Loading ...You got both quick replication of virus and immune reaction cytokine storm.
Most of us are past age of best immune system. If you want to boost your immune system do it before to try to prevent getting it but you’re immune system in the one case where lower lungs are infected will go into overdrive attacking cells too.
If you have the lower more severe form you’ll need to be hospitalized and given certain drugs. Like Ards “ acute “ sudden” respiratory distress syndrome. “
If it’s in your lower lungs or displaying symptoms get to the hospital.
Pathogenic human coronavirus infections: causes and consequences of cytokine storm and immunopathology.
Review article
Channappanavar R, et al. Semin Immunopathol. 2017.
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Abstract
Human coronaviruses (hCoVs) can be divided into low pathogenic and highly pathogenic coronaviruses. The low pathogenic CoVs infect the upper respiratory tract and cause mild, cold-like respiratory illness. In contrast, highly pathogenic hCoVs such as severe acute respiratory syndrome CoV (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome CoV (MERS-CoV) predominantly infect lower airways and cause fatal pneumonia. Severe pneumonia caused by pathogenic hCoVs is often associated with rapid virus replication, massive inflammatory cell infiltration and elevated pro-inflammatory cytokine/chemokine responses resulting in acute lung injury (ALI), and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Recent studies in experimentally infected animal strongly suggest a crucial role for virus-induced immunopathological events in causing fatal pneumonia after hCoV infections. Here we review the current understanding of how a dysregulated immune response may cause lung immunopathology leading to deleterious clinical manifestations after pathogenic hCoV infections.
PMID 28466096 [Indexed for MEDLINE]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28466096/