Lymphatic system

Lymphatic system is a part of vascular system which successfully adds venous and takes part in a metabolism.

Important function of lymphatic system is a conclusion of foreign bodys from circulatory system, and also clarification of fabrics and cells. From fabrics of bodies liquid arrives at first in limfosisty where it is filtered by means of lymph nodes, and after already lymph on large vessels gets to the chest lymphatic canal where from a thorax falls into a large vein.

The limfosistema consists from:

• The capillaries forming networks in all bodies and fabrics and intended for a liquid conclusion;
• The vessels formed of connections of capillaries. Vessels have valves thanks to which the lymph moves only in one direction;
• The nodes interrupting vessels and dividing them into the vessels entering a node and leaving it. In nodes the lymph leaves all foreign bodys and microbes, and also is enriched with lymphocytes and on other vessels goes to chest lymphatic current and the right lymphatic current.

It is also possible to carry to functions of lymphatic system:

• Delay of toxins and bacteria;
• Return from fabrics to blood of electrolytes and proteins;
• Conclusion of foreign bodys and erythrocytes;
• Production of lymphocytes and antibodies;
• Transfer of the products which are soaked up with food;
• Conclusion of products through urine.

Bodies of lymphatic system:

• Marrow. In it all blood cells are created. The stem cells created in myeloid tissue of marrow get to bodies of immune system.
• Spleen in which there is big accumulation of lymph nodes. In it dead blood cells break up. It sharply reacts to foreign bodys and makes antibodies.
• Thymus. It accepts stem cells, turning them into T lymphocytes (the cell destroying malignant cells and foreign bodys).

What increase in lymph nodes testifies to?

The lymphadenopathy, or increase in lymph nodes, is quite widespread phenomenon. For the healthy person norm is small increase in submaxillary lymph nodes (no more than on 1 cm), and also increase in inguinal lymph nodes (no more than on 2 cm).

If increase exceeds admissible norms, the biopsy and an additional research can be required. The increased lymph nodes of lymphatic system can testify to the following diseases:

• On each side necks – a sarcoidosis, a mononucleosis, tuberculosis and vaccination from it, and also a lymphoma and upper respiratory tract infections;
• In front of and behind auricles – a rubella;
• Over a clavicle – tuberculosis, toxoplasmosis, a carcinoma of the stomach (over the left clavicle);
• Under a mandible – problems with gingivas or an adenoid disease;
• Under mice – infections of hands, a breast cancer, a sarcoidosis;
• On bends of elbows – a sarcoidosis;
• In a groin – an inflammation of urinogenital system or existence of a specific infection (herpes, syphilis), infections of legs.

Increase and inflammation of all groups of lymph nodes is an early symptom of HIV infection.

At a lymphoma nodes become mobile and painless, and at metastasises – soldered and dense.

Diseases of lymphatic system

Any disease does not pass completely for all systems of an organism. Lymphatic system reacts to a disease first of all increase in lymph nodes.

Basic diseases of lymphatic system are:

• Adenoides and adenoid disease when almonds cease to perform protective function, becoming an infection source. As a rule, at long infectious process they are deleted.
• Acute lymphadenitis – the inflammation of a lymph node caused by bacteria. The disease is followed by reddening, morbidity, sometimes suppuration. The disease seldom arises one, more often it results from an inflammation of area on which the lymph proceeds.
• Chronic lymphadenitis. As a rule, this disease is the satellite of other infectious diseases (syphilis, tuberculosis).
• Tumors of absorbent vessels. Can be both malignant (lymphangiosarcoma), and high-quality (lymphangioma).

Cleaning of lymphatic system

For full functioning of a limfosistema it is necessary to move, at least, much. If the person leads a slow-moving life, the respiratory gymnastics, charging and long walks can well help. It is important to know that the movement clears an organism and liquidates stagnation of a lymph.

Cleaning of lymphatic system is carried out through saliva as sialadens enter the general limfosistema. Sialadens extend all died-off cells and slags from an organism and through digestive tract remove them outside.

The easiest way of daily cleaning of a limfosistema is ginger. For this purpose after food it is necessary to rassosat, chew and swallow a ginger piece. Such way is much more useful to a limfosistema, than a glass of water. Ginger irritates mucous and causes the increased salivation.

The second way of cleaning of lymphatic system is juice. It is necessary to drink the juice consisting of four parts of apple and carrot juice and one part of beet for several weeks. It will be useful to add a root of ginger or ginger infusion to juice.