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How Does Heavy Drinking Lower Your Immune System?

Heavy drinking lowers immunity by impairing your body’s normal defenses. One of the most significant effects of alcohol on the immune system is its effect on white blood cells. Excessive drinking can damage the bone marrow, where white blood cells are produced. This can lead to a low white blood cell count, making it more difficult for your body to fight off foreign invaders.
Alcohol has also been found to damage the white blood cells themselves. Specifically, excessive drinking can change the structure of macrophages (white blood cells that destroy foreign particles by ingesting them) and T-cells (white blood cells that stimulate the production of other white blood cells, called B-cells, that destroy foreign invaders).
Another way in which alcohol lowers your immunity is by promoting widespread inflammation throughout the body. Normally, the gut microbiome – a collection of “good bacteria” that live in your intestines – keeps inflammation at bay. When you drink too much alcohol, however, those bacteria are destroyed, allowing molecules called inflammatory cytokines to spread.
Cytokines are a group of chemical messengers that affect the behavior of cells. In particular, the cytokine interleukin-21 promotes the inflammation of cells. Not only does it play an important role in autoimmune diseases, but it also results in autoimmune-like effects in the presence of chronic low-grade inflammation — such as that caused by excessive drinking.

What Counts As Excessive Drinking?

When it comes to immunity, drinking any alcohol puts you at higher risk of getting sick. Drinking on even one occasion can have negative effects on your immunity – for example, by interfering with healthy sleep, which is known to protect against infection.
That being said, there is a big difference between moderate drinking and excessive drinking in terms of its effects on your body and its immune system. Moderate or infrequent drinking does not a

01/08/2021

Pterygium

A pterygium (plural pterygia) is a wedge-shaped growth of abnormal conjunctival tissue that forms on the eye. While they are benign (non-cancerous) and relatively harmless, they extend onto the cornea (the clear front ‘window’ of the eye) where they may affect vision.



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Pterygium symptoms

A pterygium can usually be seen as a fleshy, pink growth on the white of the eye, and may occur in one eye or both. They occur between the eyelids, most often in the corner of the eye, close to the nose, and extend onto the cornea.
Many people with a pterygium feel as if there is something in their eye. Symptoms also include dry eyes, irritation, inflammation and redness. They can also make it more difficult or uncomfortable to wear contact lenses.
If the pterygium extends onto the cornea far enough it can cause blurred vision as the curvature of the cornea is altered, and can also obscure vision.


Causes of pterygia

The main cause is almost certainly lifetime sun exposure - UV light. People who live in hot, dry, sunny regions and spend a lot of time outdoors have a higher chance of developing a pterygium than others. The risk is also increased by not wearing sunglasses or a sun hat.
Sports people such as sailors, surfers and skiers also have a high incidence because of the high levels of reflected UV light they encounter. Pterygia are also more common in areas where there is ozone layer depletion, such as New Zealand.
Pterygia usually occur in people aged 20 to 50, and are more common in men, probably due to an increased likelihood of outdoor work environment.


Pinguecula

A pinguecula (plural pingueculae) is very similar to a pterygium, and the two are often confused. However, a pinguecula occurs only on the conjunctiva (the thin, protective membrane that covers the surface of the eye), and will not grow across the cornea.


Pinguecula symptoms

It has very similar symptoms to a pterygium. It usually appears as a creamy-coloured or chalky gro