Guest guest Posted May 22, 2010 Report Share Posted May 22, 2010 Sed rate, or erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), is a blood test that can reveal inflammatory activity in your body. A sed rate test isn't a stand-alone diagnostic tool, but the result of a sed rate test may help your doctor diagnose or monitor an inflammatory disease. Red blood cells, or erythrocytes (uh-RITH-ro-sites), are cells that transport oxygen throughout your body. When blood is placed in a glass test tube, as part of a sed rate test, red blood cells gradually settle to the bottom. Inflammation alters certain proteins of red blood cells, causing the cells to clump together. Because these clumps of cells are denser than individual cells, they settle to the bottom relatively quickly. The sed rate test measures the distance red blood cells fall in a test tube in one hour. The distance indirectly measures the level of inflammation — the further the red blood cells have descended, the greater the inflammatory response of your immune system. (skipped some) Results from your sed rate test will be reported in the distance in millimeters (mm) red blood cells have descended in one hour. The normal range is 0-22 mm/hour for men and 0-29 mm/hour for women. The upper threshold for a normal sed rate value may vary somewhat from one medical practice to another. The results of your sed rate test are one piece of information to help your doctor assess your health. Talk to your doctor about what your sed rate results mean in light of the symptoms you're experiencing and the results of other diagnostic tests. Accuracy of test results A number of conditions can affect the properties of blood, thereby affecting how quickly red blood cells sink in a sample of blood. Therefore, information about inflammatory disease — what your doctor intends to learn from the sed rate test — may be obscured by the influence of other conditions. These complicating factors include: * Pregnancy * Diabetes * Heart disease * Anemia Your doctor will take into account possible complicating factors when interpreting the results of your sed rate test. (source: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/sed-rate/MY00343 ) Mine is high, if I recall it has been around 170. -- No sig line is too small. Facebook is evil. Rent this space. [ ]<--write your complaint in the complaint box.-<< On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 09:49 -0400, webriter wrote: > > > It seems that 107 for a sed rate is pretty high already. Perhaps your > problem is not the citrus but something else and the citrus just > increases it. I'm not putting you down, I'm a natural born detective. > My chin stroking is in high right now, Have you done an elimination > diet? Have you checked that some things you've already eliminated are > not actually bad for you but are really good for you? For instance I > found that potatoes are beneficial for me due to their high fiber, but > I'd eliminated them because I'm diabetic. > > > > > ~Katy > Sheep to the right; His Lamb > Zeal for your house consumes me-Ps 69:9 > http://orchardhouseheirlooms.com/product_info.php/cPath/157_163/products_id/199 survival seeds > Christian-homesteaders/?yguid=227010598 biblical survival > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 22, 2010 Report Share Posted May 22, 2010  AHA! Thanks . Now I know what that 3 is on my printout the naturopath gave me! We were talking about other numbers and I forgot to ask what that one was about. Shari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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