Infection: Detection Body's Defenses Against Infection

The network of cells, tissues, and organs that all work together to keep the body healthy and fight infection.

• Skin

• Mucus

• Immue System

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The immune system helps protect our body in two ways and protect itself from illness.

• Nerve System

• Human body

• Blocks invaders from entering the body.

• Destroys and removes germs if they do make it inside the body.

Sweat glands in the skin produce sweat that helps wash away germs on the skin's surface.

• Lymph Glands

• Skin

• Tonsils

• Cilia

They trap and destroy invading germs before they can get any further into the body.

• Viruses

• Tonsils

• Lymph glands

• Mucus

• Germs

A Sticky, gooey, substance found in the nose and along our respiratory tract.

• Cilia

• Stomach

• Spleen

• Mucus

Nodes are small, round structures found throughour the body, such as in the neck.

• Mucus

• Cilia

• Tonsils

• Lymph Glands

They work to filter and remove any invading germs that get through the lymph glands.

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• Liver

• Spleen

What is the purpose of the liver?

• Poison, protecting the body from additional harm.

• Acid found in the stomach can break down invading germs that make their way into the body with our food.

• Acts to detoxify poison, protecting the body from additional harm.

• Help make the body a less favorable environment for germs to live.

Acid found in the stomach can break down invading germs that make their way into the body with our food.

• Fever

• White Blood Cells

• Stomach

• Liver

When unwanted germs invade, your body reponds by turning up the heat.

• Fever

• White Blood cells

• Spleen

• Liver