What Is Inflammation?
Inflammation
Definition of inflammation
- Inflammation, commonly known as inflammation.
- Refers to the physiological response of biological tissues stimulated by trauma, bleeding, or pathogen infection. These include symptoms such as redness, swelling, fever, and pain.
Inflammation
- The defensive effect of inflammatory factors on the body induces a local defense response, mainly defense. The main manifestations are tissue deterioration, exudation and tissue cell proliferation. Very common clinically. Inflammation of the face often manifests as redness, swelling, heat, pain, and dysfunction, accompanied by systemic manifestations such as fever, increased or decreased white blood cells, systemic mononuclear phagocytic cell proliferation, local lymphadenopathy and splenomegaly. Although inflammation is a defense response of the body, it is beneficial to the body. Aged, debilitated and malnourished people, the inflammatory response weakens under the stimulation of inflammatory factors, which indicates that the disease is serious. However, inflammation also has a disadvantage to the body. For example, hepatitis B does not heal for a long time, and sometimes nodular hyperplasia of hepatocytes occurs in the liver and a large amount of fibrous tissue is generated, causing liver cirrhosis and even liver cancer. According to the duration of the disease, it can be divided into acute (usually short duration, several days to one month), chronic (long duration, several days to several years), and subacute inflammation (course of disease between acute and chronic inflammation).
Pathological changes of inflammation
- Inflammation can be divided into basic pathological changes: Metamorphic inflammation. exudative inflammation. purulent inflammation. bleeding inflammation. catarrhal inflammation. Proliferative inflammation. In short, inflammation is a defensive response formed during the evolution of organisms and caused by the body's damage to inflammatory factors. Congestion and exudation through inflammation, so that tissues get more nutrients and antibodies. Can neutralize toxins, eliminate inflammatory factors, remove foreign bodies and tissue debris. The proliferation of inflammation helps in tissue repair. At the same time, the fever of the whole body reaction can promote the metabolism of the body, increase the number of white blood cells in the blood, strengthen the phagocytic function of monocytes, and increase the production of antibodies.
Inflammation caused by inflammatory immune disorders
- In general, inflammation is beneficial and is the body's spontaneous defense response, but sometimes it can cause allergies to the body's own immune system, which in turn attacks its own tissues and cells, such as rheumatoid arthritis and red lupus Allergic disorders of the immune system.
- These immune system allergies produce cox-2 and Interleukin-1 alpha, which cause pain and inflammation of cartilage tissue.
Causes of inflammation
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- Chemical stimulation (including substances produced by old and new metabolism-such as uric acid)
- Frostbite
- Toxins (including old and new metabolites)
- Pathogen infection
- Cell necrosis
- Physical damage, blunt or pointed
- Immune response caused by hypersensitivity
- Ionizing radiation
- Foreign objects, including debris, dirt
How to prevent inflammation
- 1. Pay attention to daily living, develop good living habits, prevent excessive fatigue, prevent colds, and carry out effective physical exercise.
- 2, drink plenty of water, avoid tobacco and alcohol, do not eat spicy food. [1]
Inflammatory anti-inflammatory agents
- If the inflammation is not caused by an infection, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents or steroids are used medically to suppress the inflammatory response. It is often referred to as "anti-inflammatory drug" in mainland China.
Inflammatory drugs
- If it is infectious inflammation caused by infection, you can use what people call "anti-inflammatory drugs" or inject "anti-inflammatory needles", which actually refers to antibiotics, which actually kill or inhibit the reproduction of bacteria, and cause inflammation caused by infection cut back.
Inflammation common inflammation
- dermatitis
- encephalitis
- Keratitis
- Conjunctivitis
- rhinitis
- Otitis media
- Gingivitis
- pharyngitis
- tonsillitis
- pneumonia
- hepatitis
- enteritis
- Dysentery
- prostatitis
- Endometritis
- Cervicitis
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Paronychia