Classification of toxins

Toxins - a poison to the human body, which is stored in it in the process of life. Food, water, air - everywhere there are toxins. They surround us on all sides, and there are more than 50 species.

Classification of toxins share their origin to endotoxins and exotoxins. Endotoxins - toxic substances, which are part of all bacteria and are released in the process of destruction. Exotoxins - toxic proteins, microorganisms that secrete antigen and have characteristics falling into the human body.

 

Endotoxins poisons the human body after its destruction. They accumulate in the body for a long time and multiply and cause death after inflammation in humans. At the same symptoms such as a fever, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, blood in the analysis is shown elevated levels of white blood cells. Endotoxins, getting into the blood, damage the lungs, liver, kidneys man, crying out bleeding or bleeding in these organs. The most dangerous action of endotoxins is that they can cause septic shock in humans.

Exotoxins in turn cause all infectious disease in the body. They are the causative agents of whooping cough, tetanus, diphtheria and other dangerous for the human life-threatening infections. Exotoxins are not resistant to high temperatures, but are highly toxic, produce antibodies in humans.

Toxins surround every human being and bringing harm to his body in contact with it to the external environment - food, water, air.