General factors that influence the immune responses in children

Dulwich College Suzhou

Abstract

The research paper is written with the aim to identify different factors that influence children’s immune responses. Five theories are explored on children’s susceptibility to certain diseases and their lack of susceptibility to others. Aspects that are explored in this paper are children’s levels of immunoglobulin production, their cytokine production amount, their underdevelopment of receptors, their asymptomatic nature to certain diseases, and environmental factors. Through exploring different studies on child immunity, the paper concludes that the susceptibility of children to diseases largely depends on the type of disease and the individual’s immune system. Future research is clearly required to identify a smaller scope of the factors that influence children’s immune responses to provide a more detailed reasoning in the causes of children’s proneness to certain diseases and their lack of susceptibility in others.