substances to counteract it, and thats when we notice the physical symptoms of an allergy-- such as sneezing, swelling or itchiness."
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When Raven said she had allergic with cat and kneazles, a kneazle appeared himself to the student.
"Hatchi!" She began to sneeze. She really had a bad allergic with those creatures, although the kneazle or the cat was not too close with her.
Okay, she tried to answer the question and raised her hand
"An An allergy is a hypersensitivity disorder of the immune system. Allergic reactions occur when a person's immune system reacts to normally harmless substances in the environment. A substance that causes a reaction is called an allergen." Then..
"Hatchi!"
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Autumn thought for a while "Professor, is a allergy when the body and its immune system response to a substance, where as the symptons can go from just itchy eyes and runny nose, to a swollen throat and life threatening conditions."
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Those of you who don't have them yet, you may develop some... 0______0 Does that mean today? Or was professor Lafay just saying that as an additional information. Jonathan shook his head and focused to the professor's question...
ALLERGIES. It's official they'll be learning something that is linking to allergies today. No doubt about it. A potion that probably gets rid of the allergies, or something like that... maybe.
Jonathan raised his hand to answer "Allergies are reactions of the body to a normally harmless substance such as food, weather, animals, fruits, and many more that some students have mentioned earlier."
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Being allergic to chocolate was sad? She frowned. Really? Why did she not feel the same? She was even thankful that she was allergic to chocolate so she won't have cavities.
Then..they were asked to close their books. She did. And when the next question was given, she raised her hand and answered. "Allergy Professor in my own understanding and simplest definition is sensitivity to certain substances that can trigger some unusual reactions in a person's body."
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What was an allergy? Well Selina knew that her mother had some allergies so she had the basic understanding of them, but beyond the basic understanding of them she was lacking. It was not like Selina could just whip out a dictionary definition like most students her age seemed to be able to do. In her best attempt at a definition in the vernacular, Selina rose her hand, "Ma'am, an allergy is when a person's body cannot have contact or ingest certain things specific to the person or else they would have a reaction, which could be sneezing, a runny nose and all of the other side affects that constitute an allergy." Merlin knew her mother was awful around the whole milk thing. Ah well, more ice cream for herself.
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Kimalia rose her hand to answer, "An allergy is related to one's immune system overreacting to something, whether ingested, touched or inhaled." It was a good thing that at least her allergy was of a food, other than something in the air. That would make staying outside all the time difficult..
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Nate raises his hand ans says "Professor I think an allergy is a hypersensitivity disorder of the immune system." That is what he just thought. He could be wrong he could be right. You never know until you find out.
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"An allergy is being extremely sensitive to something. It's brought on by you immune system," Jezzabelle said raising her hand.
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What? She might develop some? Gee, thanks for the positive push, professor. Louisa's face didn't change, though, as the students were sharing their allergies. She didn't even pay attention to who was saying what. Meh. It was a boring start for a lesson, or well maybe it was a bit more boring than she'd expected when she saw that tray of colorful cute things.
Raising her hand, she answered, "Allergy is a reaction that our body initiates when it doesn't accept a substance... or two. It's mild when it happens for the first time but it grows extremer if it happens again and again."
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"When you fel ill around something and it sometimes makes you break out into diffferent things."
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Minerva put up her hand. "Professor I think an allergy is when the body is rejecting something it feels is dangerous to the body." she wasn't sure, but remembered seeing her cousin puff up from a bee sting once. That looked like the body was rejecting the sting.
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All these people sneezing... God of Underworld, save him!
Now that he knew who was allergic to what, Hades can save them by not targetting their allergies. He wasn't that mean, all right? "It's an extraordinary sensitivity to some substances," said the boy after putting up his hand. Not a brilliant answer, but at least it made some sense.
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Ella raised her hand. She was pretty sure she knew what an allergy was though she didn't really know how to explain it. "Professor, an allergy is something that-that can cause negative things to happen to people who are sensitive to them. For example, someone with an allergy to bees would swell up when stung."
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Harvey thought about what the professor said.. he would get allergies?! he wondered what his allergy would be if he got one.. he then put up his hand to answer the question. "I think that an allergy is a reaction to certain substances.. of which many can be harmless whereas others could be harmful.. some I have heard can cause quite a bad reaction if the person is quite sensitive to the substance" he answered the question ..
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Violet raised her hand. She wasn't exactly sure what an allergy was, but it was worth a shot to try and guess. "An allergy is something that your body reacts to if it's sensitive to the material. Is it kind of like a safety protections for your body?" She cocked her head in doubt.
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TAylor raised her hand, "PRofessor, an allergy is when the body reacts to somthing that it thinks is dangerous and tries to get rid of it. THe thing that people are allergic to isn't usually dangerous overall just to whomever has the allergy.
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This wasn't too hard a question, or so Amelia thought. So she raised her hand before saying, "An allergy is basically a sensitivity to something. Your body reacts to the sensitivity." Or that was the gist of it.
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" Professor, an allergy is simply defined as a adverse reaction to a food or really anything that yoour body views as poisonous to it. The reaction can be varied from a simple rash to a serious reaction that can cause the body to start to shut down. " Justin said after having raised his hand.
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What was an allergy..? Um... It was kind of difficult to explain... She raised her hand. "Is it... an intolerance to certain things? Sometimes a person's body can react badly to a food or something and it gives them swollen cheeks or a rash or a sneeze or something..." Urgh, that was a bad description...
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Sitting towards the back of the class, Lily looked up from her notes as the teacher asked a question. Allergies... Lily thought, that must be why there are a variety of things on the tray. Lily looked at the tray of various common allergens. Raising her hand to answer the question, Lily replied, "An allergy is the body rejecting some object that the immune system sees as foreign and a danger to the body."
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Nessie raised her hand. "A allergy is a person's immune system overreacting when a particular substance enters the body. Obviously it varies from person to person." She said. Wondering what in the world Lafay had in mind for them. Did she have some prejudice against people with allergies? Was she trying to kill students?
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Hmmm...what is an allergy? She knew that it wasn't something fun to deal with, with the way the other students were reacting to the question. Still she wanted to participate so she raised her hand. "Professor I think an allergy is something that doesn't agree with our bodies. Something that is different to each of us." She hoped that she got the point across. Besides she was only 11, and she did try.
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Ari was lucky, not being allergic to anything, but she knew how hard it must be on people who do have such sort of sensitivities. Her favourite uncle was allergic to cats, and every time he visited, Ari had no choice but to hide her Pluto for the day. She didn't know how to define allergies, though. Nevertheless, after a bit of thought, she managed to order her ideas a bit.
'An allergy is a reaction some people have when in the proximity of animals, plants or objects that are normally harmless, because their body had developed a certain sensitivity. These reactions can be things like fever, itchiness or swelling.' the girl replied after having raised her hand.
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Hm?
Lafay seemed peachy today? Odd! She nodded to herself and closed her book as requested, she looked at the students, no! That REALLY needed to be answered Why is Lafay not being.. her normal self?? Change of heart?
Allergies, instead of sitting down and watching the other students answer her hand went up "Allergies are abnormel immune system reations to things that are typically harmless to most people,"
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"Allergies are when a person can not eat or smell anything without getting very ill or getting a rash it can also be very dangerous" she hoped she was right
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Amethyst thought on this. She personally wasn't allergic to anything, but Kyle was allergic to honey. She raised her hand high, waiting to be called on. When she was, she cleared her throat making the answer short and simple. "An allergy is hypersensitive disorder of the immune system."
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Alex smirked to himself when Sierra said she was allergic to corn. He vaguely remembered that from growing up with her...he was pretty sure when they were like, three or so, that he'd taken great joy out of the fact that he was better at something than Sierra. Even if that something was eating corn. Now he didn't even like corn so it didn't matter anymore. His allergy was more lethal anyways--Sierra could easily throw flowers in his face if she wanted to annoy him. Throwing corn in Sierra's face would not only make him look stupid but it wouldn't produce the same affect.
Lost in his thoughts, he shook his head and then raised his hand to get back into the class. "Allergic reactions are your body's natural reaction to something that makes it sick. When you come into contact with something you're allergic to, your body goes into defense mode, which is why you have a runny nose, a cough, and stuff like that. Your body is trying to get rid of the thing that's irritating it, like it's a germ," he said. He felt bad for the people with food allergies, they got the worst of it with the blocked wind pipe and all that nasty stuff.
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Sierra raised her eyebrows at the sight of the ear of corn. It was such a random thing for Professor Lafay to have in her desk, but then again, she likely already knew Sierra was allergic to corn, and then with the lesson being about allergies... Well, it all made sense now.
Sierra happened to glance to the side of her and catch Alex's smirk. Alex never smirked. A smirk to a Hufflepuff was like...a dog meow'ing or a kitten barking. It just made little to no sense. Nevertheless, she knew why he was smirking. She could feel it in her bones--he was smirking at her corn allergy. If she thought she could get away with it, she'd toss her opened bottle of ink at him.
So...what was an allergy? With her hand raised, Sierra said, "Sometimes, our bodies mistake normal, everyday things for intruders in our body. Things like flowers, nuts, or...corn should be harmless to us, but if our body overreacts and thinks it's something we shouldn't be in contact with, we get an allergy." She lowered her hand. "Then we end up with things like rashes or runny noses."
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Phew.
Auggie sighed happily as he returned to his chair after looking at the shellfish on display up front. It was very good that Professor Lafay wouldn't make him ingest any of that stuff. He would have really been upset, and that was unlike August Goldstein.
So what were allergies eh? Raising his hand he then spoke up. "Professor Lafay, an allergy is something, depending on the specifics, that the body sort of 'rejects' with its sinuses or other glands. You've already presented us with many different types." There was no use in giving an example.
She nodded. "Good. Good. Yes. An allergy is an abnormal reaction to a substance that you come in contact with. So... the way you fight it, is you force your body to NOT recognize the substance. And to do that... you need a potion." She smirked.
"Now... who can think of what ingredients might come in this potion?" She asked and waited to hear the answers.
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Jory raised his hand. "An allergy is a reaction that the body has after coming in contact with something the body sees as bad, Professor,'' the Huffie answered. He was thankful of not being allergic to anything and hoped he would never develop an allergy to something.
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She nodded. "Good. Good. Yes. An allergy is an abnormal reaction to a substance that you come in contact with. So... the way you fight it, is you force your body to NOT recognize the substance. And to do that... you need a potion." She smirked.
"Now... who can think of what ingredients might come in this potion?" She asked and waited to hear the answers.
Amethyst raised her hand up high. "Would one ingredient be the object that the potion drinker is allergic too...?" She was uncertain of her answer, but to her it only made sense.
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Jory raised his hand. "An allergy is a reaction that the body has after coming in contact with something the body sees as bad, Professor,'' the Huffie answered. He was thankful of not being allergic to anything and hoped he would never develop an allergy to something.
Violet raised her hand hesitantly to answer the professor's next question. "Professor, could one of the ingredients be the substance that the person be allergic to and also the substance that would fight your allergic reaction?" she said while eyeing the basket that the professor had placed on her desk earlier in the lesson filled with various objects.
Violet looked at the Huffie that was sitting in the classroom that had answered a question that the professor asked earlier before. How behind was this kid? She shook her head at him in disappointment. He will definitely lose some house or get a strict tell off from the professor for sure.
Kennedy rubbed his chin in concentration. What ingredients could this potion have in it? Hmm...After a bit of thinking, he raised his hand. "One of the ingredients could be the substance that triggers the immune system to react," he said, "and another ingredient might be what helps control the allergies...almost so they cancel each other out," he finished.
Maybe mixing those two would be like a negative and positive thus cancelling each other at the end?
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She nodded. "Good. Good. Yes. An allergy is an abnormal reaction to a substance that you come in contact with. So... the way you fight it, is you force your body to NOT recognize the substance. And to do that... you need a potion." She smirked.
"Now... who can think of what ingredients might come in this potion?" She asked and waited to hear the answers.
Force the body not to recognize the allergen? Vickers gulped quietly. He wasnt sure he could do that, or that he wanted to. He wasnt aware of his tomato allergy yet he started puffing up like a fish before class ended.
He angled his head on the Professor's question. They were to guess what the ingredients were? He furrowed his brows thoughtfully, what would he use to keep himself from puffing up? He was nervous all throughout Muggle Studies, could his nerves made his symptoms worse? Another tentative hand goes up "Professor, what about Valerian? Either the root or the sprigs? Its been known as a sedative and counteracts muscle spasms, and is a standard ingredient in several potions meant to relieve anxiety or induce sleep."
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She nodded. "Good. Good. Yes. An allergy is an abnormal reaction to a substance that you come in contact with. So... the way you fight it, is you force your body to NOT recognize the substance. And to do that... you need a potion." She smirked.
"Now... who can think of what ingredients might come in this potion?" She asked and waited to hear the answers.
Elise smiled and sneezed lightly into her sleeve. What was with the cacao? Not to recognize. Right. Yeah. Potion, perfect. She usually got hers delivered from St. Mungo's but now she could make them herself. Yay!
What would be in it? Well, Elise always had to mix cacao powder into hers but everyone seemed to be saying that. Shrugging, she raised her hand. "The allergen itself, and an anti-allergen. The anti-allergen would mask the allergy so that the body wouldn't recognize it and so balance it out."
Lowering, her hand, she began to take notes and maybe draw a few doodles on her parchment.
Now what ingredients could be used as anti allergens? Now, how would Ira be knowing that? Of course, she didn't know it.. But she did hear what others answered before her. Yeah.. that was true, the anti allergen potion must contain a substance a person is allergic to. She thought about it a little.
So she raised her hand up and answered, "Professor, the anti allergen potion mus contain a substance a person is allergic to, and also the opposite substance which reduces its effect."
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Well, Sky knew that muggles put a little of whatever virus they were trying to vaccinate against in vaccinations. Did the same principal apply here? She decided to test this theory. "Could one of the ingredients be a small amount of whatever the drinker is allergic to?" she answered.
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Zhenya had no idea, but she was finding some logic in why people were staying to add what the person was allergic to. But she raised her hand and said, "Professor, I'm sure something better to work in potions would be used, but how about an antihistamine ingredient? Muggles use them by themselves in medicine form, but perhaps we could add some of the active ingredients used in it. However, I don't know what those ingredients are," she said.
Sophie raised her hand before speaking. "Maybe the thing the person is allergic to." If this potion worked as muggles' vaccines, at least. "And something to weaken it or... something."