Does immunity-boosting injection work

There is no "magic shot" that can improve immunity in all aspects and long-term with just one shot. The answer to this question depends entirely on what kind of shot you take and what your immune system is.

A while ago, I accompanied my uncle who needed auxiliary treatment after surgery to a community hospital for a thymus facin injection. I met a young girl in her twenties who asked if there was an immunity shot that could prevent colds for a whole winter. Dr. Li, who was attending the clinic, laughed on the spot and said that if you are looking for such a one-shot injection that can last for half a year, I really don’t have one here. The "immunity-boosting injection" that everyone talks about now is not a standard drug name at all. It covers a lot of things. The most common immune modulators such as thymosin and thymosin are clinically used for tumor patients with low immune function, people who take hormones for a long time, and frail elderly people. The routine treatment is two or three times a week, and it takes several months to slowly adjust the immune level. If you only give one injection, the drug will be metabolized before the body's immune cells are mobilized, which is basically a waste. There is also the legendary gamma globulin, which is a strictly prescribed drug and only needs to be used by people with severe infections and congenital immune deficiencies. It is completely unnecessary for healthy people to join in the fun. Not only will it not help you improve your immunity, but it also carries the risk of blood product transfusion. Even if it is used symptomatically, the effect of the drug will only last two or three weeks, and it cannot achieve the effect of "one injection will last a long time."

Of course, some people say that they did not get sick for more than half a year after taking an unknown immune injection. I have also encountered this situation. Last year, my aunt downstairs went on a trip and was recommended to take an injection of "immune peptide". Oh, by the way, many people also classify influenza vaccines, pneumonia vaccines, and shingles vaccines as "immunity-boosting shots." Such targeted vaccines can indeed produce several years or even lifelong protection if given the prescribed number of injections, but their function is to prevent specific diseases, not to buff your overall immunity. You will still get gastroenteritis if you take the flu vaccine, but don't get confused.

After all, if you really want to improve your immunity, there is no single good thing that can be done with a shot. Regular work and rest, a balanced diet, and exercising three or four times a week are more reliable than any sky-high price of immune shots.