Can chronic inflammation heal on its own?

Inflammation is a very common disease in our lives, covering a wide range of conditions, such as andrological inflammation, gynecological inflammation, etc. According to the actual situation of inflammation, it can be divided into chronic inflammation and acute inflammation. Especially in chronic inflammation, although the symptoms are not very severe, the impact caused by long-term existence is still quite large. So, can chronic inflammation heal itself? Let’s take a look below.

Whether chronic inflammation can heal itself depends on the disease. Some can heal itself, while others require long-term treatment.

Causes of chronic inflammation

Anything that can cause tissue

Any factor of injury can be a cause of inflammation. Although there are many types of inflammatory factors, they can be summarized into the following categories.

1. Physical factors

High fever,

Low temperature, radiation and ultraviolet rays, etc.

2. Chemical factors include exogenous and endogenous chemicals. Exogenous chemical substances include corrosive substances such as strong acids and strong alkalis, as well as turpentine, mustard gas, etc. Endogenous chemical poisons such as decomposition products of necrotic tissue and metabolic products that accumulate in the body under certain pathological conditions, such as urea.

3. Mechanical factors such as cutting, impact, extrusion, etc.

4. Biological factors: bacteria, viruses, rickettsia, mycoplasma, fungi, spirochetes and parasites are the most common causes of inflammation. They directly cause cell and tissue damage by multiplying in the body, producing and releasing toxins, and can also induce immune responses and cause inflammation through their antigenicity.

5. Immune response All types of allergic reactions can cause tissue and cell damage and lead to inflammation: Type I allergic reactions such as allergic rhinitis and urticaria; Type II allergic reactions such as anti-basement membrane glomerulonephritis; Type III allergic reactions such as immune complex glomerulonephritis and Type IV allergic reactions such as tuberculosis, typhoid fever, etc.; in addition, there are certain autoimmune diseases such as lymphocytic thyroiditis, ulcerative colitis, etc.

Whether the damaging factors cause inflammation and the strength of the inflammatory response are not only related to the nature of the damaging factors and the intensity of the damage, but also to the body's sensitivity to the damaging factors. For example, young children and the elderly have low immune function and are prone to pneumonia and have more serious illnesses; children who have been vaccinated are often insensitive to the pathogen. Therefore, the occurrence and development of inflammatory response depends on the combined effects of damaging factors and body reactivity.