If symptoms of a cold are just the body fighting the cold, what is the real harm of being sick?
In: Biology
The symptoms are both your body reacting and impacts of the disease itself.
The disease is bad because its usually doing 1 of 2 things: eating you alive or screwing you to death.
Bacteria are normally the ones eating you… or at least the nutrients inside you. In that process they expel toxins that can kill your cells. Or they are just straight up attacking your cells to eat them.
Viruses are trying to attach to your cells to inject their genetic material to hijack the cell into reproducing the virus, eventually killing the cell.
So its a good thing your immune system is doing its job while your body’s other systems try to help, or you would die pretty quickly.
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