very interesting article.....
The interluken17 factor is really amazng and can be essential to killing cancers etc..but this autoimmune response for H1N1 may have to be regulated when a patient is getting worse in hospital - It makes sense...fascinating
I’d have to do some checking, but I think interferons might modulate interleukins.
I must have Interleukin 17. After 4 days with H1N1 I was losing consciousness and had 102 fevers and pneumonia. And I was in great shape and perfectly healthy before the flu.
I was taking, for weeks now, either 3000 or 4000 units of D3 a day, along with all kind of other healthful vitamins and supplements.
I just learned about this Interleukin 17 now. So I will dare to say that the Vitamin D3 is not enough to save you. I hope it did help. I'm still alive! :)
GET MEDICAL HELP if you are hit by this flu, especially if you are hit hard. Don't wait 4 days like I did.
Smokin’ Joe I pinged your list and some other freepers to a very interesting H1N1 article thread !
( First immunological clue to why some H1N1 patients get very ill or die (Interleukin 17))
Thanks Again , freeper decimon for the Head’s Up :)
I would advise great caution at this point. With the immune system, you seldom have a “good/bad” situation with any particular. Even a cursory read at the Wiki for Interleukin 17 shows that it is more appropriate to think of *them* as a “class” or “family”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleukin_17
Various levels of various kinds of IL-17 constantly change in response to a vast number of other interactive chemicals in the system.
While I wouldn’t expect anyone to actually read this interactive chart of biochemical pathways, it is a good indicator of the complexity of the system:
http://www.expasy.ch/cgi-bin/show_thumbnails.pl