blood tests

[balla]

HI
can anyone tell me what these mean, Immunoglobulin G&A minimally reduced.
Acute phase screen haptoglobin,2.03g/l otherwise within normal limits.
Complement cl inhibitor 0.37g/l otherwise within normal limits.
These are going back a few years but just found them among my med records.
THANX ANY HELP WOULD BE GREAT.


style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/Thanx.gif SUSAN X

[Lily]

Hi Susan,

Its important to see just how out of range tests are when trying to work out their significance and also the doc is best at interpreting things going on your particular presenting problems at the time.

Here's a site that will help you determine what those tests are for,

http://www.labtestsonline.org/

but again each lab will have a range of normal and they vary slightly between labs so when you look at results you need to know what that lab considers normal. Sometimes we turn up some slightly off results and they have little significance and they also come back normal the next time they are retested. When looking at past history it can sometimes be helpful, sometimes not, but your treating doc should be made aware of it it may hold some significance for you personally especially if they are having trouble working out what is going on. Have you ever seen an Immunologist Susan? They might be helpful in your case.

If the C1 inhibitor was low then sometimes that creates a lupus like syndrome, it can be an inherited complement disorder of your immune system. And some families also have deficiencies of certain proteins like the Immunoglobulin G & A, you can look those up online to get a better idea what a deficiency would mean. I did present with a low Immunoglobulin G (there are 5 classes of those) My deficiency was in the IgG3 class, but it was one of the first things my Immuno turned up, which led him to further investigations, which turned up a Vitamin D deficiency, which could have been linked to MS but was corrected over time. So whilst it was part of the puzzle, it really meant little in the long run, it was a glitch that showed up that has not shown up since he treated me for it. Its a complicated business and Immunologists at least good ones are used to sorting through these puzzles because those results in someone else might mean something else entirely.

love
Lily

[balla]

style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/Thanx.gif Hi lily it makes me think as in the past my youngest daughter was given lots of blood tests as each time she had her baby injections she would get an infection in the area,to the point where on her leg when given MMR she developed like a mass of white solid poision come out like a worm coming out of a hole,She was given tests and it showed some sort of white blood cell problem,not sure now but i could find out,She is also allergic to many medications like penicillin and also has become allergic to the cream they put on children before blood tests are done to help with numbing the injection site.She as Raynauds and is epileptic,
And also my eldest daughter as vitamin b12 deficancey needing injection every three months,Also raynauds.
Just wondering if these blood tests are involved in my childrens illness,As my GP seems to think there raynauds is related to my illness,
I should realy get my youngest daughter checked for b12 but she hates needles.It was hard work getting blood for tests they are doing on my family to help in genetics at london for family kidney problems.
She's now 13 so she knows fine well how she hates needles.Not surprising after all she has been through as a baby.She was 10 weeks prem and very ill child developing epilepsey at 3 a nd given lumber puncture.
My family the doctors say is very complicated as my dad also had same problems before passing away with brainstem stroke in 2002.
Well hope i find out soon mainly for my daughters,as if its something that will effect them and i can be the one to help with diagnoises then it saves them going through all the mess,

well bye for now thanx for any help.

(sorry about spellings)
susan style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/foryou.gif

[alobreto]

Hi, Susan! style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif
It sounds like you have your hands full! style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hugbetter.gif I know how difficult it can be to get a young teen to do anything you'd like them to do without having a tug-of-war over even a minor issue like a lab test! They (and we moms and dads) do survive it, though, and come out on the other side in reasonably good shape!

I just wanted to say that when lab work is done, it should not be interpreted in isolation. One lab value happens at the same time as other values and must also be evaluated in relation to other factors such as current symptoms and even diet/exercise patterns. So while it is possible to get a general idea of what one test relates to, it isn't possible to know exactly what they mean in our individual case without consulting our medical provider.

I wish you well!
Angela style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/flowers.gif