Sentences with phrase «fight the infection early»

The prognosis is good for animals that are treated with antibiotics to fight the infection early on in the disease.

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The earliest mention of cancer - fighting infections dates to a citation from 1550 B.C. and is attributed to Egyptian physician Imhotep, who called for treating the wound with cloth coated in a poultice that would almost certainly lead to infection, and then cutting into the tumor.

But in a new study, Canadian researchers found that a combination treatment of antibodies and virus - fighting proteins prevented death from Ebola - Zaire in some primates, even when administered three days after infection and when the early symptoms of the fever, which include fatigue and vomiting, begin to show.

In earlier studies of populations of people who have contracted Ebola, these differences are not related to any specific changes in the Ebola virus itself that made it more or less dangerous; instead, the body's attempts to fight infection seems to determine disease severity.

«Earlier studies have shown that vitamin E can help regulate the aging body's immune system, but our present research is the first study to demonstrate that dietary vitamin E regulates neutrophil entry into the lungs in mice, and so dramatically reduces inflammation, and helps fight off infection by this common type of bacteria,» said first author Elsa N. Bou Ghanem, Ph.D., postdoctoral scholar in the department of molecular biology and microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM).

All of the genes had earlier been linked with the immune system, which plays a major role in fighting infections.

«Group child care has many advantages, like early socialization, and now we can say it may benefit the immune system too and the ability to fight infections.»

Honey was a conventional therapy in fighting infection up until the early 20th century, at which time its use slowly vanished with the advent of penicillin.

Why the illness appears earlier in some is a mystery, but there is evidence that some children (1 in 1,000) may develop the disorder after a strep infection, when an antibody generated to fight the bacteria mistakenly turns against a brain enzyme and disrupts communication between neurons.

If the virus is caught early on, injecting these proteins may help fight the infection before it fully develops in your cat.