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Suggest Treatment For Viral Fever

Posted on Sat, 27 Dec 2014

Question: Sir,I am XXXXXXX 25 year old male,on 1 november2014 I got viral fever and got vdrl Reactive after the treatment with amplicin500 I got vdrl negative on 26 november2014.. Yesterday 1 december I had sex with my wife with protection. Is this chance of reinfection of vdrl.help Me out

Answered by Dr. Dr. Kakkar (3 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Need more details; likely false positive

Detailed Answer:
Hello. Thank you for writing to us at healthcaremagic

I have gone through your query.

It could be a false positive vdrl positivity.
Many infectious diseases have been reported as causes of transient biologic false positive VDRL/RPR e.g viral infections, malaria, leprosy, tuberculosis, infectious mononucleosis etc.
Since your repeat vdrl came out to be negative therefore likely it was a false positive reactivity.

Kindly let me know

-what was vdrl titre, when you tested positive?
-Did you also get any specific test for syphilis?

Regards

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar

Follow up: Dr. Dr. Kakkar (48 minutes later)

I was tested positive on 1 november 2014. And treated with amplicin500 for 14 days sir and I retested vdrl on 26 november2014. It was vdrl negative.can I get reinfection by having sex?
1.can I have sex with my wife here after from now?

She also tested vdrl negative.

Answered by Dr. Dr. Kakkar (15 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Yes you can indulge with sexual activity with wife

Detailed Answer:
Hi.
.
Most likely you had a false positive result with vdrl which subsequently came back as negative because non-specific viral infections can give a transient falsely positive vdrl test result.
Yes, you can indulge in sexual activity with your wife.

Regards

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar