Tuesday, January 29, 2008
How Would Your Body Respond If You Broke A Bone
When you break a bone, it disrupts the natural balance of your body. Your body will be wanting to be completely balanced again will try to heal the unbalanced thing that caused the body to be unbalanced. When you break a bone there is practically six stages to it. The stages are impact, induction, inflammation, soft callus stage, ossification, and bone remodeling. Stage one is where you basically break your bone from impact. Your bone absorbs enough of the blow for a bone tissue failure. The energy of the blow that fractured your bone is related to the volume of your bone and the rate your bone was hit. the second stage is when a lot of clotted blood forms in the bone tissue as a result of a broken blood vessel and later you can see inflammatory ells about two day after the impact (first stage). In the third stage, the arrival of inflammatory cells and the appearance of bone and cartilage production begins. The forth stage is just the cartilage and the bone tissue beginning to come back and reform back together. The fifth stage is ossification which is basically the hardening of soft tissue into bone-like material. By the sixth stage, your body has pretty much healed the bone fracture. The sixth stage is just the bone remodeling. In this stage bone that isn't wanted is removed and the bone marrow plus the geometric shape of the bone is fixed.
How Would Your Body Respond If You Are Infected With Bacteria
When we are infected with bacteria our body will try to get rid of it because it is foreign material in our bodies. Usually our body's immune system will send some cells to find and kill the bacteria. This method of taking care of bacteria usually works but sometimes it doesn't. If our immune system can't kill the bacteria fast enough, it becomes kind of a serious bacterial infection. In a bacterial infection, the bacteria reproduces itself faster than our immune system can kill them. Unlike viruses, the bacteria reproduce outside of our own cells. They don't use the host as a means of reproducing. When our immune systems can't kill these bacteria, we use antibiotics to give us a helping hand. Antibiotics are chemical drugs that kill bacteria for us. For some reason antibiotic drugs aren't exactly working as well as they used to. Bacterial resistance is becoming a problem that scientists will eventually have to solve before bacteria become immune to our antibiotics. Since the bacteria resisting our antibiotics, it is getting tougher to kill the bacteria. Bacterial resistance is caused mainly by the misuse of antibiotics. If bacteria keep on becoming resistant to the antibiotics there will be a huge problem of to cure bacteria if our body can't respond to the bacteria and get rid of it without the use of antibiotics. Our body will still be able to respond to the bacteria if they reproduce slower than our immune system can catch them and we will become susceptible to to the bacteria that have developed a resistance to the antibiotics.
What Happens When You Are Allergic To Something
When you are allergic to something you will get unpleasant hypersensitivities to things that other people wouldn't get hypersensitivities to. If you get exposed to antigens in insect venom, pollen, animal dander, or food you will get these unpleasant hypersensentivities. for bee stings the hypersensitivity you may experience is a bee sting reaction. For other antigens you may experience hay fever or asthma. these responses happen because the antigens start the production of antibodies that kind of stick with blood and tissue cells. The blood and tissue cells have a lot of substances with chemicals like histamine. Histamine is a mediator which has effect on the tissue and organs in the body. Mediators also make more white blood cells active. When the antibodies tell the cells to release the histamines you could start to sneeze, become itchy, and get teary eyes. Histamine can also make some muscles contract and begin to make blood vessels swell which in turn causes the airways in the lungs to tighten making it hard for the person to breathe. For people with allergies, they have antihistamines to reduce these symptoms. If you are really allergic to something you could get anaphylaxis which is the combination of allergic symptoms that could be life-threatening.
Symptoms of Some Allergic Reactions:
~For the skin, it could turn red and become pretty itchy. The skin might start to swell, start to blister, crust, a rash might also occur, and you might even get hives which are itchy bumps or welts.
~For the lungs, you might experience wheezing, tightness, cough, or shortness of breath.
~For the head, you could get swelling on your face, eyelids, lips, tongue, or throat. You could also get a headache.
~For the nose, it may become stuffy or runny. You will probably sneeze quite a bit.
~For the stomach, you might experience pain, nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea.
How Would Your Body Respond If You Are Infected With A Virus
In your immune system you have a lymphocyte called T4 (killer T cells). this lymphocyte helps the immune system respond to infections when they enter your body. The killer T cells will kill foreign things within your body. To kill these foreign items in your body, your killer T cells will latch onto the virus that matches its receptors and start to destroy it ultimately killing it. These foreign things in your body could be cells that have become infected with the virus you were exposed to and the foreign items could also be organisms who cause disease that wound up inside your body. So when you are exposed to a virus your killer T cells will respond and hunt down these foreign invaders. Killer T cells are able to find the foreign material because they have receptors on their outside surface. Only a few killer T cells have a receptor that matches a single antigen, each killer T cell has their own receptor that matches specific antigens. When a killer T cell has a receptor to certain viruses, it will only be able to make copies of itself to fight the virus when it finds the virus that matches its receptor. So each killer T cell has their own receptor to certain viruses and they can't fight other viruses if their receptors don't match up with that virus. If a killer T cell doesn't meet an antigen who has its receptor then it is called a naive T4 cell. when the T4 cell meets an antigen hat shares its receptor, then it will be called an activated T4 cell. When your killer T cells have defeated a virus, some of those cells that fought the virus stick around in your body as memory cells. These memory cells stay in your body in case you get exposed with the same virus again. With the memory cells, your killer T cells will be able to reproduce themselves at a faster rate and fight off the virus way more quickly than it did the first time.
What Happens Within Your Body If You Get Cancer
Cancer is a disease that you can get. Cancer forms in your body when cells in your body get out of control. When you are healthy, your cells divide to help you grow and and keep you healthy. When you get cancer, your cells begin to do weird things. Cancerous cells outlive your regular cells and they still keep dividing and multiplying. When the cancerous cels divide and multiply they are making more cancerous cells. That is really BAD!! If you get more specific to the reasons why cancer forms, it forms because there is damage to your DNA. When you are healthy, your other cells usually repair your DNA if it is broken. In cancer ells, the DNA doesn't get fixed. When you get a high enough amount of cancerous cells, your cancer usually develops a tumor. A tumor is a swelling of a part of the body, generally without inflammation, caused by an abnormal growth of tissue. Not every kind of cancer develops tumors, leukemia doesn't. If you have a cancer that doesn't make a tumor then the cancer cells associated with these involve blood and organs that make blood. When you get cancer, it also doesn't just stay in one, single place. It travels to other parts of your body. When the cancerous cells move to other parts of your body they start to grow and replace the normal tissue that was there already. Depending on the type of cancer a person has, it will behave differently from other cancers. The rates that each cancer grows are all different from each other.
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