Body Parts
The layer covering your whole body that stops most pathogens from entering your tissues/blood.
Skin
The main part of blood that runs the immune system
White Blood Cells
1st Line is specific or non-specific?
NON-SPECIFIC
When your body mistakes peanuts for a pathogen
PEANUT ALLERGY
The watery liquid in the mouth secreted by glands.
Saliva?
The centre of your bones and part of the immune system produces blood cells.
Bone Marrow
1st line of defence includes maintaining ___________ levels so bacteria does not survive on us.
pH / TEMPERATURE
When your body fights off healthy cells
AUTO-IMMUNE DISORDER
This flushes germs from the eyeballs
Tears
The white blood cells that EAT dead cells and pathogens
Phagocytes
2nd line of defence includes inflammation and THIS TYPE OF CELL
MACROPHAGE / PHAGOCYTE
What is a vaccine?
This traps germs in the nose and throat
mucous
The cells that IDENTIFY the intruder and create ANTIBODIES
B Cells
Inflammation is these 4 things...
REDNESS
SWELLING
HEAT
PAIN
Chemical our body releases that initiates an allergic reaction...
HISTAMINE
The part of the body that stores and releases WBCs (might be inflamed when you are sick)
Lymph Nodes
The cells that DESTROY the pathogen
T Cells
Describe the 3rd line of defence
Antibody mediated (B Cells) and Cell mediated (T Cells) coordinate a SPECIFIC response to a pathogen that is held in memory cells so your body can fight this pathogen better the next time it encounters it
It is important to keep your mouth and nose covered while sick as this bodily function can launch pathogens from your body at well over 100 miles per hour..
Sneezing