Re: Re: PCR Test Facts... *** PH ***

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PH ~

OK, I think I am beginning to understand it more now....

You have had a tough case....Mycoplasma and mycotoxins

are very tough to get rid of......and you have had so much

going on.

You know, when you travel internationally, you can pick up

things that you wouldnt get at home...and that could be an

issue too. Didnt you go to Italy ? Be sure the docs know

where you have travelled to as well......

Bless your sweet heart, I love ya girl ! !

Dede

Re: PCR Test Facts... *** PH ***

Hi Dede,

Yes, that's the same test and I don't understand it either! My doctor said that it's the most accurate test available (Kolb said the same thing) for identifying pathogens (both dead and alive) in the body and giving quantities to determine stage of disease. My doc basically said that if I don't kill what is in my gut it will lead to colon cancer and/or alzheimer's according to my test. I wish I understood the test better.

I wish I could give you more info. The old me would have been able to tear the research apart and explain it but to be honest I am so burnt out on trying to figure this darn illness out w/ the slow brain processing!

I do think it's accurate though because I had a hydrogen breath test which was positive for small bacterial overgrowth. Every stool test I did though was negative. A PCR stool test is different because they can replicate everything in the stool that has died where w/ other stool tests as soon as oxygen hits the stool many of the pathogens die and cannot be replicated. That's why this is considered the ultimate and why it picked up a mycoplasma when other regular stool tests can't.

The PCR test can be done with blood as well.

Love,

PH

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> > Below is from wikipedia which explains the role of the PCR test in the

> > diagnosis of diseases:

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> > PCR permits early diagnosis of malignant

> > <http://health./wiki/Malignant> diseases such as

> > leukemia <http://health./wiki/Leukemia> and lymphomas

> > <http://health./wiki/Lymphoma> , which is currently the

> > highest developed in cancer research and is already being used

> > routinely. PCR assays can be performed directly on genomic DNA samples

> > to detect translocation-specific malignant cells at a sensitivity which

> > is at least 10,000 fold higher than other methods.

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> > PCR also permits identification of non-cultivatable or slow-growing

> > microorganisms such as mycobacteria

> > <http://health./wiki/Mycobacterium> , anaerobic bacteria

> > <http://health./wiki/Anaerobic_organism> , or viruses

> > <http://health./wiki/Virus> from tissue culture

> > <http://health./wiki/Tissue_culture> assays. The basis

> > for PCR diagnostic applications in microbiology is the detection of

> > infectious agents and the discrimination of non-pathogenic from

> > pathogenic strains by virtue of specific genes.

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> > Viral DNA can likewise be detected by PCR. The high sensitivity of PCR

> > permits virus detection soon after infection and even before the onset

> > of disease. Such early detection may give physicians a significant lead

> > in treatment. The amount of virus ("viral load

> > <http://health./wiki/Viral_load> ") in a patient can

> > also be quantified by PCR-based DNA quantitation techniques.

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> > ~PH

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