Second time you've asked about this disease. Highly unlikely route of transmission, but see your doctor for testing if you're concerned. If you haven't smoked them, throw them away as smoking them is likely to fuel your already very high level of health anxiety.
I travel internationally A LOT, and read something that freaked me out about neurocysticercosis. I usually eat where the locals do in the foreign countries, because they usually know the best food. I know the health regulations aren't as strict as they are in the U.S.
I'm paranoid I might have picked something like that and not even know about it. I don't have any kind of worms in my stool or anything like that, but this seems like a silent killer. I read they use M.R.I.
Yes you are right tapeworm infestation can cause neurocysticercosis. It is the leading cause of epilepsy and seizures in the developing world. It is very rare in developed countries.
Apart from seizures it can cause headaches, vomiting, raised intracranial pressure, hydrocephalus and papilledema.
Since it rare in developed countries it is not usually considered as a differential diagnosis.
s egg reaching the brain, neurocysticercosis) .After a year i gradually stopped the course and was fine for 7 months when i had a partial seiure again. this time the mris showed that the cyst had vanished( i had taken sm meds fr that in the beginning) and my eeg was normal too. i started carbamazepine again. after 2 years i had reduced it to 100 mg/ day which was way below the effective dose and continued fine for 1.5 years. but then again got partial seizures one day.
Cysts of brain can be congenital like arachnoid cyst, pineal cyst, epidermoid and dermoid cyst. Few cysts like colloid cyst may appear after trauma or CSF block.. Some cysts like neurocysticercosis may occur after parasitic infection. Please arrange an appointment with a neurologist who will evaluate the further possibilities here and can provide you an appropriate treatment. Hope this helps.
You could also have Neurocysticercosis, which is tapeworms in your head. You might want to get tested for Ova and Parasites if the headaches continue. Good luck.
Some cysts like neurocysticercosis may occur after parasitic infection. Please arrange an appointment with a neurologist who will evaluate the further possibilities here and can provide you an appropriate treatment. Hope this helps.
my doctor is said to me to give pcr-rt (quantitative) test? what is pcr? I am very worried.
There is a lot of new tests but elisa is just the type of test, there are 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation of elisas, and there continue to be a lot of research for new tests, the newest teste tend to be rapid test accurate as elsia tests, there has been also improvement also in the NAAT tests, and some labs are trying to come up with a new 5th generation rapid test (PCR+Antibody+p24) but is not ready yet.
My husband had positive elisa test with 3.45 value in august 2016 for hepatitis c. Then he got treatment aND it showed 0.85 value in January 2017. He got checked his hepatitis C by elisa test again two days back. It showed a value of 85.0. He's active n doing job. No cough or any other symptoms. He did it as just a routine checkup. Please guide if elisa test can be 85.0 ?? What should we do next? Much worried! !
Dear Doc (and forum readers),
About a week or so ago I needed to get a medical check for work. When I got my results back, I was shocked to be told that the Elisa test came back as HIV reactive at 1.52. They tested it twice. I really have no idea what that number stands for, though.
I don't have sex. No girlfriend. And I don't sleep with street workers. As far as I can remember, I have not come into contact with blood (except when killing mosquitoes).
hello, i had protected sex with an hiv positive girl (i just discovered), i had sex with her twice, but she gave me several oral sex, i saw some blood on my penis in one of them, from her mouth i think.. i have no symptoms untill now, i did Elisa test 52 days after 1st time and 20 days after last time and today it´s been 2 months since 1st time (the day i saw the blood) and 1 month after our last time.
Hi i Just wanted to know how accurate is ELISA third generation tests is,
my last sex was at 04/11/2010 i did the first test on 22/1/2011 the result wasELISA : HIV1&HIV2 NEGATIVE (0.15) i started to get worried of the number so i did a second test on 15/2/2011 just to make sure that i completed 3 monthes and the rsult came ELISA : HIV1&HIV2 NEGATIVE (0.33) i freeked out why that number is keeping rising !!
and work in lap said me thit is elisa method . and take another test after 6 months result test after 2 days in hospital ?// can elisa method take result in 30 min only ????
3. any diffrent about first elisa gen and third gen?? the same window piriod after 6 months?
4. can antibdies late in 12 months ??
5. can all elisa test to detect hiv1 and hiv2 and all group or strains in hiv1
im so sorry mt enghilsh poor ...
Thank you very much for your help.But,I have a test Colloidal Gold 3rd generation from hospital only ,I didn't have an ELISA test. Is there any difference?
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