What makes your skin swell when you get stung by a wasp?!
Question:
What makes your skin swell when you get stung by a wasp?
i know venom, but what is actullay happening to your insides that causes them to be inflamed.
Answers:
It's not generally the skin that swells... it's the tissue underneath.
The vemon triggers an antigenic response by your body's immune system to clear out the foreign substance. As a result, the surrounding tissue gets inflamed and swollen
If you'd like to find out more about the immune system and it's response to antigens, you can read this informative article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/immune_syst...