Power of Prevention
These are called the "tiny invaders" of the Immune System.
What are pathogens?
Specialized cells, tissue and organs that work together to destroy the invaders or pathogens that cause illnesses and/or diseases.
What is the Immune System?
Spleen, lymph nodes thymus and bone marrow.
What are organs in the Immune System?
These disease-fighting destroyers wait for a signal to go to battle.
What are cells?
Theses are the invaders that cause disease.
What are antigens?
The proteins that fights off the antigens.
What are antibodies?
This occurs when the antibody matches the antigen perfectly.
What is binding?
B Cells, T Cells, Helper T Cells Killer T Cells and Memory Cells are all considered to be this.
What are White Blood Cells or leukocytes?
You get these when you're born or from your mother's milk.
What are natural antibodies?
This explains what your body learns to do or remembers to do when you get sick.
What is Acquired Immunity?
Instead of Natural or Acquired Immunities you can get one of these to build up defenses and antibodies.
What is a vaccine?
This disease is caused when T cells attack insulin producing cells in the pancreas.
What is Type 1 Diabetes?
This is why we may need a new vaccine over a long period of time.
Some immunity eventually goes away.
This is where the T and B cells are stored?
What are the Lymph Nodes?
This is the where T and B Cells enter when they are needed to defend against disease.
What is the blood stream?
The shield that prevents pathogens from entering your body. You may be surprised but this is also an organ.
This is produced in your nose and prevents pathogens from entering your blood stream.
What is mucus?
As food enters your digestive system these kill the bacteria on the food you ate.
What are stomach acids?
This is what happens when your white blood cells don't recognize the invader or germ and they multiply.
What is you get sick?
This is what you take when you have an infection.
What is an antibiotic?
Getting enough sleep, eating a healthy and balanced diet, getting regular exercise and avoiding stress does this.
What is make your Immune System stronger?
Malnutrition, Drug Abuse, Obesity and HIV.
What are diseases that weaken the immune system?
What is an Autoimmune Disease?
This is why there is no vaccine for the common cold.
What is many different viruses can be the cause of the common cold?
This is the one goal of any virus.
To replicate itself and/or multiply.