Giving anti -virus to prevent the virus from dividing
Depok (ANTARA) – Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia (FK-UI) Prof. DR. Dr. Budi Wiweko, SpOG (K), MPH said vaccination helps to prevent infections for which there is no cure.
“In principle, every cell in our body has an ‘identity or ID card’ so that immune cells recognize it as a friend, not an enemy,” said Prof Budi in his statement in Jakarta, Tuesday.
However, he continued, there are times when the body’s cells have problems with their ID cards so that they are not recognized by immune cells, as a result of course immune cells will attack the body’s own cells. This is known as ‘auto immune disease’.
How do immune cells react when foreign cells enter the body, it can be in the form of a bacterial or viral infection. Basically, since it was formed, immune cells have been ‘schooled in the thymus gland’ to be able to recognize their enemies well and not attack their own comrades.
“When bacteria or viruses enter, the body will build up its strength by mobilizing its immune cells from various layers. There is a ‘first layer, there is a second layer and there is a third layer’ as the last fortress, so Allah SWT created it very perfectly,” he said. Deputy Director of IMERI – FKUI.
The first layer of immune cells that we are most easily acquainted with is the skin, how the skin is regulated by moisture and the many immune cells under the skin tissue as our first line of defense.
If the first line has not been able to repel the enemy, then the intermediary cells will be released that will call reinforcements and release various substances to destroy the enemy. These cells are known as ‘cytokines.’
Minor infections can generally be solved in the first level, but for viral infections (which are inside cells) he needs greater reinforcements to destroy the virus as well as the cells it infects.
“Can a viral infection go away on its own? The answer is not always,” he said.
The first depends on the degree of infection. Besides, ‘type and amount of infecting virus and level of immune cell toughness’ will determine people’s response to viral infection.
“HIV infection, for example, is a very dangerous viral infection, because the HIV virus will damage the immune cells of the human body so that the body’s defenses become completely paralyzed. It is conceivable that a person with AIDS could die just from being infected with tuberculosis. This is because AIDS patients have lost 100 percent endurance,” said Prof. Budi.
Other viral infections that we can see for example infection with the HPV virus = human papilloma virus as a cause of cervical cancer. This HPV virus will trick the immune cells in the cervix of women. By ‘using a fake ID,’ the HPV virus will continue to damage a woman’s cervix so that it can become cancer without the woman’s immune cells realizing it.
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When someone is infected with the Sarscov-2 virus, the principle is the same, the infected person’s immune cells will immediately react and call their troops to kill the virus. Most will be successful and successful so that there are no symptoms or only mild symptoms. A small number did not succeed because the Sarscov-2 virus managed to ‘trick the immune cells’ of infected people into falling into severe conditions.
In severe conditions, the virus continues to damage the cells it attacks, especially lung cells, causing people to run out of oxygen. The exaggerated response of the intermediate cells (despite the aim of calling for reinforcements) was not wholly successful. This reaction is referred to as a ‘cytokine storm’ which can actually damage all organs of the human body.
“Therefore, our efforts in dealing with patients infected with COVID-19 are to prevent the disease from falling into severe conditions. Various vitamin, micro-nutrient and zinc supplements are given to activate our immune cells so that Sarscov-2 does not lie. In moderate cases, anti-virus is given to prevent this virus from continuing to divide and multiply in the body,” he said.
The best course of action is to avoid and prevent Sarscov-2 infection by following strict health protocols and ‘vaccinations’.
Vaccination is part of human efforts to ‘educate immune cells’ so that they know their enemies better and can quickly destroy viruses before they can reproduce.
The way the vaccine works is by inserting a few foreign cells that have ‘enemy ID cards’ into the body so that our immune cells will quickly recognize and identify them. Usually at the first dose, our immune cells just undergo an exploration of the enemy, only at the second dose and so on our immune cells better recognize the potential enemy so that they quickly produce and deploy reinforcements to destroy the enemy.
“Know your enemy better, that’s roughly how vaccination will help us prevent infections for which there is no cure,” he said.
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Reporter: Feru Lantara
Editor: Zita Meirina
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