2015年9月17日星期四

The Truths You have to Know About Cold and Antibody

It is time of season change, so please be careful to not having a cold. It is believe that most people have suffered from cold and flu. They may have a question that whether taking pills to cure the cold or defeating the virus depends on antibody. This blog aims to tell some truths about cold and antibodies.

Cold is a kind of respiratory disease caused by various viruses and about 30% to 50% of them are caused by a certain kind of rhinovirus serotypes. Because the rest of colds and the subspecies and rhinovirus serotypes of flu are complex, it is hard to produce cross antibodies.

The medicines for common cold are for relieving cold symptoms instead of treating cold. These medicines aim to relieve nasal congestion and swell of nasal capillaries, relieve nasal flu and reduce nasal secretions. In addition, these medicines can promote breathe smoothly to prevent from secondary infection. So cold medicines work more on human body instead of cold.

When read there, maybe some people will choose to treat cold or flu by antibodies. But antibodies produced by cold are not that magical as they imagine. Cold virus antibody stays in human body for one month and virus antibody of flu can stay for eight to twelve months. So immunity after cold will remains in human body for one month and immunity produced by flu remains for eight to twelve months. In addition, immune response of antibody have specificity. Although people can get immunity from cold, this immunity have specificity and it only have immune response to the pathogens which have made people produce immunity.
However, it fails to respond to other pathogens.What’s more, a variety of viruses cause cold. According the research, over 90% of cold are caused by viruses and the known twelve kinds of viruses including influenza virus ,
para influenza virus , rhinovirus and syncytial virus can lead to cold. The human body, after a short time of cure of a kind of virus, may get infected by another kinds of virus. So one person can have repeated colds at a short time.

Finally, the general process of cold treat should be this: have cold, take pills, relieve symptoms, feel better, recover immunity, get Self-treatment.



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