Frequent infections (infections) are always a manifestation of reduced immunity. We meet them often in childhood, because it is not yet fully mature immune systems and children are confronted with the most bacteria and viruses first. When against them creates an antibody may already get disease times (as is the case e.g. for varicella). Often the children diarrhea, when it is necessary to pay attention mainly on fluid intake to no small body dehydrated.

In adulthood, they are no longer uncommon infection (flu or tonsillitis once a year, etc.). Old people are already weak immune system, infectious diseases are more serious because they may not be frequent but if the patient is otherwise healthy.

Infections in the elderly

Elderly patients may have different associated diseases – heart problems, diabetes, kidney disease,hold urine, or have a cancer, so they also occur infection more often than not, they may have subtle course (the worse the state of immunity, the less significant are symptoms, and it is a serious situation – inflammation may be overlooked and undertreated!) should be only with mild temperatures instead rushes for pneumonia, etc.

For old people are infections due to reduced immunity, and poorer overall health status often threatening. The most common infections are among them pneumonia (pneumonia), flu and urinary tract infection.

Flu vaccinations are recommended especially in the elderly. Influenza may in fact complicate severe pneumonia.

Infections in diabetics

Frequent infections also suffers from diabetes (Diabetics). Again, this is primarily a disease of the respiratory and urinary tract. Urinary infection or outer genitals relatively easily due to the sugar in the urine, which is a good environment for the growth of bacteria. There are frequent cutaneous andmucosal inflammation – Candida infection in the mouth, fungal infection between the toes, herpes zoster, erysipelas (rose) and soft tissue infections related to the creation of so-called. Diabetic foot.So important is the care of the feet – of their vascularisation supported the movement and various creams and gels. Disease in diabetics tend vleklejší course and may be accompanied by deterioration of diabetes itself.

Essential for the treatment is not only cure the infection, but also stabilizing blood sugar levels requiring dosage adjustments of insulin. Always it is necessary to consult a doctor about it, and some states even require hospitalization!

Infections in immune disorders

Patients with any immune disorder have frequent infections. These are patients with cancer, particularly cancer of blood – leukemia wherein the tumor cells stem from cells of the immune system, thus from the white blood cells. These cells is much more than in a healthy person, but they are non-functional (diseased) cells that oppress healthy cells, which decreases to a minimum. In such a state, it is called neutropenia, a person can not help but inflammation. They need large doses of antibiotics and all kinds of rare long stay in hospital. A patient has the need to be a high fever, and yet it is a very serious medical condition, since there is as sepsis with multi-organ failure.Neutropenia can cause people after organ transplants (about the first month), which receive massive doses of immunosuppressive drugs (medicines that suppress the immune system to initially revolted against an adopted but the foreign body), in particular, are at risk patients after bone marrow transplantation (then again, often people with leukemia).

Blood cancer is treated with very aggressive drugs (chemotherapy), then there is not only to eradicate the diseased leukemia cells, but also the remaining healthy cells. Therefore today practicedharvesting healthy white blood cells prior to transplantation, to allow the cells after return to the patient again, and was not as compromised neutropenia and infections. People transplant is in the hospital in special spaces, which are designed around the bed of a special transparent material to slip through the patient slightest microorganisms. The latter are normally in any environment, even in the hospital, but the man with the preserved ability of the immune system in this concentration will not harm human transplant yes.

Failure humoral immunity

Patients with congenital disorder of humoral immunity (inability to form antibodies) or acquired during life (chronic lymphatic leukemia, myeloma, lymphoma, nephritis with nephrotic syndrome, which escape from the body in urine increased proteins – antibodies are namely proteins – just as is the case with burns) often suffer from infections caused by certain bacteria (antibodies is mainly applied in bacterial infections, viral dominated rather different kind of immunity). They are different infections of the respiratory system and, therefore, sinusitis, otitis media, pneumococcal pneumonia, as infections of the digestive tract ( “intestinal flu” with diarrhea and vomiting), urinary tract infection, skin infection and meningitis.

Impaired cellular immunity

Patients with impaired cellular immunity (impairment of T lymphocytes, i.e. a certain type of white blood cell) are particularly vulnerable to frequent viral, fungal ** ** and parasitic diseases. Among them already mentioned organ transplant patients, the treatment of immunosuppressive drugs (these drugs are used by people with various autoimmune diseases such as lupus, some inflammations thyroid and liver, some rheumatic diseases etc.), Hodgkin’s disease, but especially an HIV infection, which in advanced stage (in the treated patients to for instance 10 to 15 years after infection) exhibits frequent infections of all possible authorities – oral cavity (thrush, herpes …), the lungs (pneumonia, tuberculosis), gastrointestinal tract (esophagus with severe inflammation of the gut) , brain and other organs and body (yeast, sepsis).

Infections in allergy

Finally, I would appoint patients with allergies who respond increasingly to various allergenic stimuli, and smokers who undergo more frequent bronchitis because they have a chronic disorder of the airways. Even people who were tearing their childhood handle, they also suffer more inflammation of the lower airways. On the other hand, if you have more angina (angina more than three times a year), it is advisable to consult a doctor about the removal of the tonsils.

treatment of infections

Treatment depends on the infection and the main basic disease which encourages more frequent infections (tumor, immunosuppressants etc. see above). It is essential not only to treat some inflammation, but also to modify the immune status. It is in the hands of doctors to choose the best course of action.

If you have noticed that during the year marodíte more often than before, be sure to visit your doctor or immunologist! It may reveal that a serious illness, which you know so far, and which must be treated, or have just a little weakened immunity, and often you have a cold without some greater meaning.

Infection you may strain of absenteeism and increased fatigue. There are plenty of medications to strengthen immunity, except that it is good to eat lots of fruits and vegetables, and vitamins have obviously had an impact on your defenses.