Topic: Spinal Taps, unnecessary for other things, too
Keebler
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- We all know that lumbar puncture (spinal tap) to check CSF (cerebral spinal fluid) is a test that is not a good test for lyme. But it seems that there are other cases where they just jump right to that as well.
Of course, there are times when the CSF can offer up answers.
Yet what gets me here is that they did not need to put those poor kids through the spinal taps (and the expense) when they should have just done the nasal swabs FIRST, preliminarily, at least.
Hopefully, from here on that is where they will start.
. . . Tests of the Colorado children's cerebrospinal fluid came back negative for enteroviruses and West Nile virus. But a test of their nasal passages found enterovirus in six out of eight patients who were tested.
Of those six, four tested positive for enterovirus D68, which has been sending children across North America to the hospital with severe respiratory illnesses. The other two test results are pending. . . .
- [full article at link above] -
[ 09-30-2014, 10:09 PM: Message edited by: Keebler ]
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