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the immune system fights diseases by creating more white blood cells which trigger more white blood cells that make antibodies.
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How can your body fight many diseases on its own?
Your body's immune system had antibodies that fight against the bacteria or virus infecting you.
Does Autoimmune mean your immune system can catch many of the diseases like flu and cold germs more easily?
No. Autoimmune disorders are those in which your bodies immune system recognizes a certain type of your own tissue as foreign tissue and activates an immune response to destroy what it believes foreign. Your regular immune responses are still functional to fight normal infection.
Which disease damages the human immune system leaving the body open to certain infectious agents?
There are many diseases that destroy the immune system. The most widely-spread immune disease is the AIDS virus affecting huge populations in third world countries especially in the continent of Africa.
If HIV is so weak that it cannot lead to immune system collapse then what is the cause of death among the HIV infected in south African blacks?
HIV cannot fully collapse your immune system, but it can come close. Reason this is a problem is we need the function of our immune system to fight off any disease even ones as simple as the common cold or flu. If you have a weak immune system such as people who have been diagnosed with AIDS (meaning a person cannot fight off simple infections), then even the common cold becomes deadly. So many south African blacks (or anyone) who are infected do not die from HIV, but other diseases that they acquire because of their weak immune systems.
Why is the immune system so complex?
Because it has a lot of very varied jobs to do, and many different pathogens to fight against.
How many people in the world live with a weakened immune system due to autoimmune diseases or transplants or chemotherapy or etc?
More than three.
How do you treat low immune system?
There are many different diseases which result from problems with the immune system; broadly speaking, there are two types, which involve either an excessive immune response, causing an autoimmune disease such as multiple sclerosis, or an insufficient immune response, causing a disease such as AIDS. There are also many different reasons why the immune system may not work correctly. However, the greatest single threat to the functioning of the immune system is the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV.
What problems can go wrong with the immune system?
There are many diseases that involve some aspect of the immune system function or malfunction. The most obvious would be infectious diseases such as bacterial, viral and parasitic infections.Hormones affect the immune system, so diseases that disrupt normal hormonal activity can affect the immune system.Diseases that affect the sleep cycles also can affect the immune system since sleep deprivation has negative impacts on the immune system (e.g., sleep apnea, insomnia, etc.).Other diseases or disorders of the immune system can manifest with over-activity and some with under-activity of the immune function, some are congenital and some are acquired, some are due to diseases that are damaging to parts of the immune system itself (e.g., alcoholism, obesity, drug use, malnutrition such as Vitamin D deficiency, etc.), and some diseases are affected by the immune system function or malfunction.The immune system function can also be modified and affected by the treatment and medication used for some diseases and conditions, such as anti-rejection drugs used in transplants and in autoimmune diseases and anti-neoplastic chemotherapy (cancer treatment) drugs. Another that can damage the immune system function is radiation therapy.Some examples of immune system diseases and disorders are: HIV/AIDS, systemic Lupus (SLE or systemic lupus erythematosis), and other autoimmune disorders, leukemia, lymphoma and other cancers, mononucleosis, Type 1 diabetes mellitus, allergies, asthma, Crohn's Disease, MS, Guillan-Barre syndrome. See the Related Link below for more. HIV/Aids.
Does stress weaken your immune system?
It definitely weakens your immune system! I contracted MRSA 4 years ago (due to surgery) and it took over a year after being off of IV antibiotics to build up my system enough that I would not have to go to the dr everytime I got a cold. I just could not fight anything off! Even now, I have a hard time kicking a minor cold.
What does aids do your immune system?
Aids and HIV are not the same thing though many people think they are. HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) attacks your body and destroys your CD4+ cells, which are part of the bodies immune system therfore it slowly weakens your bodies immune system so it can no longer fight diseases as well as it once could. Aids is only when you have a full outbreak of HIV. I am sorry I couldn't be of more help I don't have alot of time right now to give a more discriptive answer.
What causes low CD4 counts?
Your CD4 count is a marker of the strength of your immune system. Many immune related diseases can cause your CD4 count to drop, as can medications that are designed to suppress your immune system. With HIV, the CD4 count falls because it is unable to keep up with the pressure from the virus replicating.
2 chronic diseases of the immune system?
Probably the disease most commonly recognized as a disease of the immune system is Human immunodeficiency virus infection/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), which is known as a secondary immune deficiency disorder (secondary = caused by something acting on the body, like the HIV virus that causes AIDS, as opposed to being primary = caused by inherited genetic mutations). There are many primary immune deficiency disorders, but these are less well-known, examples are: Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) and Selective Immunoglobulin A Deficiency.Other diseases or disorders that affect the immune system are those that cause autoimmune diseases, such as Lupus Erythematosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis, and Pernicious Anemia. These cause the the immune system to get confused and attack your cells as if they are foreign invaders to try to destroy the cells.There are also medications that can affect the immune system to depress the immune response so that people with transplanted organs do not have the immune system attacking the "foreign" organ and creating "rejection".
