Inflammation - How it affects your health

Inflammation – the term used by both medical professionals and by laymen to a condition on part of our body. It is caused by our body’s immune system efforts to protect the body from stress like infection and toxic materials. Inflammatory condition is usually created by the activities of certain proteins that protect cells and tissues.

Inflammatory condition is visible when you have sore throat, swelling of glands or fever and it is good for your health because it protects our body by fighting infections. An inflammatory condition can also help you when you sense danger by releasing adrenaline to prepare you to flee away from the danger.

There is another kind that can result from the harmful bacteria; fatty foods that can be harmful to our body. It can affect the overall health in several different ways.

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

This kind of bowel disease may occur when our digestive track is attacked by the immune cells clustering around intestine. This manifests as diarrhea, ulcers or cramps. Or in worst condition may even require your intestine to be removed surgically. Many factors like stress, environment and genetics may cause this.

Inflammatory conditions can also occur in the joints resulting in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). RA may be caused by various factors like Vitamin D deficiency, Salty Diets and Smoking. While RA causes stiffness and pain in the inflamed joints, there is a risk of affecting patient’s other organs including the eyes.

Also an injury in any part of body could lead to an inflammatory condition. A bruise on the walls of the blood vessels or plaque in the arteries due to accumulation of fat can result in blood clots and may even lead to the a heart disease. The protein Interleukin-6 (IL-6) has been identified as the culprit causing all these problems.

People who are over-weight because of extra fat, unhealthy habits as well as people enjoying robust health can get attacked by inflammatory conditions like: rheumatoid arthritis, celiac disease etc. Since inflammation results in the slackening of immune regulation by the cells of the body, cancer cells begin to grow unchecked.

If several organs of our body are inflamed, it is likely to affect the growth of bones and could lead to loss of bones by preventing the replacement of damaged parts of the bone through development of new ones. The inflammatory conditions in gastro-intestinal tract, bowels and rheumatoid arthritis affects bone growth.

Being depressed can also cause inflammatory condition in brain