Herpes, warts and molluscum contagiosum: it's an epidemic among children.
The alarm raised by pediatricians: "The cause is the stress caused by the pandemic"
" Among children we are witnessing a great spread of dermatological viral infections, such as contagious molluscs, herpes and warts, even if never like in this period of anti-Covid measures have young people had few possibilities of infecting each other.
The cause can only be stress ."
This is what pediatricians report to the company A&RPharma, specialized in natural antiviral medical devices.
For 14 months we have been subjected to continuous messages of fear and death, not to mention the deaths that have affected many families; the health emergency has led to the isolation of even the most fragile people; children are now even afraid to play in public gardens to avoid being infected.
Distance learning (DAD) has created serious psychological distress, as teachers, doctors and psychologists have pointed out from many quarters.
The combination of these factors would have therefore caused an internal tension, an intimate suffering in the little ones that would have lowered their immune defenses, in particular against some viruses.
How to help the immune system regain balance?
In the April 2021 issue of “Le Scienze” we read that “according to biologists, about 380,000 billion viruses live on the surface of our organism and inside it, a figure ten times higher than that of bacteria. Some viruses can cause diseases while others can coexist with humans without problems.
The same cold sores once they settle in our cells never come out but may not cause problems even for a lifetime.
In short, nature almost always allows for an optimal balance of this coexistence. Until internal and/or external factors alter the behavior of our cells and viruses, which are also cells, not organisms, prevail.
Speaking of molluscum contagiosum, which mainly affects children up to 10 years old, it is caused by a virus belonging to the Poxvirus family and takes its name from the soft consistency of the papules that appear on the skin.
The infection causes itching and redness and is transmitted by direct skin contact or, more rarely, indirect contact (towels, toys...); however, the lesions can also spread by self-inoculation if the child scratches himself. This is why it is surprising that children are getting molluscum contagiosum while our lives are still conditioned by social distancing.
Immune system, this unknown!
We talk about it with Dr. Teodosio De Bonis from Milan, a specialist in anesthesia, resuscitation and systemic medicine, scientific director of Daphne Lab and author of 3 books.
How do our defenses work?
" It is a system of great complexity - explains the doctor - that scientists are trying to understand, both with increasingly precise basic research and by formulating general theories capable of reconstructing its functioning as a whole ."
The story
" Although the work of the English physician Edward Jenner, announcing the first vaccine that conferred immunity against smallpox, was published in 1798, the science of immunology is actually very young.
The main discoveries have been made in the last forty years, and many of them are not in the knowledge of most doctors. The teaching of immunology in the medical degree course was introduced in Italy towards the end of the eighties of the last century.
Everything changed when on February 23, 1953, American biologist James Watson and British physicist Francis Crick intuited and showed the world the structure of DNA, the molecule of life composed of an alphabet of four “letters”.
Summarizing in a few lines a multifaceted and ever-evolving topic is an exercise in high linguistic-technical acrobatics. Let's try.
Viruses are responsible for millions of deaths a year, but paradoxically, without them life would be impossible ."
How is immunity activated?
" The organism opposes the attack of a foreign agent with its defense mechanisms. Some of these mechanisms are pre-existing to the exposure to the foreign agent and do not have the capacity to discriminate.
Sweat, skin lysozyme and phagocytes constitute the natural defenses, the so-called natural immunity. The other defense mechanisms are activated by contact with the foreign agent, are specific for each single substance or agent and increase in intensity with each subsequent exposure to the substance itself. This is what is called acquired immunity.
Among the functions of the immune system, bombarded daily by external warnings, the Th1 Th2 responses , which are lymphocytic responses, stand out for their frequency and importance.
The Th1 response is oriented towards the direct destruction of viruses and bacteria considered 'enemies'. The Th2 response is directed in an antibody direction (occurs mainly in allergies): the cells stimulate the production of antibodies , which in turn destroy the intruders.
The nature and structure of the foreign agent select the type of response. Not all viruses induce a Th1 response. There are, for example, some pathogens, the influenza virus and the measles virus, that suppress the response .
Is there a relationship between the psyche and immunity?
"The dizzying evolution of our scientific knowledge and clinical evidence have led to the certainty that the human body is like a single system in which the Psyche, the Nervous System, the Endocrine and the Immune System interact, exchanging and correcting homeostasis."
How can we help our immune defenses?
"Fortunately, we have drugs and phytogemmotherapy plants capable of stimulating or correcting a deficit in the immune response and/or normalizing deficient immunostimulant functions."
Against the symptoms of cold sores, warts and contagious molluscs, the synergy of natural substances is very effective, such as: Copper Gluconate (breaks the bonds of viral DNA, blocking its replication and diffusion), Hyaluronic Acid (pharmacokinetic function), Cannabis sativa extract (anti-inflammatory), Prickly pear blade gel (healing), Zanthalene® extract (anti-itch)); Melissa officinalis, D Panthenol, Calendula, White mulberry, Lavender essential oil.
Herpaso Plus is suitable for the prevention and treatment of the first symptoms of cold sores.