Not exact matches
I got sick several times while in the hospital because of my
weak immune system and even though I have made an effort to strengthen my
immune system my whole life, it is still compromised and I catch colds more
often than other people I know.
Babies fall sick;
often get affected by common cold once to several times a year, pertaining to his
weak immune system at his developmental stages.
Yet a virus made so
weak that it can not get us sick
often can not even last long enough to deliver the gene to its target, being destroyed by the human
immune system before it arrives.
Up to now research has
often viewed autoimmune disease as the result of
immune system hyperactivity, yet recently it has become increasingly clear that such ailments may also result from an
immune system those responses are too
weak.
But when these invaders pass through to one or both lungs (
often after you've had a cold or the flu), or if your
immune system is too
weak to defend against an infectious assault, tiny air sacs in your lungs, called alveoli, become inflamed and fill with fluid or pus.
We show signs of
weak immune systems (variations of primary immunodeficiency, CVID), and «extra» allergies and sensitivities (now known to be mostly from a newly and thus still poorly recognized widespread mast cell activation disease called MCAS, ICD - 10 code coming October 2016, read «Never Bet Against Occam» by L. Afrin, MD), as well as all manner of endocrine imbalances (esp low thyroid, and
often adrenal fatigue), some mitochondrial disease and / or dysfunction and all manner and forms of dysautonomia, but especially POTS in the more severe cases.
This can
often mean that the person's
immune system is so
weak or distracted that it is completely unresponsive.
All that being said, when a breed is more predisposed, this simply means that when something is challenging the
immune system, this is the
weakest link and
often the first place that we see the effects.
Dogs
often become more sensitive to flea bites as they age because older skin is drier and an aging
immune system weaker.