KOMPAS.com- Cytokine storms often cited as the cause of death for many people during a pandemic Covid-19 this.
In fact, cytokine storms this is not the name of a disease.
Cytokine storm is a syndrome that refers to a group of medical symptoms in which the immune system experiences too much inflammation.
As a result, the organs fail to function and lead to death.
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What is a cytokine storm?
Cytokine storms also don’t only occur in patients who have Covid-19.
This syndrome can also be experienced by autoimmune sufferers such as juvenile arthritis.
Cytokine storms can also occur during some types of cancer treatment.
Usually, this condition is triggered by an infection such as influenza.
A study of H1N1 influenza patients also found 81 percent of those who died experienced symptoms of a cytokine storm.
Summarizing the results of research by virolohi and immunology experts from Georgia State University in Atlanta, MUkesh Kumar, cytokine storms are triggered by viral infections in the body.
Viruses multiply very quickly after infecting cells. After that, the cells started sending out danger signals.
When each cell senses that something bad is happening, the cell responds immediately by killing itself.
“This is a protective mechanism so it doesn’t spread to other cells,” Khumar said.
If there are many cells doing this at the same time, a lot of tissue can die.
In Covid-19 patients, the tissue is mostly in the lungs.
When the tissue is damaged, the walls of the lungs’ tiny air sacs become leaky and fill with fluid.
This condition can cause pneumonia and oxygen deficient blood.
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When the lungs are badly damaged, respiratory distress syndrome will develop. Then the other organs began to fail.
According to Kumar, the number of cytokines produced by cells in response to Covid-19 infection is about 50 times higher than infection with Zika or West Nile viruses.
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