Post by Admin/ Traveler on Feb 7, 2019 20:26:33 GMT
This is actually how my illness started presenting, way back when I was younger than 7 yrs old. Lots of bouts with tonsillitis!
The first article is an easy to read one - the second one is the scientific report that the article is based on:
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We’re finally understanding why some kids get strep throat over and over again
An excerpt:
" A team of immunologists, pediatric physicians, and infectious disease researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology and University of California, San Diego decided to look more carefully at the immune responses different kids had to strep infections. What they found suggests that there are some genetic factors that determine whether a child is likely to get it recurrently. They published their results in Science Translational Medicine on Wednesday.
First, a quick refresher on what strep throat actually is. Roughly 600 million people a year worldwide get infected with group A Streptococcus, or Streptococcus pyogenes, which is a bacterium that causes your tonsils to swell up, often accompanied by a fever. It’s painful (and can be dangerous if left untreated), but antibiotics usually clear it right up. In some kids, though, it keeps coming back. Physicians call this recurrent tonsillitis, and they’re interested in figuring out what causes it because, well, you know how often the strep throat kid was out of school. On top of missing out on important education, children who get recurrent tonsillitis also have to take many bouts of antibiotics, which isn’t great for the current antibiotic resistance problem or for their gut flora. The problem was that no one knew what made certain kids so prone to multiple infections.
The Ja Jolla-UCSD team thought it might have something to do with the tonsils themselves. Tonsils are part of your immune system, which is why they swell during an infection just like lymph nodes do (that’s because of all the immune cells rushing in to try to heal you). Their job is to help identify incoming pathogens and raise the alarm if there’s an intruder. Certain types of infections tend to centralize in the tonsils, and strep is one of them. It follows that if some kids aren’t able to get rid of a strep infection (or keep getting infected over and over again), that maybe their tonsils aren’t working properly.
And that’s exactly what the researchers found."
And the scientific paper that the above article was based on:
stm.sciencemag.org/content/11/478/eaau3776
The first article is an easy to read one - the second one is the scientific report that the article is based on:
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We’re finally understanding why some kids get strep throat over and over again
An excerpt:
" A team of immunologists, pediatric physicians, and infectious disease researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology and University of California, San Diego decided to look more carefully at the immune responses different kids had to strep infections. What they found suggests that there are some genetic factors that determine whether a child is likely to get it recurrently. They published their results in Science Translational Medicine on Wednesday.
First, a quick refresher on what strep throat actually is. Roughly 600 million people a year worldwide get infected with group A Streptococcus, or Streptococcus pyogenes, which is a bacterium that causes your tonsils to swell up, often accompanied by a fever. It’s painful (and can be dangerous if left untreated), but antibiotics usually clear it right up. In some kids, though, it keeps coming back. Physicians call this recurrent tonsillitis, and they’re interested in figuring out what causes it because, well, you know how often the strep throat kid was out of school. On top of missing out on important education, children who get recurrent tonsillitis also have to take many bouts of antibiotics, which isn’t great for the current antibiotic resistance problem or for their gut flora. The problem was that no one knew what made certain kids so prone to multiple infections.
The Ja Jolla-UCSD team thought it might have something to do with the tonsils themselves. Tonsils are part of your immune system, which is why they swell during an infection just like lymph nodes do (that’s because of all the immune cells rushing in to try to heal you). Their job is to help identify incoming pathogens and raise the alarm if there’s an intruder. Certain types of infections tend to centralize in the tonsils, and strep is one of them. It follows that if some kids aren’t able to get rid of a strep infection (or keep getting infected over and over again), that maybe their tonsils aren’t working properly.
And that’s exactly what the researchers found."
And the scientific paper that the above article was based on:
stm.sciencemag.org/content/11/478/eaau3776