Squeaky the Cat
This fun-filled coloring book explains how your amazing immune system works, and how it uses microscopic bombs, traffic signs, and deadly spices to send germs to their graves. It even offers immune boosting tips for both people and pets.
There's more to this book that just mere facts. It offers insight to some dehibilitating diseases, such as cancer, autism, blindness, and autoimmune diseases. However, it does this without using big words and complicated details.
Whether you’re a doctor, teacher, parent, student, or a smart child, you will have fun coloring this book -- especially when you color this book with friends and loved ones. Enjoy!
Warning: This book has secrets that germs don’t want you to know.
Squeaky the Cat was a real cat who developed a chronic infection. Even though Squeaky's owner was unemployed, the owner took Squeaky to the veternarian. None of the prescription creams worked, and Squeaky refused to swallow prescription antibiotics even when they were wrapped up with Squeaky's favorite food. Broke, the owner tried one last remedy: an immune-boosting supplement that cured Squeaky within a few days.
In an effort to understand why the supplement worked, the owner used his biochemistry background to study papers and books on immunology. After all, he had time; no one was hiring him at the time. What he learned next was jaw-dropping, and is now briefly summerized in the coloring book How We Fight Germs.
Squeaky is a heroine because her refusal to swallow antibodies led to a world of discovery, and has resulted in cures in both animals and people.
Page 6. "Osteoplast (Os-tee-oh-plast) – keeps joints smooth by eating tiny bumps and spikes that make joints rough."
Page 8. "Eosinophils and basophils are white blood cells that dissolve anything that is too big for the macrophages to eat, such as splinters and worms."
Page 9. "Be glad you’re not a neutrophil; you would die after your first meal!"
Page 10. "Antibodies are spices that flavor germs."
Page 13. "Where do the antibodies come from? They are made in tiny “kitchens” called lymph (limf) nodes. The nodes look like little jelly beans."
Page 14. "What does the spleen do with all the waste it collects? It sends the waste to the toilet… with your help, of course."
Page 16. "Chefs that make good antibodies are allowed to live and make copies of themselves. The rest of the chefs pop and disappear."
Page 19. "Wait a minute. Cars don’t have auto immunity, do they?"
Page 20. "The Helper T Cells are important “bosses” that tell the B cells what kind of antibody to make."
Page 21. "When you were a baby, all T cells went to a school called the thymus (thy-mus) to learn the difference between a germ and a good cell."
Page 24. "Staph (staf) germs – germs that look like grapes."
Page 25. "Natural Killer cells (also called NK cells) are white blood cells that poison sick cells, such as cancer cells (really bad cells that multiply when they shouldn’t)."
Page 26. "Your liver is a large brown organ that makes tiny 'bomb parts' that can kill common germs. These bomb parts are called complements (com-pleh-ments)."
Page 32. "Your blood vessels have tiny “traffic signs” that point to the germs."
Page 33. "When the pancreas isn’t working right, people get a lot of tummy aches because some of the food rots in the tummy. Germs that rot the food can enter the bloodstream and cause all kinds of grief."
Page 34. "Once upon a time, there was a very thin girl. Everyone told her to eat more, but she really couldn’t; food would make her sick."
Page 35. "Once upon a time there was a boy who couldn’t read, talk, nor think. Everyone thought that something was wrong with his brain and that he could not be cured. Then one day a smart doctor found out why the boy was this way."
Page 37. "Once upon a time, there was a woman who was always tired. Then, one morning, she couldn’t see when she woke up; she was blind! ...Now the woman can see and she feels much better."
Page 42. "Vaccines may be bad if many of your red blood cells look like balls or if you are allergic to eggs."
