Re: Some of the test results back from the lab

Yes, that makes sense, but tell that to a doc..

this is what I found on a medpage:

"My eosinophil count is zero. Does this mean I am ill?"

"Not at all. In healthy people there are so few eosinophils in the blood that it can happen that the person counting the cells under a microscope does not find any. Nowadays we mostly use machines for this work, and the machines normally cannot count eosinophils at all. So the printed blood report seems to say there are none, but this is meaningless.

I do not know whether there is such a thing as a medical condition in which eosinophils are truly absent. I am certainly not aware of anyone being ill as a result.

In fact a low or zero eosinophil count, if it has been done by a human being instead of a machine, is a good sign. It argues against severe forms of diseases which raise the eosinophil count, including the kind of allergy which can raise the count. Far from being a sign of illness, it could be a sign of good health."


http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~aair/eosinophils.htm



My guess is that the antibody/elisa test will show squat because of this. Damn!!!