YOGYAKARTA - Immunity is grouped in several types. Understanding the type of immunity and how it works will help you as a parent in providing the best protection for children. For more details, see the explanation below.
Immunity of the child is divided into two types, namely adaptive immunity (adaptive immunity) and innate immunity (innate immunity). Here's the full description:
Adaptive immunity is a form of protection for the child's body after being exposed to foreign substances, such as bacteria or viruses.
When your little one's body is exposed to foreign substances, your immune system will produce antibody cells that are tasked with fighting and remembering these foreign substances.
Getting immunizations according to schedule is needed to stimulate the formation of small adaptive immunity in order to avoid infection.
This type of immune can be temporary or lifetime, depending on the type of foreign substance and the condition of the child's health.
Immunity is a form of body defense since birth that functions as the first layer of resistance against various pathogens that cause infection and disease.
The innate immune system provides a direct response to all forms of foreign substances that enter the child's body.
Without having to know it first specifically, this type of innate immune can distinguish body cells and pathogens.
Reporting from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention page, below is an explanation regarding active immunity and passive immunity:
Active immunity is an immune type that is formed from the immune response of the body due to direct exposure to pathogens or disease-causing organisms.
This immunity can be obtained naturally through infection or artificially through immunization with a vaccine. In both ways, the body will produce specific antibodies to fight the pathogen.
Immunity obtained after recovering from disease or vaccine will generally last a long time, some even for life.
In contrast to the active immunity produced by the body, the passive immune system is obtained from outside the body in the form of antibodies to a disease.
For example, newborns get passive immunity from Mama's body in the form of Mama's antibodies that flow through the placenta.
passive immunity can provide protection immediately, but only lasts a while in a matter of weeks or months.
When immune cells detect antigens such as bacteria, fungi, or viruses, the immune system will become active. Subsequent immune cells will trigger an initial defensive response through skin congenital immunity and inflammatory response.
If successfully penetrated, the adaptive type of immune system will function against infection with the help of lymphocyte T cells and lymphocyte B.
Limphocyte T helps destroy infected cells and lymphocyte B produces antibodies that mark pathogens to make them more easily paralyzed by other immune cells.
Limphocytes T and B will also "remember" the pathogen so that the body will respond more quickly and effectively when the same pathogens re-enter the other day.
That's a review of the type of immunity and how the system works. Hopefully this information will be useful! Visit VOI.id to get other interesting information.
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