Bacterial Effects on the Body Some Bacteria

Bacterial Effects on the Body Some bacteria produce a toxin that causes a flaccid paralysis, while other bacteria produce a toxin that causes all of the skeletal muscles to contract at the same time. In understanding these effects that such bacteria can have on the human body, one can begin to fully understand the root causes of these bacterial toxins as well as the full extent to which these toxins can cause damage.

Additionally, in beginning to understand the processes and complexities of each bacterial effect on the body, one can begin to understand the processes used by the body to repair areas that are damaged, such as the peripheral neuron. As mentioned, some bacteria produce a toxin that causes flaccid paralysis while others produce a toxin that causes all of the skeletal muscles to contract at the same time. In noting these facts, one can begin to ask the question of how these toxins cause their relative effects on the muscles.

Toxins are understood to produce varying effects on the body, depending on their origin and composition, and essentially, all toxins are poisonous, having some detrimental effect on the body, and in this case, the muscles. For one, when muscles are exerted, some toxins tend to build up, causing spasms. One such example would be the build-up of lactic acid, which is normally, over-time, filtered out of the muscles and out of the body entirely. However, sometimes muscles are too tight, and these acids and toxins are not fully released.

Such an occurrence can cause other things to build up, like cellular debris, cellular wastes, viruses and bacteria. Additionally, toxins like Botulinum, one of the most poisonous biological substances known, causes muscle paralysis, and is a neurotoxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, which has a severe effect on muscles upon contact (Nigam and Nigam, 2010, p.8). Bacterial toxins have the capacity to destroy the peripheral neuron.

For instance, one class of neurotoxins has the capacity to degenerate the structure of nerve cells, which can cause damage in the CNS or peripheral nerves (Schaumburg, 2007, p.1). In these cases, toxins not only attack nerve cells, but vigorously work to destroy them completely. In such a circumstance, the body will enact certain processes to combat this destruction, repairing the peripheral neuron and its respective damage to the best of its ability.

The stabilization of the body and the effected system relies on the ability of the body to act in self-repair mode, which requires no outside intervention from doctors or medical teams, but is based on the body's own ability to heal and regenerate itself in certain situations.

Peripheral nerves, for instance, do have the ability to regenerate, as long as the nerve cell itself has not been killed, and in situations where toxins have destroyed portions of the nerve, the entirety of this area is not fully lost in many circumstances (Lee and Wolfe, 2000, pp. 243).

Because of the peripheral nervous system's intrinsic ability to repair itself, the body utilizes this mechanism to stabilize the body after it has felt the effects of an injury or infection in order to regenerate new cells to replace those that have been compromised. In other circumstances involving damage to the body or any of its systems, such an injury would prove entirely detrimental or even lethal to the processes and actions upon which the body relies coming from these systems. The peripheral system's.