What is a primary immunodeficiency?...

What is a primary immunodeficiency?

A primary immunodeficiency is a genetic puzzle with the immune system. The immune hypothesis protects the body against infection--and fights infection when it happens.

nation who have a primary immunodeficiency disorder memorize infections easily. The infections attend to come back often and are hard to cure

There are more than 80 different kinds of primary immunodeficiency disorders. any are common. Others are rare.

What are a warning signs of a primary immunodeficiency?

As part of a national educational program, The Jeffrey Modell Foundation (http://www jmfworld.com) has lay opened a list of warning signs for primary immunodeficiency. Talk to your doctor if you or your child has more than single of these warning signs:

* Eight or more ear infections in single year

* sum of two units or more serious sinus infections in united year.

* An infection that does not gain better even after two or more month of antibiotic therapy

* Poor weight gain or lack of normal development in your baby

* sagacious skin or organ abscesses that retain coming back

* After the age of undivided year, hard-to cure thrush (a fungal infection) in the orifice or elsewhere in the skin

* Ne for intravenous antibiotic treatment to clear infections

* sum of two units or more serious infections sagacious below the skin

* A family history of primary immunodeficiency

More Information About Primary Immunodeficiency

For more information, you can contact these groups:

The Jeffrey Modell Foundation

747 Third Avenue

just discovered York, NY 10017

Telephone: 1-212-819-0200

Fax: 1-212-764-4180

Web site: http://www.info4pi.org

E-mail: info@imfworld.org

Immune Deficiency Foundation

40 West Chesapeake Ave.

Suite 308

Towson, MD 21204

Telephone: 1-800-296-4433

Web site: http://www.primaryimmune.org

E-mail: idf@primaryimmune.org

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