Help understanding bloodwork

[Christianmom]

Does anyone have any comments on my PANDAS/lyme DS16's bloodwork ordered by LLMD:

 

Vitamin D 25 hydroxy: 25.8 ng/ml (32.0 - 100 is normal, so this number is low)

Lead (blood test) -- 2 ug/DL (0-19 is normal, but this number would be considered low if he were younger)

Arsenic (blood test) -- 5 ug/L (2-23 is normal)

Mercury (blood test) -- none detected

CBC with differential -- all values in normal range

ESR 3 mm/hr (0-15 is normal. Since I think this measures inflammation, this low number surprised me.)

Magnesium: 1.9 mg/dl (1.6-2.3 is normal)

ASO Titer: 142 (normal)

[SSS]

Does anyone have any comments on my PANDAS/lyme DS16's bloodwork ordered by LLMD:

 

Vitamin D 25 hydroxy: 25.8 ng/ml (32.0 - 100 is normal, so this number is low)

Lead (blood test) -- 2 ug/DL (0-19 is normal, but this number would be considered low if he were younger)

Arsenic (blood test) -- 5 ug/L (2-23 is normal)

Mercury (blood test) -- none detected

CBC with differential -- all values in normal range

ESR 3 mm/hr (0-15 is normal. Since I think this measures inflammation, this low number surprised me.)

Magnesium: 1.9 mg/dl (1.6-2.3 is normal)

ASO Titer: 142 (normal)

 

 

 

Hi- I just wanted to mention that blood testing for heavy metals is considered fairly useless- because it only tells you what is circulating in the blood 'now', like if you have a recent, ongoing exposure.

Lead leaches itself into the bones, and mercury will embed itself in tissues/organs/brain.

(sorry)

Some will do a test for heavy metals called a challenge test- you administer a chelator (like dmsa, or dmps) that chelator will pull out metals, you collect urine, send it to lab, to see what and how much is being pulled.

We've done a urine test called the porphyrin test through a French lab, labbio.net, and I believe labcorp. now has this test, too. Less evasive.

This is probably way more than you wanted, lol.

Yea on your CBC normal, and vit. D is easy to supplement (drops)

Edited August 3, 2011 by S & S

[ShaesMom]

My dd's CBC has been tested more times than I care to even think about in the last nine years and it has never been abnormal. Waste of blood in my opinion.