We have all heard such a sacramental phrase more than once: The patient had complications after… what caused him… either he died, or he got seriously ill, and everything else. More people died from the Spanish flu pandemic after the First World War than died on the fronts!
The then famous Russian movie star Vera Kholodnaya died of the flu, which turned into pneumonia.
Anna Pavlova — too!
Another example, but related to the first one, although this connection will be revealed a little later.
Tetanus is a terrible disease and a painful end. But here’s a well-known oddity to doctors: if the disease has already developed and the patient is injected with tetanus serum, IT DOESN’T HELP! And even if his blood is filled with tetanus-fighting bodies, he’s dying anyway!
Why?
A clever-sounding answer: The hemato-encephalic barrier!
It turns out that there is a kind of cellular barrier that PREVENTS serum antibodies from entering the brain, where tetanus microbes live, breed, and secrete their muscle-paralyzing toxins!
The blood is saturated with them, but tetanus bacteria don’t care! These antibodies can’t get to them!
THE BARRIER!
Combining both topics: Let’s assume that NOT ONLY the BRAIN has such a barrier, but other organs too.
A person gets sick with, say, pneumonia. He is being treated with all sorts of “right” medications and he is recovering. And after a year or two, it suddenly turns out that his kidneys have failed, or diabetes has suddenly developed, seemingly “from scratch.”
What happened?
Streptococci in the lungs were destroyed by the “right” drugs, but they were also in the blood and were looking for a habitual environment for life and reproduction. They found the lungs, rushed there! But the drugs began to be pushed them out of lungs with deadly force. And they began to look for a “REFUGE” from these drugs – poisons for them!
They found that some of them had kidneys as such a refuge. Others have pancreas, in particular, “islets of Langerhans” – colonies of cells in the gland that produce insulin. That is, it turned out that there is not only a hemato-encephalic barrier, but also hemato-pancreatic and hemato-nephric barriers!!!
The idea is that the so–called “complications after…” are a kind of metastases of a past disease, but the pathogenic agents that caused the original disease were either killed or thrown out of THEIR “FAVORITE ORGAN”, and for the most part «found happiness» in (not such a happinass for suffering organism), others, unusual organs for them, but with BETTER PROTECTION! They are a barrier against all kinds of harmful drugs, which are inherent in THESE ORGANS!
And the “maternal” disease, like the “maternal” cancer, tumor, has already been removed (cured!), but its “metastases” are just reviving in completely different organs, even if they initially differ greatly in cellular composition and their physiology from the original, initial, “familiar” for pathogens of a particular disease!
Faciant meliora potentes.
13 XI 2026