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Blood Donating At Regular Intervals. Diagnosed As VDRL Reactive, No Sexual Experience. Any Ideas?
I am a bachelor and have never had any sexual intercourse in my life and had been donating blood during regular intervals but this morning when I had gone to donate blood I came to know after tests that I was diagonised VDRL reactive. I wonder why because I have had no sexual relation in my life. Moreover I was not exposed to any kind of needle pricking or cuts.
Mon, 13 May 2013
Hello.To diagnose venereal infection,also vdrl reactive , your doctor
must detect skin lesions,genital lesions or enlarged lymph nodes.
Also VDRL reactive occurs in other non- venereal infections and too in other diseases such as some anemias, immune diseases or hepatic chronic diseases.
You must go your doctor to repeat the blood test(to confirm vdrl reactive)
and examine you.
I wish you good health
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must detect skin lesions,genital lesions or enlarged lymph nodes.
Also VDRL reactive occurs in other non- venereal infections and too in other diseases such as some anemias, immune diseases or hepatic chronic diseases.
You must go your doctor to repeat the blood test(to confirm vdrl reactive)
and examine you.
I wish you good health
(In case the answer would have been useful please indicate this)
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Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar's
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Hello,
It may be a false positive test.The VDRL test may come back positive in several cases.It is highly unlikely that you got the same in blood transfusions although there have a been few reported cases years ago.You can go for a test like Western Blot for syphilis,just to be sure. The test is of a more confirmatory nature and will likely put your doubts to rest.
It may be a false positive test.The VDRL test may come back positive in several cases.It is highly unlikely that you got the same in blood transfusions although there have a been few reported cases years ago.You can go for a test like Western Blot for syphilis,just to be sure. The test is of a more confirmatory nature and will likely put your doubts to rest.
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