The immune system is crucial in protecting children from harmful germs and diseases.
What Does Your Immune System Do?
Your child's immune system acts as a defense network throughout their body. It:
- Fights off bacteria, viruses and other harmful microorganisms
- Recognizes threats by learning to identify dangerous pathogens
- Remembers past infections and builds immunity for faster recovery
- Promotes healing after illness or injury
- Regulates and maintains balance in body functions
Deficiencies of the immune protection system can lead to frequent, severe or unusual infections.
For example, sometimes, there's a problem with an overactive immune system. Instead of slowing down, it keeps responding. It can attack healthy tissue in the body rather than healing it. This can cause long-lasting pain and swelling (inflammation).
Conditions We Treat
When your child's immune system is not working properly, it can cause immune system disorders and autoimmune diseases. The conditions we treat include:
- Anaphylaxis and hypersensitivity
- Inflammatory and periodic fever syndromes
- Primary immune deficiency (PID) or repeat infections
- Weakened immune systems due to infectious disease or organ transplant
- Autoimmune and rheumatic diseases
Our specialist will need to perform thorough testing in order to create an effective treatment plan for your child's condition.