Treating diseases

• Ways to treat diseases


  • Medicines
  • Changes to diet
• Different medicines


  • Needed for each type of disease
• Treatments for communicable diseases


  • Antibiotics to kill bacteria
  • Vaccines
• Treating nutritional deficiency diseases


  Adding nutrients to the diet
• Genetic disorders


  Caused by genes
• genetic disorders


  Caused by genes, need treatment throughout life
• Hormone deficiency


  Lack of growth hormone
• Autoimmune diseases


  White blood cells attacking parts of the body
• Autoimmune diseases


  • Type 1 diabetes - pancreas stops working, insulin destroyed
• Drug


  Substance that affects the way the body works
• Medicine


  Helps the body to cure or manage the symptoms of a disease
• Antibiotic


  Medicine that helps people recover from infectious diseases
• Transgenic organism


  Genetic modification by adding DNA from another species
• Non-transgenic


  Genetic modification without adding DNA from another species
• Genetic modification


  Altering the DNA of an organism
• Fermenters


  • Provide the best conditions for transgenic bacteria to reproduce hormones
  • Include stirring paddles, temperature control, pH control
• Enzymes


  Substances that can speed up reactions