Barb: low complement and infections

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Hi Barb

You and I both have low C3 and C4. Deficiencies in the complement

system, according to the very basic info I have read, will affect

resistance to bacterial infections; it is less important in viral

infections. Could it be inherited low levels of the various

complements make us, and others with low levels in parts of their

complement system, more prone to these bacterial infections.

Low C3 and C4 are often implicated in auto immune disease as well, so

perhaps there's a double whammy at play here.

Cheers, Tansy

> > Barb

> > You really sound like someone that was born suffering mild

symptoms

> > of inflammation ilness till you grew up and got it to full blown

> > status. Did your mother suffer some form of inflammatory ilness?

or

> > where you born late in her life?

> > I tend to think leaving childbirth to later years carries all the

> > risks of undiagnosed infections retarding the full development

and

> > health of a child.Unfortuantely things in the autoimmune

deaprtment

> > often don't manifest until later in life.

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