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The human body fights off bacteria in two ways. First, the friendly bacteria that live inside your body kill off the invaders. Second, failing that, white blood cells (leukocytes) -- specifically Neutrophils -- step in and kill the invaders, taking their bodies to your colon after neutralization.

The problem is, in order for either of these processes to work, both healthy bacteria and leukocytes need a fluid to move about in. When it comes to your lungs, fluids are bad (pneumonia). Ideally, once the bacterial infection is eradicated, the body will expel the fluid and the lungs will return to normal function.

Modern medicine often dictates that antibiotics is the appropriate coarse of action in events like this. However, this should be reserved only for cases where death of the patient is imminent. This is because in addition to killing the bad bacterial invaders (pathogens) the antibiotics also kill the healthy bacteria that make up your immune system. This compromises your immune system and if the pathogens are immune to the antibiotics -- which is becoming more and more common -- this course could cause prolonged illness or even death.

Ideally, a body with a healthy diet and an adequate supply of vitamin C will heal itself in due course. Since not having a healthy diet with an adequate supply of vitamin C was probably what made the person sick in the first place, ideally that should be the first place to start when looking at fighting off an infection.

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