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First came a viral storm. Now, we have puzzling superinfections
- Khelavaster 4y agoWonder whether vaccines and boosters designed to stimulate antiviral immunity eventually inhibit antibacterial immunity..
- gardenfelder 4y agohttps://archive.ph/f7lFH https://archive.ph/f7lFH Not a physician here,but... I used Interferon to get rid of a chronic Leukemia some 30+ years ago. What I learned was this: viral infections are naturally dealt with though interferons secreted by infected immune cells. INF serves two purposes: a) to send a signal to the brain "we're sick" which provokes what is known as "viral syndrome" - I probably don't have to describe that, and b) that same signal lands on other immune cells with the message: "don't divide". That second message is what makes this work. When an infected cell divides, it releases more viral load. So, don't divide: keep the viral load down while the rest of the immune system figures out how to kill infected cells. The rub is this: some of those cells which must divide are the b-cells which are there to learn which cells are bad and then mark them for t-cells to do their work. If the b-cells are not learning, that includes not learning about bacterial material entering the system. Thus, viral infections of any kind have the property natural suppression of bacterial defenses. A take home from that is this: avoid viral infection at all costs. Side note: return to "viral syndrome" for a moment. One of the symptoms is a fever. We all know how television advertisements rail at you to take some form of pills whenever you have a fever. But, they do not tell you that the fever is required for those b-cells to be more efficient at learning. So...and this can be problematic: taking pills to get rid of fever is not always but can be counter productive.