2023-05-24 14:00:18
Men’s cold and gender differences in the immune system: Be strong, men! This is the topic of the new episode of The Sex Gap, a podcast by gesundheit-listen and Apotheken Umschau on gender-sensitive medicine. Podcast host Kari Kungel explores the question of whether men and women react to viruses and diseases in the same way – or whether there is a “sex gap”.
They often suffer greatly – and according to the official definition from the Oxford English Dictionary, they “exaggerate” the severity of the symptoms. But what is it about men’s colds – and where does the myth come from? In the new podcast The Sex Gap – The podcast on gender equitable medicine the health journalist Kari Kungel, together with experts, gets to the bottom of the question, what happens to pathogens in the body, why women have autoimmune diseases more often than men and what role the X chromosome plays in the immune system. And it’s not that small. Women not only have an advantage when it comes to viruses – for example, after a hepatitis C infection, 40 percent of women spontaneously get rid of the virus, but only 19 percent of men. Women also often react more strongly and better to vaccinations. “Infectious diseases in men are more common and often more severe”explained Martin PrelogProfessor for the field of pediatric rheumatology and special immunology at the University Hospital Würzburg.
Looking at the data from the Corona-Pandemics It is noticeable that men often had severe courses, two thirds of the deceased patients were male according to the RKI. Other pathogens, for example tuberculosis or hepatitis B, are more common in men and often have a more severe course. But why is that – and what does that mean for men’s colds? In short: at the Geneticam lifestyle and the hormones. However, the stronger immune system of women also has a disadvantage, because they are more susceptible to Aautoimmune diseases affected, in which the body turns against itself. So the immune systems of men and women are different – does that mean that men really suffer more from colds and colds?
Men, now you must be strong. Because the The thesis that men are sicker when they have a cold has not been scientifically proven. At least one thing is certain: Women’s immune systems are stronger than men’s. While men and women seem to get sick the same way, women may get it but recover sooner. Maybe a man’s cold isn’t necessarily worse than a cold in women. But it could take longer.
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“The Sex Gap” – the new podcast on gender-sensitive medicine
If a woman goes to the doctor – that’s not the start of a good joke, but rather the beginning of medical discrimination. Because the man is often “the norm” in medicine. This is dangerous for girls and women: Symptoms such as ADHD are overlooked, drugs such as sleeping pills are overdosed. This can endanger the lives of patients. What is going wrong, what needs to change? Health journalist Kari Kungel tackles “The Sex Gap,” the new podcast on gender-sensitive medicine health-hearing and the pharmacy magazineas a podcast host, in search of answers and talks to experts and those affected.
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