Re: action of toxoid vaccines

[Guest guest]

'I'm guessing at the reaction time. I do know that the smallest

jab-test jab was enough to turn the flare off.It was amazing and it

may have occured after 10 minutes this happened 4 years ago.I am so

furious that something working so well couldn;t provide a platform

for permanent vaccination attempts.I actually wanted to study how to

make a vaccine after this experience.I juts thought it may be beyond

me to attempt a backyard vaccine creation program.

But on this list with all the study anything is possable.

tony

> If I recall, a toxoid is a molecule which is similar to a

(protein)

> bacterial toxin, but inactive. Inoculation with a toxoid should

provoke

> the production of antibodies which bind the actual bacterial

toxin,

> thus preventing it from carrying out its toxic action (and marking

it

> for phagocytotic destruction).

>

> This process ought to take awhile, I think, because the adaptive

immune

> system does not kick into gear too fast. But I am not 100% certain

how

> long it would take. Exposure to a new antigen requires days before

a

> response, but in this case prior acquaintance with the epitopes

might

> permit the body to react much faster (via epitope-specific memory

T-

> cells). Ten minutes is pretty damn fast tho, I am unsure whether

> adaptive immunity can gear up that quickly. I am not sure what

other

> avenues of fast activity might be possible.

>

> > Actually to give you an idea of the vaccine I put subdermally-

while

> > flaring/feeling miserable it stopped me almost after 10

minutes.Th

> > effect sort of lasts the day and the preceeding days aren't as

bad.

> > More later I'm out the door.

> > tony