IMMUNOCOMPETENCE IS KEY TO COLD DEMISE
When pitted against cold or flu viruses, the immune system eventually always wins. But the speed with which a person’s immune system can wipe out a cold or flu is largely governed by his or her immunocompetence. In viral infections, immunocompetence focuses on the speed at which specialized white cells can manufacture antibodies and other virus-fighting immune system components.
In a person with low immunocompetence, a cold may linger on for ten to fourteen days before the immune system can finally muster sufficient antibodies to destroy it.
In a person with average immunocompetence, a cold typically lasts about seven days. A person with moderately high immunocompetence may be rid of a cold in only four days.
But a person with optimal, peak immunocompetence can often recover from a cold completely within twenty-four hours.
New research is showing that many of the therapies which have been suggested in the past, such as taking vitamin C or zinc gluconate lozenges, are effective boosters of immunocompetence.
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