| Tim Fitzmaurice 2006-07-05, 2:31 am |
| On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Al wrote:
> Okay, well that makes sense about the immune system kicking in and
> causing the symptoms and not the viruses. So does that mean that when I
> have an outbreak and only get 1-2 lesions versus now when I got 10, it
> means that my immune is kicking in more?
I was more talking about the duration and severity of lesions having
more than one possible cause....in a normal lesion the virus is only
present for about 4 days and the lesions last after that as the
inflammatory process takes its effect. This one explanation given for why
the Valtrex 1 or 2 day dosing regime works as well as taking drug for the
duration ofd the lesion.
What I was trying to get over is that just becuase a bad attack hits you
dont just panic and assume there is some hideous problem with the immune
system, there is much more to a disease process success, spread and
severity than the human hosts response, and many people inmy experience
can get a bit humanocentric and look just at the human body rather than
everything else that can be involved. Also another common view about the
immune system is that strong response=good and weaker response=worse -
this isnt true as the iimmune response is a balance between strong enough
to destroy the infective agent and weak enough to not cause problems to
the host....too much either way causes problems - at the extremes on one
side you have immune deificiencies, on the other autoimmunity.
Tim
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