Resources for children and young people

Want to learn more about your immune system and what causes PID or bored doing your infusion?  Here are some resources we have found that might be helpful to you.

Reading Material

Medikidz explain Primary Immunodeficiency. This comic uses superheros to explain what a PID is and how it is treated.

Resources from the:

The official website of the Nobel Prize

• The immune system
• The immune system in more detail
  

Immune Deficiency Foundation (IDF)

• Our Immune System: A story for children with Primary immunodeficiency diseases

• IDF Presents Battle of the Bands: A comic book for teenagers explaining the immune system
• A Zebra Tale: an illustrated storybook written for children – young and old – living with primary immunodeficiency diseases (PI) and their families to provide hope and encouragement.

Jeffrey Modell Foundation

• Test your skills with a ‘Word JAM‘.

Games

• Immune System Defense Forces

From the Immune Deficiency Foundation

• Whack a Germ
  

• Phagocyte Force
  

• Jigsaw Puzzler
  

Posted 23rd December 2014. Updated February 2015.