Question | Answer |
Difference between antibiotics and vaccines? | Antibiotics help kill only bacteria when you are sick. Vaccines give you a weekend form of the disease and your body remembers it which makes you immune to that disease. |
Allergy | When your body reacts to a certain substance. |
Antibiotic | A medicine that only kills bacteria. |
Asthma | An allergy that is in the respiratory system. Makes it hard to breathe. |
Atherosclerosis | A fatty substance that builds up on the inside walls of your arteries. |
Pathogen | An AGENT that can cause a COMMUNICABLE disease. |
Bacteria | Tiny one-celled organisms that can be helpful, harmful and neither. Usually reproduce best in dark, mis, warm places such as the human body. |
Preventing disease | Plenty of sleep, exercise, balanced diet, drink lots of water, avoid smoking/drugs and alcohol and get vaccines. |
White Blood Cells | A cell that fights off pathogens. Sometimes it doesn't succeed and certain white blood cells create antibodies that act as another line of defense. |
Examples of Communicable diseases and how they spread | 1. Malaria - infected mosquitos, carriers, bite humans, 2. Cold/Flu - diseased person sends pathogens out by sneezing or coughing (airborne), 3. Salmonella - spreads through food: poultry and eggs, 4. Cholerra: polluted water |
Examples of Noncommunicable diseases | Emphysema, Allergies, Cancer, Antheroscelorosis, ADD/ADHD, Organ defects |
Cancer | An uncontrollable growth of abnormal cells |
Cardiovascular Disease | A disease that affects the heart of blood vessels. |
Communicable Disease | A disease that can be spread person to person and is caused by a pathogen. |
Emphysema | A disease that develops in the respiratory system. The air sacs are damaged. Usually caused by smoking. |
Immunity | The body's resistance to a disease through the presence of antibodies. |
Noncommunicalbe Disease | A disease that can't be spread. Not caused by pathogens. |
Antibody | Made by certain white blood cells that attach to a pathogen and make it harmless |