What are the Autovaccines?
An Autovaccine is a vaccine prepared from cultures of organisms from the patient’s own tissues or secretions, which will be eventually used to attack the cause of such disease.
Compared to the massive application vaccines, which are generally prepared from one or more strains of virus, and have the purpose of avoiding the apparition of a specific disease, autovaccines are used to treat a disease or condition the patient already has and is being affected by.
Progress of a patient with Acne using autovaccines
Medical treatment with autovaccines is an effective procedure, that has been used for a long time, and that rarely causes rejection by the patient’s organism. It is known in medical science as self-generated or autologous immunotherapy, because it is based on the principle of the therapeutic being elaborated from the same organism that will be treated from the affection. As an example, it can be documented with the treatment of infectious and contagious ailments resistant to antibiotic therapy, in other words, some infectious diseases become chronical because the patient doesn’t take the specific antibiotics that are prescribed, and when a clinical analysis is made, the antibiogram shows that the pathogen agent is resistant to the antibiotics it was placed in contact with. The explanation of this phenomenon resides in the fact that the pathogen has developed the capacity to create its own anti-antibiotic, and will no longer be susceptible to this drug.
This phenomenon’s explanation lies on the abuse of the antibiotic therapy, the auto medication, the failure to comply with the medication schematics, the evolutionary capacity of bacteria, the loss of the patients immune system capacities, or perhaps, all of the previous examples.
