The Lymphatic System
Your tonsils are a part of the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system is just like your blood system with veins, arteries, and capillaries but with the difference that it carries lymph fluid instead of blood.
The lymph fluid is almost like your blood, the difference is that it lacks the red blood cells. The red blood cells are too large to dissipate out through the walls of the capillaries. But the rest of the components in your blood can make its way out whenever they want to.
This is how your cells get nutrients and everything else they need. The cells dump toxins, garbage and everything that they don't need in the lymph fluid. It's like a supplier and a garbage handler at the same time. The lymph fluid has a great number of white blood cells which attacks and neutralises bacteria, viruses and other foreign cells.
When the lymph fluid has delivered its nutrients and have taken all the garbage that your cells have produced it's time to make its way back to the blood again. But the lymph fluid doesn't go straight to the blood because this would be disastrous with all these toxins, chemicals, bacteria, and dead cells, etc. Your blood would get filled with this and you would be very sick!
Instead, the lymph fluid is carried back through a special system called the lymph system. As I said before, this is just like your circulatory system (blood system). Lymph nodes are located at special locations in this system. The lymph nodes function just like filters. They filter garbage out of the lymph fluid so it becomes clean again. Bacteria and viruses are killed here as well along with foreign cells. The lymph nodes are able to do this because they have a great number of white blood cells, in fact, millions of them.
As a side note, when you get sick you might feel pain in certain areas of your body. The painful areas are inflamed lymph nodes which swell and rise in temperature in order to fight off bacteria and viruses more quickly.
Next —> Tonsils and the lymphatic system
The lymph fluid is almost like your blood, the difference is that it lacks the red blood cells. The red blood cells are too large to dissipate out through the walls of the capillaries. But the rest of the components in your blood can make its way out whenever they want to.
This is how your cells get nutrients and everything else they need. The cells dump toxins, garbage and everything that they don't need in the lymph fluid. It's like a supplier and a garbage handler at the same time. The lymph fluid has a great number of white blood cells which attacks and neutralises bacteria, viruses and other foreign cells.
When the lymph fluid has delivered its nutrients and have taken all the garbage that your cells have produced it's time to make its way back to the blood again. But the lymph fluid doesn't go straight to the blood because this would be disastrous with all these toxins, chemicals, bacteria, and dead cells, etc. Your blood would get filled with this and you would be very sick!
Instead, the lymph fluid is carried back through a special system called the lymph system. As I said before, this is just like your circulatory system (blood system). Lymph nodes are located at special locations in this system. The lymph nodes function just like filters. They filter garbage out of the lymph fluid so it becomes clean again. Bacteria and viruses are killed here as well along with foreign cells. The lymph nodes are able to do this because they have a great number of white blood cells, in fact, millions of them.
As a side note, when you get sick you might feel pain in certain areas of your body. The painful areas are inflamed lymph nodes which swell and rise in temperature in order to fight off bacteria and viruses more quickly.
Next —> Tonsils and the lymphatic system