we all have honorary immunology degrees

[smartyjones]

oops - i don't know how to edit the header - i meant shed any light?

 

from one of michaeltampa's posts

no antibodies means your immune system is too weak to make any? or does it mean no infection needing to be fought?

 

 

anyone care to comment? this is something i recently have been trying to wrap my head around and can't seem to get it. b/c obviously, if one rarely gets sick, you'd think they are healthy.

 

prior to pandas, i've thought my son was average as far as health. he was sick less often than my older son as a toddler. he'd get colds etc. but wasn't sickly - even looking back, i'd say he was average - not sick often, not never sick.

 

he did, however, occasionally (once every 6 months or so) run a fever or throw up and then get over it. i thought it was just how his body processed whatever had infected it. i now think it was latent strep rearing. no way to know now.

[peglem]

I wonder about this too.

The immunologist says if my daughter had a "true" immune deficiency that she would be sick all the time and seriously ill, enough to need hospitalization.

My daughter used to be sick with sinus infections and ear infections and abcessed teeth quite nearly all the time. (from ages 3-8 or so). Its only since we've been on abx that she's not

 

Something changed right in there around 8-10 yo...when she lost her speech...she was "sick" much less frequently, but behavior/motor skills (already poor) really took a huge dive...global regression in already poorly developed areas.

 

So, I wonder if earlier on if her immune system was fighting so hard and so long that it just became overwhelmed so that we no longer see a strong immune reaction-(fever, runny nose, cough, sneeze). When we did the pred. at the end of last Sept. she became ill immediately after. I was actually kinda thrilled that she produced a fever with that illness...a sign that her immune system was responding.