Yeah, but both are "the immune system attacking something it shouldn't", so I wonder if the same mechanism can desensitize it to allergens.
The article mentioned trails for celiac which although it says is autoimmune, at least involves a foreign substance

[–] nymwit@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

The article explains it as tagging your own cells in your body with a marker that makes the immune system ignore them. Doesn't seem like a foreign body encountered sporadically would work. Allergies and autoimmune (like CL IV celiac) are different classifications of hypersensitivity with different mediating mechanisms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersensitivity

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 10 months ago

Is there a fundamental difference between the two? The way I understand it, autoimmune disorders are often basically an allergy to yourself