Immunity boosting symptoms

There is no inevitable and unified "signature symptom" for improving immunity. A few people may experience brief mild discomfort reactions, but such reactions cannot be equated with "immunity is getting better", nor can they be used as the only criterion for judging immune improvement. Pathological problems must first be ruled out when discomfort occurs.

Two years ago, I met a 28-year-old girl who worked in Internet operations. She had abnormal lymphocyte subpopulation values ​​in her physical examination for two consecutive years. She always caught colds when the seasons changed. She had recurring allergies to dust mites and pollen. She even had diarrhea for two days after eating ice hot pot. After more than three months of adjustment, I ensured one egg and 300ml of pure milk every day, eating enough red meat twice a week, sleeping for 6.5 hours, and walking 3 kilometers twice in the middle of the week. Suddenly one afternoon, without warning, she developed a low fever, 37.8 degrees, with no nasal congestion, sore throat, or fatigue. She was so frightened that she had to go to the emergency room. I asked her to take an antigen test first, drank two cups of warm salt water and slept wrapped in a quilt for two hours. When she woke up, her fever was gone, and she was fine the next day. Later, I went to review the immune indicators, and all values ​​returned to the normal range.

This situation is a typical transient immune response - after the immune system adjusts to a normal state, it recognizes latent viruses and apoptotic cells that have been missed before, and triggers a short-lived inflammatory response during the clearance process. This is essentially a manifestation of normalization of immune function, not illness.

Speaking of this, it is inevitable to mention what many people call the "dizziness reaction." Many people will classify symptoms such as rashes, mild diarrhea, and fatigue as "disease signals" that improve immunity. To be objective here, there is currently no large-scale clinical study to support the correlation between dizziness reactions and immune enhancement in the academic world. My friends who practice traditional Chinese medicine have also mentioned that this type of reaction is only possible during the process of symptomatic treatment. Diarrhea and rashes caused by ordinary people taking supplementary supplements on their own are most likely due to allergies or irritating ingredients. Don't rely on "disease elimination".

In fact, most people will not feel any strong physical sensation when their immunity is improved. Those small changes that are easy to be ignored are much more reliable than the so-called "detoxification response". For example, before I had to drink two glasses of iced Americano in the morning to get through the morning, now I wake up after washing my face and I don’t feel heavy at noon. ； In the past, I had to wear an N95 all the time when I went to the park in the spring, otherwise I would keep sneezing. This year, I didn’t suffer from rhinitis after standing under the cherry blossom trees for half an hour to take pictures. ； Someone in the same department had a cold before, and if you came over and said a few words, you would be infected the next day. This time, half of the team fell down and you could still go to work normally. These are all signs that non-specific immunity and the mucosal immune barrier have become stronger. There is nothing earth-shattering, but it is more accurate than anything else.

Of course, there are completely different views. I talked about this topic with a friend from the Department of Infectious Diseases of Xiehe Union Medical College before, and his attitude was very clear: there is no such thing as "symptoms of increased immunity". As long as the body feels unwell, the first thing to consider is whether it is infection, allergies, or organic disease. Don't think it means that the immunity is upgrading. He has seen too many patients who took the low-grade fever in the early stage of pneumonia as "immune detoxification" and finally became seriously ill. This is really true. We ordinary people should not gamble. As long as the discomfort does not relieve for more than 24 hours, the body temperature exceeds 38.5 degrees, or is accompanied by severe pain, difficulty breathing, and confusion, don't hesitate to go to the hospital immediately.

I have been doing health management for almost 6 years, and I rarely mention "immunity-boosting symptoms" to users, because they really vary from person to person. Some people’s immune indicators are all recovered, but they don’t feel any physical symptoms at all. ； Some people may have chronic pharyngitis that has been bothering them for several years and suddenly get better. ； Some people even have acne that would break out if they stayed up all night before, but now it has disappeared the next day after staying up all night. There is no unified standard at all. Instead of scratching your skin and body temperature every day to see if there are any "signals of improvement", it is better to eat enough of the food you should eat every day, order less takeaways that are heavy in oil and salt, get enough sleep when you should, don't stay up until one or two o'clock and watch short videos, and exercise for half an hour three or four times a week. It is more effective than any health supplement. Oh, by the way, if someone tells you that "a detox reaction after taking a certain product means that the immunity is improving," don't believe it. There is a high probability that it contains laxatives or allergenic ingredients. It's purely IQ tax.

To put it bluntly, immunity is the moat of your body. The signal that it becomes stronger is never some earth-shattering "detoxification", but that you get sick less often, get better quickly when you feel uncomfortable, and have the energy to eat well and have fun every day. This is enough.