Sentences with phrase «as fighting infections»

Food Network star and longtime girlfriend of Cuomo, Sandra Lee will remain hospitalized for a few more days, as she fights an infection developed after her double mastectomy in May.

For example, reactions triggered at the surfaces of white blood cells amplify to produce organism scale behaviors, such as fighting infection or developing immunity.

Not exact matches

There are tons of foods that are packed with antioxidants — natural compounds that help prevent or stop cell damage and help fend off viruses and microbes — as well as foods filled with vitamins and minerals, which are considered to fight an array of common illnesses like the flu, a cold, or even sinus infections.

But we may well find that when it comes to our health, antibiotics that fight off infections — as miraculous as they are — are just half of the equation.

Treatments such as bleeding and purging could only weaken the constitution of the sick, reducing their bodies» capacity to fight off infection.

A great lean protein source, full of vitamins and minerals as well as helping to bolster the immune system and fight infection you'll love this comforting soup.

Manuka Honey hails from New Zealand and is often referred to as nature's antibiotic as it is packed with methylglyoxal, a powerful compound that can fight infections.

Farr's ability to fight off infection was zapped to zero by the chemo, and she was beset by what her mother describes as something like a monumental flu, but more dangerous.

Over the years scientists have identified a number of anti-infective substances in human milk that may help fight respiratory and gastrointestinal infections, and such devastating conditions as acute inflammation of the intestines and colon, to which premature infants are particularly vulnerable.

Enfamil has added Lactoferrin into its formula to help build your baby's immune system giving their body the tools it needs to fight off infections as it grows healthy and strong.

As their immune system matures over the first two years of life, bottle fed babies have to acquire the ability to fight infections on their own.

Not only do these immune factors fight off illness and infection, but they also protect against allergies such as milk allergies, eczema, and wheezing, especially for infants who have a family history of allergies.

And if you're a nursing mom who is prone to getting yeast infections, this is a great product that can make a big difference in your body's ability to fight of this problem as well.

Your healthcare provider may prescribe antiviral medications such as acyclovir or vidarabine (which is sold in eyedrop form) to fight the herpes infection and help prevent future outbreaks.

There is increased risk of getting the flu while pregnant because the immune system is not as effective at fighting off infections.

Bacterial fevers occur when the body fights off infection caused by bacteria, such as an ear infection (which can be bacterial or viral), a urinary tract infection, or bacterial pneumonia.

Baby formulas are produced in such a way as to mimic as closely as possible the nutritional value of mother's milk, although they don't contain the infection - fighting antibodies that are contained in breast milk.

For one thing, one of the factors that can reduce the immune system's ability to fight off infections is not getting enough sleep, and as we know, kids in school are constantly exposed to contagious illnesses such as colds from classmates.

While it's hard to see your baby fight a stuffy nose or suffer with an ear infection, rest assured that most kids grow out of the frequent - illness stage as they build their immunity.

Breastfed infants, compared with formula - fed infants, also seem to have stronger immune systems to fight infection, resulting in lower rates of chronic childhood diseases, such as diabetes, celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, childhood cancer, and allergies and asthma.

So, actually, the infection - fighting properties increase in mother's milk but it is a complete, you know, as far as vitamins and minerals and things like that, mother's milk has everything in it even after a year it's not just in the first 6 months of life.

You should NOT be advising moms to stop breastfeeding while a baby has diarrhea - it's not the same as cow milk and has valuable antibodies to help the baby fight infection.

The next sign you'll see is a low grade fever, as this is a sign that your little one's body is fighting off the infection, and extreme discomfort.

High levels of cortisol in the blood and separation from mother may negatively impact immune function as the body may stop producing leukocytes (infection fighting cells).

A fever is the body's way of fighting off infections, so it is seen as a healthy sign if the body is responding with a mild fever.

Maybe you've heard about all the surprising alternative uses of breast milk (besides as a baby beverage), from fighting off ear infections to healing eczema, but have you heard that you can also use your breast milk as the centerpiece for some truly stunning jewelry?

Cuomo will highlight New York's progress in fighting AIDS — in part due to its embracing of the use of Truvada for H.I.V. - negative people at risk of infection — at a speech at the Apollo Theater in Harlem tomorrow as part of World AIDS Day.

People who are immunosuppressed where there body's immune system or ability to fight off infection may be impaired or not working as effectively

The current test is only able to analyze part of the human immune system, namely the B - cells but not the T - cells, which are needed as helper cells to fight the infection and whose activity indicates the presence of an infection.

Prof. Khatri told the congress: «We know that the immune system is able to deploy different tactics for fighting different infections such as bacteria, viruses and the malaria parasite.

As the fight against drug - resistant infections continues, University of Leeds scientists are looking back at previously discarded chemical compounds, to see if any could be developed for new antibiotics.

A portable detector would greatly aid efforts to fight the infection in developing countries, particularly parts of Asia and Africa where as much as 40 percent of the population carries the microbe, says Robert Belknap, a physician and TB expert at the Denver Health Medical Center in Colorado.

Therefore, fat - soluble vitamins such as vitamin E could help to improve antibiotic treatment by freeing the antibiotics from the lipocalins and allowing them to reach the target bacteria to fight the infection.

Therefore, they must explore the effects of deactivating it on the body's ability to fight infections and other diseases — as hampering the gene's effects only in red blood cells would be difficult.

Although RNAi was known as a major antiviral mechanism in plants by that time, few believed it was also true in the animal kingdom, which was known to fight viral infections by many other well - defined mechanisms.

At six months Katlyn was diagnosed with «bubble boy» disease, formally known as severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), which robs the immune system of the ability to fight infection.

As more reports appear of a grim «post-antibiotic era» ushered in by the rise of drug - resistant bacteria, a new strategy for fighting infection is emerging that targets a patient's cells rather than those of the invading pathogens.

As we get older, a growing proportion of that T - cell pool is used up on cytomegalovirus, with fewer cells available to fight seasonal infections.

The ongoing Zika virus outbreak in Latin America and the Caribbean has created an urgent need for identifying small animal models as a first step toward developing vaccines and treatments to fight the infection.

In other words, as long as the infection is not lethal, it pays to wait for a sign that fighting it will not endanger the animal in other ways.

«It could also help people with a weaker immune system fight infections or better respond to immune vaccination, such as seniors or chronically - infected patients.»

«We think of immune cells as coming into a tissue to fight infection, while stem cells are there to regenerate the tissue after it's damaged,» he said.

UV damage to the skin causes the immune system to recruit numerous signalling molecules — such as chemokines — and immune cells to fight infection.

When fighting chronic viral infections or cancers, a key division of the immune system, known as CD8 T cells, sometimes loses its ability to effectively fight foreign invaders.

But as part of a clinical trial led by Hall, she is one of the first kids in the country to receive a drug called GM - CSF that researchers hope will boost her immune system enough so that it can fight off potential infections.

This is largely due to life - threatening infections, as well as brain inflammation, activated by the body's natural disease - fighting immune response, called «complement».

Here, she began a second fight for her life — battling nosocomial or hospital acquired infections, which nationally, affect as many as 40 percent of critically injured kids in the ICU.

«Injectable immunotherapies that use programmable biomaterials as a powerful vehicle to deliver targeted treatment and preventative care could help fight a whole range of deadly infections, including common worldwide killers like HIV and Ebola, as well as cancer,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D. who is also Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard SEAS.

Instead, a large, pre-existing pool of memory B cells respond — the same memory B cells in the gut that fight bacterial infections such as E coli.

Females are better at fighting off infection than males, but they are also more susceptible to many autoimmune conditions, such as lupus.