Question 1

can radiotherapy affect the immune system?

Accepted Answer

Yes it can: Radiation therapy- to treat cancer- causes dna damage to both healthy and cancerous cells within the radiation area treated. The healthy cells can repair themselves while cancer cells generally cannot and die. However, during radiation and for a few weeks, healthy cells are injured. If long bones are in the radiation field, bone marrow function decreases and infection risk is raised temporarily.

Question 2

do syphilis affect the immune system?

Accepted Answer

Sure: Everything that the human body recognizes as foreign has and effect on the immune system. The immune system creates antibodies to certain substances on or in the syphilis bacteria. Antibodies can also react with a combined substance, such as a substance that is partly from a germ and partly from something else. That "something else" can even be a normal protein in the human body.

Question 3

how does aids affect the immune system?

Accepted Answer

Hits white bld cells: The HIV virus (leading to aids) attacks and destroys a critical white blood cell of the immune system: the "cd4+ t-helper" cell. With these cells knocked out, the body's immune system is crippled and left unable to fight off infections which would ordinarily be easily handled by a normal immune system.

Question 4

how does tobacco smoke affect the immune system?

Accepted Answer

Not fully understood: but it is clear that the activity of autoimmune diseases, like ulcerative colitis, psoriasis and several others appear to be reduced in smokers.  Nobody is sure whether it is only the nicotine or other elements in the smoke as well, but nicotine has known immunomodulating effects, reducing activity of several immune cells. Other smoke elements may affect local immunity in the air passages and lung

Question 5

what causes teething to affect the immune system?

Accepted Answer

It develops it: Teething create a bacteremia, essentially inoculating the body systemically with bacteria from the mouth and challenging the immune system in a good way to develop and refine its system to future attacks.

Question 6

how does age affect the immune system?

Accepted Answer

Old age not golden : Advanced age seems at least in some people to lessen or blunt both immune recognition and the intensity of the humeral and cellular response. Additionally often skin barrier protection is affected as elderly are more prone to skin breakdown. Other protective functions such as cough can be diminished.  Additionally other diseases, nutrition and hygiene can more likely affect the elderly.

Question 7

how does hiv affect the immune system?

Accepted Answer

Hits white bld cells: The HIV virus (leading to aids) attacks and destroys a critical white blood cell of the immune system: the "cd4+ t-helper" cell. With these cells knocked out, the body's immune system is crippled and left unable to fight off infections which would otherwise be easily handled by a normal, healthy immune system.

Question 8

how does exercise/fitness affect the immune system?

Accepted Answer

Yes, yes, yes.: Trust me, yes.   Now you're getting into a lot of the biology and science of the human body, detailed analysis of immunity and the immune system, the plasticity and flexibility of the brain--once thought to be set in its ways, the human mind (the brain is physical matter, the mind is much much deeper, and machine will never even approach the complexity of the mind (no matter what cousin ray says)!

Question 9

can masturbation affect the immune system of our body?

Accepted Answer

That's silly: Please forgive my frankness. The immune system is enormously complex, and anyone wishing to publish a junk paper can demonstrate that something impacts some immune cell in culture. Worthless remedies are promoted as "strengthening the immune system." and there is no empirical or theoretical evidence for thinking that enjoying your body will compromise your ability to fight infections.

Question 10

how does hernia affect the immune system and other bodily processes?

Accepted Answer

Hernia is a : Mechanical defect, so it should not affect immune system.  If it involves organs, such as intestine, it will affect that organs function.

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