What goes on at a celular level when inflammation happens and how do anti-inflammatories help?

Answer 1

You should look this up online, you would get a lot of info. But What happens is that your blood vessels dilate at the damaged tissue, allowing plateletes, luekocytes (white blood cells) to go to the affected area and fix the problem. The dilation causes swelling and redness, and the increase in activities of plateletes and WBCs cause higher temperature at the site of inflammation. I don't really know how anti inflammatories work, but my guess would be that they release a chemical that constricts the blood vessels and/or signals to plateletes and WBCs to move out of the area