Immunopharmacology 2018

Paediatric Immunology

Paediatric Immunology is the division of immunology which deals with the allergies or infectious diseases that affects the infant’s immune system. These are rare disorders in which part of the body’s immune system that protects us from infection is absent or does not function properly. Infants are considered to be immunologically “immature” but in fact they may have immune systems that are capable of mature responses but are actively suppressed. Understanding the infant immunology is more important in the development of the vaccines, for example, HIV Vaccines for infants. This type of disorders is specially treated by the Stem cell or bone marrow transplantation which replaces a faulty immune system with healthy cells. The treatment for the paediatric immunological disorders or allergies is supervised by the specially trained paediatric immunologists.