Estrogen Levels & the Implications on Recovery from Acute Illness

When suffering from an acute illness, there are a variety of symptoms that may appear. For most patients, the acute illness is attributed to an infection that often results in complications of the urological system or respiratory system.

For women, the complications associated with acute infection can have a significant affect on quality of life. In fact, acute illness has been found to increase the rates of aromatization of the sex hormones which ultimately leads to an increase in estrogen levels. This increase in estrogen levels, during acute infection, can result in the development of peripheral complications.

If you suffer from acute illness, it is important to ask your physician to assess your levels of estrogen. While the effects of these rises in estrogen levels are not clearly known, it is important to mange them during infection and in the days and weeks after infection has been resolved. What we do know today is that unmanaged and increased complications of estrogen levels may play a role in mismanagement of cardiovascular disease, immune system function and an increase in the risks for protein production in the liver and hepatic systems.

To the benefit of women, the elevated levels of estrogen may play a role in decreasing inflammation and may work to reduce the risk for tissue damage associated with the infection. However, because the immune system may be adversely affected, the increase may result in a more difficult approach to successfully treating the infection that resulted in the increase in estrogen in the first place.

While there are many health issues of concern when a woman suffers from acute infection, of the most important involves the amoratization of sex hormones, especially that of estrogen levels. When suffering from infection, your estrogen levels may provide for some therapeutic benefit but, when too high, may lead to complications involving recovery from the infection. Once your infection is resolved, it will also be important to re-test for management of your estrogen levels.