How to improve immunity to school going children

After a long gap due to pandemic, students started to go to school now. The question in every parent mind is how to protect their children from infections, how to make their children happy and healthy. Here are few things which need to be followed as routine for the health of their wards. Healthy diet […]

Effect of stress on immunity

When we’re stressed, the immune system’s ability to fight off antigens is reduced. That is why we are more susceptible to infections. The stress hormone corticosteroid can suppress the effectiveness of the immune system (e.g. lowers the number of lymphocytes). Stress can also have an indirect effect on the immune system as a person may […]

Role of immunity in fungal infections

There are huge number of fungi in the world around 1.5 – 5 million species which have the ability to grow almost anywhere including the ocean, soil, plants and animals. Some form spores which we inhale on a daily basis (e.g. Aspergillus species) and others live as human commensal organisms (e.g. Candida species).  Fungi can cause disease in humans, from […]