💊Daily Pill: Acute Inflammation
What It Is and Why It’s Essential for Healing
The Daily Pill is a series of very short daily posts where I share the definition of a medical term I think we should all know. Read it every morning and build up your medical vocabulary.
You already learned about the Immune System. The next step is to learn about inflammation - Like a general survey, because there are different types of inflammation (7-8 by my count), so lets start with acute inflammation.
Acute inflammation is crucial for survival, actually - its that initial phase that protects your body from infections and injury, allowing healing to begin. More importantly for our purposes, when acute inflammation doesn’t resolve properly or keeps reoccurring and becomes chronic, it can lead to long-term tissue damage.
In short, understanding acute inflammation can help you identify early signs of infection or injury to take steps to support your body’s healing process and manage the response. (Continue Reading)
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