Prevent the Flu: Boost Your Immune System

What is Flu?

Flu is a communicable respiratory illness caused by the virus. It affects the nose, throat, and lungs. For most people, it resolves on its own but sometimes it can lead to death.

Symptoms of Flu

Flu is different from cold as it usually comes on suddenly.

Common symptoms of flu are:

·         Fever over 100.4 F

·         Headache

·         Cough

·         Sore Throat

·         Muscles and body ache

·         Vomiting

·         Running Nose

Causes of Flu

Flu virus travels through the air in the droplets when someone with the infection coughs, sneezes, or talks. It can be inhaled directly or germs can be picked up from any objects like telephone, keyboard etc.

Risk factors

Following are the factors which may increase the risk of influenza or its complications:

·         Age. Children below the age of 12 months and adults above 65 years are more prone to infections.

• Living or working conditions. People who live or work in crowded areas are more likely to develop influenza.
• Weakened immune system. If you have a weakened immune system then you are at the risk of flu complications as your immune system cannot fight against infections such as pneumonia.
• Chronic illnesses. If you are suffering from any chronic conditions such as asthma, diabetes, heart disease, neurological or neurodevelopmental disease, an airway abnormality, and kidney, liver or blood disease, then you are at the risk of flu complications.

         How the immune system fights Flu?

      When the flu virus enters the body the immune system starts to fight. The Immune system is of two types: the innate system and the adaptive system.

As soon as body sense infections, the innate system produces proteins called cytokines and chemokines. Cytokines works immediately and starts attacking virus and chemokines works with the adaptive system to produce T cells. These are special types of WBC that works in a specific way. They find the flu virus and create unique molecules on their surface that find and destroy similar viruses.

What is the treatment of Flu?

Treatment of Flu includes home remedies like taking rest, avoiding physical exertion. Medical treatment for the flu can be antiviral drugs.

How flu can be prevented?

By maintaining personal hygiene you can avoid flu to some extent but the best means to prevent the flu is to boost your immunity, so , to increase the immunity studies have shown that the Cow colostrum is an effective and practical solution to it.

Dengue Fever and Cow Colostrum

Overview

Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease that is a major public health threat globally. It is caused by the dengue virus (DENV, 1–4 serotypes), which is one of the most important arboviruses in tropical and subtropical regions. Since the mid -1990s epidemic of dengue have become more frequent in India. The total number of dengue cases has increased since 2001. In addition to the increase in the number of cases, a shift to geographical reason has been also observed. Earlier Dengue was found in urban areas only but it has shifted to rural areas too. Major causes of increases in cases are because of unplanned urbanization.

Dengue

Symptoms of Dengue fever:

Symptoms usually begin 4 to 6 days after infection and last up to 10 days, which may include,

·         Sudden/high fever

·         Severe pain

·         Pain behind the eyes

·         Fatigue

·         Joint Pain

·         Nausea

·         Skin rashes etc.

Treatment of Dengue Fever:

No specific treatment for dengue fever exists. The doctor may recommend that to drink plenty of fluids to avoid dehydration from vomiting and a high fever.

Prevention from Dengue fever

Protect yourself from mosquito bite

Make sure there is no waterlogging around

Wear full sleeve clothes

Cow Colostrum as a Protector from dengue:

With the season for rain and flood around, dengue and other form of respiratory infection is more likely to happen. The administration of colostrum preparation from cows can help in preventing infections associated with a depressed immune system.

Colostrum can activate microphage directly.

Gut-associated lymphoid tissue is the biggest macrophage pool in the body. Plenty of macrophages exist in the payer’s patch & colostrum’s aims to activate these macrophages directly. Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)

Nocturnal Leg Cramp

 What is Nocturnal Leg Cramp?

Leg Cramp which is also known as “Charley Horses” is a condition in which your leg muscles get tightened. Generally it occurs in calf muscles but can also occur in feet and thighs. After cramping has passed you can have pain for several hours. Usually leg cramps happen at night and such type of cramps are called “Nocturnal Cramp”.

How do I know if I have Leg Cramp?

There are many other conditions which have similar symptoms to leg cramps. Your doctor can review the symptoms and confirm whether you have leg cramps or not. He can ask for the tests to rule out other conditions.

What causes Leg Cramp?        

Sometimes the cause of leg cramps is Idiopathic (Unknown). In other cases, there can be underlying conditions or another identifiable reason.

Idiopathic leg cramps

In spite of the fact that the cause of idiopathic leg cramps is unknown, there are many theories about what might cause idiopathic leg cramps. These include:

·         Abnormal nerve activity during sleep.

·         Excessive strain placed on leg muscles during exercise.

·         Abnormal blood supply

Also, tendons naturally shorten over time as a person grew older, which is the reason why older people are particularly affected by leg cramps. Tendons are the tough band of fibrous tissue which connects muscles to the bone . If the tendons become too short, they may leads the muscles connected to them to cramp.

Secondary leg cramps

Secondary leg cramps are caused by an underlying conditions or another identifiable cause. These include:

·         pregnancy

·         exercise

·         neurological conditions

·         liver disease

·         infection

·         toxins

·         dehydration

How Tocotrio can cure leg cramp?

Tocotrio relaxes cramps by supporting blood circulation in legs by vasodilation, Improves regulation of ca and mg content, improves glycogen storages in muscles and also prevents oxidation of certain radicals.

What makes tocotrio better than the tocotrienol supplements of same range?

1. It has 70% higher cellular uptake than alpha tocopherol.

2. Higher recycling efficiency in cell.

3.100% more antioxidant than alpha tocopherol