Robert Whitfield MD explains how your immune system reacts to foreign objects in tissue. Chemotherapy patients get colony-stimulating factors to boost white blood cells and prevent infection. Ruptured devices with bacterial contamination trigger oxidative reactions that activate immune responses.
And the world is not flat. That interaction can happen between the tissue and the device that's not intact anymore. And that, you know, anything that's in contact with your tissue that is foreign causes reaction and that revs up your immune system. Now, everybody will have a different response to that. I'm not saying that, you know, everybody's gonna get sick from that, but there's gonna be a response. Unless you're immunosuppressed and you can't respond. So explain that. So if you're immunosuppressed, you can't mount a response. Okay. And that's why, you know, when people are getting chemotherapy, they have really, really depressed white blood cell counts. And they give the. They don't wanna get it too low, so they'll give them growth colony stimulating factor. They'll, they'll try to raise it to keep them above a threshold so they don't get sick. So. But in everybody else who's normal walking around that will have a reaction. We just don't know exactly, in you or I, what's going to happen with that material in contact with our tissue. Um, I already know that if it's not ruptured and I have bacterial contamination. I know there's an interaction back and forth, and this oxidative reaction takes place and produces a molecule that stimulates the immune system. I don't think it's really complicated to think that something that's ruptured and leaking would do something similar. Yeah. Yeah, I think that that seems logical. Yeah. So I always advise my patients who, you know, and my team knows this.
