It’s back to school, and every new school year brings new cold and flu viral infections. Learn how certain bifidobacteria fight off and reduce colds and flu infections.
It’s back to school, and kids are passing germs around like soccer balls being footed around school yards. As kids exchange viruses, the new or stronger viruses begin to replicate themselves within their cells – basically turning what were normal cells into clones for the virus.
For this reason, the cold and flu viruses that our immune system doesn’t recognize yet tend to gain the strongest foot-hold.
In addition, when kids are more stressed, they tend to get more colds and flu infections. This has been shown in a number of studies – as referenced in the study discussed below.
As those viruses begin to replicate among the kids, they get passed on to the adults. Then the viruses begin replicating among the cells of the adults, and pretty soon – they’re all over the place.
This isn’t to say that kids are necessarily ground zero to viruses. Many of these are replicating among different critters such as bats and birds long before they take hold on the young. And kids don’t necessarily get them first either. Sometimes cold and flu viruses start among the older adults with weakened immunity.
