Can a worm parasite protect against autoimmune diseases?
Allergies and autoimmune diseases caused by a dysregulation of the immune system. Researchers have succeeded in reprogramming with intestinal parasites the relevant immune cells. Allergies, multiple sclerosis, diabetes mellitus type 1 – in many diseases play a role autoimmune reactions. The body directs its defense cells against itself, and it comes to excessive inflammatory responses. Researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg have now found a new approach, such as autoimmune reactions can be inhibited. The unusual helper is a worm parasite. The larvae of the worm Nippostrongylus brasiliensis can protect against excessive reactions of the immune system obviously. The starting point of the experiments was the fact that occur in rare countries with lower hygiene standards autoimmune diseases. „One hypothesis is that infection with intestinal parasites, which are common in these countries, can protect against unwanted immune responses, such...
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Increased blood fat levels – an alarm signal
Healthy over 30? Actually a self-intelligibility, when it comes of interviewed according to view young adult. And often it is the incidental finding, of the shows a very different picture. Meant are high blood fat levels values, which are detected not only in the higher years of life always more frequently. Basically, people need fat. He takes it in their diet, and when they consume too much of it, the weight increases, because fat is stored as a life-saving source of energy for a rainy day. That do not come sooner, the evolutionary young human organism can not know. Excess fat is unhealthy and causes damage to the organs. The detectable in the blood blood fats including cholesterol. It belongs to the group of steroids and is important for the construction of cell walls. Its structure is similar to...
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Helps of blood donations for hypertension
It has long been the bloodletting in naturopathy as spin recovery method known. Now a preliminary study at the Charité has provided evidence that blood donation can reduce high blood pressure. Conventional medicine has thus classified another method of naturopathy by a clinical study as likely to be effective. bloodletting long time belong to naturopathy to the diverting method. And also regular blood donors repeatedly report a better body image, increased performance and more vitality. Until now, the health effects of blood donation has been explored but not scientific. Now scientists have studied in a clinical pilot study, how the blood donation affects values such as blood pressure or blood lipids. These participants were taken twice at an interval four weeks approximately 300 milliliters of blood. After that, doctors have compared these results with the control group without blood...
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Keep cool with a high fever and febrile seizures in infants
When the immune system has to deal with pathogens, the self-healing of the body is often supported with fever. If fever is also a natural and very sensible defensive reaction, so high fevers and febrile convulsions should be closely monitored in infants and taken seriously. Of febrile seizures that occur only when the fever thermometer reads 39 degrees Celsius, mostly babies and toddlers aged 6 months to 5 years are affected. Where boys get frequent febrile seizures than girls. Who witnessed a febrile seizure of a small child for the first time, will be very scared and worried. Especially parents react anxious and panicky, because they are often perplexed and overwhelmed. Do not know how to deal with the situation. For a febrile seizure plagued by child can fall into unconsciousness with upturned eyes. Often arms and legs are...
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Christmas shopping free from stress
The closer to Christmas, the more stress threatens the gift purchase. But there are tricks to make the last shopping trips not dampen the mood and still be successful. First up is the meticulous preparation of purchases with room for downtime. Christmas Shopping without stress? Especially families fear the recent purchases, when the shops are full and time is short. Helpless “Something purchases” are not the solution, because they miss the sense of the gift. The trick then is to plan your purchases and good to take time out. Who feels the gifts Marathon as stress, could thoroughly plan ahead. However, very young children should not be taken as possible. Two families can in such cases, help each other with childcare and give each other the a few free hours for shopping. The feast of charity may assume cast...
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