Sentences with phrase «severe immune response in bodies»

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Once influenza spreads deep into the lungs, the body's own immune response can prove harmful, resulting in severe damage to the alveolar air sacs.

Gene therapy, which often employs viruses to deliver the good genes to a body's target cells, has been known to trigger severe immune responses and was blamed for the death of an 18 - year - old in 1999, who was receiving gene therapy for a hereditary metabolic disorder.

It could be that the immune response provoked by T. cruzi is so severe that the body is in danger of attacking its own tissues.

Thus, when the food is consumed, antibodies (the immune system response to foreign bacteria or toxins) flood the body with substances such as histamine that cause allergic symptoms, which can turn up anywhere in the body, including the respiratory system, intestinal tract, or skin.13 Essentially, negative reactions to food associated with a full - blown allergy, or even a less severe sensitivity, stress the adrenal glands and immune system and can cause seemingly unconnected issues later on in life.14