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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
It does for kids Dr. Pepsi, there are 2 parts to the immune system.
- innate immune system, This is your child's rapid response system. It is the first to respond when it finds an invader, the innate immune system is inherited.
- acquired immune system, it makes special proteins ( antibodies) to protect the body from a specific invader, these antibodies are developed by cells called B lymphocytes after the body has been exposed to the invader, after exposure, the immune system will recognize the invader and defend against it, the acquired immune system changes during your child's life. Immunizations train your child's immune system to make antibodies to protect them from harmful diseases.
Kids absolutely need exposures, it's not a fluke that children's hospitals are being over run by RSV outbreaks.
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How did you read that article, copy and paste it here, and still fail to understand how the immune system works?
It’s not like a muscle that needs exercise (exposures) to be strong. That’s a dumb analogy. If you carried that analogy to it’s natural conclusion, your muscle would eventually get so strong it kills you. Is that what happens? Are your biceps eating your brain? Jury is out.
The only “training” that you’ll see referred to in that article is immunizations, because that’s the closest comparable. It helps the body learn to make antibodies without giving the body the sickness or disease.
You’re right about literally only one thing: RSV outbreaks overrunning hospitals aren’t a fluke. This is because RSV is just one of the things contributing to overrun hospitals, and because the first RSV infection is most often the worst, and more kids are getting their first exposure at the same time. So it isn’t because their “body needs exposures! training! muscles!” it’s that the exposure you’re suggesting kids need is just happening at the same time, which is fairly unique. There aren’t more kids coming down with bad cases of RSV because their immune systems weren’t hitting the gym, it’s the same amount as usual just clumped into a tighter timeframe (as this increase follows a large drop).
This is all according to the Journal of Infectious Diseases, doctors at the Alberta Children’s Hospital, and a handful of doctors and professors out of Ontario when speaking on this topic. But you’re the expert I guess.