Man flu

Men actually experience respiratory viral illnesses differently than women. Men are reported to take longer to recover from flu-like illnesses than women.
Researchers have long known that men and women experience pain differently.
After all each woman has a billion cells different from a man. They have X chromosome in each cell in place of Y.
No wonder, any diseases should also look different in men and women.

Yes, men experience respiratory viral illnesses differently than women. This fact has been medically accepted. It’s the price they for the manliness.

Men are reported to take longer to recover from flu-like illnesses than women (three days vs. 1.5 days). Testosterone may play a role, as men with the highest levels tended to have a lower antibody response.

Pain perception, adverse drug reaction, antibody response of women is totally different from men. So the course and prognosis of any disease is also different between male and female.

  We know every human cells of male differ from female in their chromatid contents. That’s a woman has billion cells different from a man.
No wonder, any diseases should also look different in men and women.

Researchers have long known that men and women experience pain differently.
However, new research indicates that pain also activates different immune cells in the sexes, a discovery that could lead to vary pain treatments for both.

1. Immunology
Influenza vaccination tends to cause more local (skin) and systemic (bodywide) reactions and better antibody response in women. One reason for these differences could be that women generally have stronger immune systems and produce more immunologic products, such as antibodies.
An example, female newborn survive better than a male one.

2. Cardiology
Female heart behaves differently from male in atherosclerotic vaso occlusion.
Men tend to have “classic” crushing chest pain, while women are more likely to have “atypical” symptoms such as nausea or shortness of breath.
Conventional CAG is not adequate to evaluate female coronaries as the occlusion in ladies is more diffuse.
Women are more likely to die following a heart attack than men are.

3. Neurology
Female brain’s response to concussion is different from male brain. Their axons are slender and brain is more stiff. Although the overall incidence of concussion is more in male, the effect of same concussion is more severe in female.
More women than men suffer a stroke each year.
Women are more likely to show signs of depression and anxiety than men are.

5. Pharmacology
Women are 50 to 75 percent more likely than men to experience an adverse drug reaction.
Pharmacokinetics in women is affected by lower body weight, slower gastrointestinal motility, less intestinal enzymatic activity, and slower glomerular filtration rate.
Because of delayed gastric emptying, women may need to extend the interval between eating and taking medications that must be absorbed on an empty stomach.

Diseases like osteoporosis, lupus, and depression behave so differently from men to women. Unfortunately Clinical trials don’t maintain a optimal sex ratio in their recruitment.

It seems soon we will have separate super- specialisation in male and female medicine.