EBV iga positive (NPC)

paulmichael

Hi I just went to a health screening and my result show that

my EBV iga is 139

>120 positive

Does that means that I have contacted NPC , cause this is what the doc told me

I will be going to a hospital for check up next week

Thanks alot for reading

caregiver99

ebv
EBV is very common, usually it does no harm and it doesn't mean you contracted NPC.

longtermsurvivor

Emphatically NO
What caregiver just said. EBV is very very common. All that this shows is that you've been exposed to the virus. It does not mean that you have NPC. What exactly are you going to get checked, and how? There are no current recommendations to use this test as part of a mass public screening that I'm aware of.

paulmichael

longtermsurvivor said:

Emphatically NO
What caregiver just said. EBV is very very common. All that this shows is that you've been exposed to the virus. It does not mean that you have NPC. What exactly are you going to get checked, and how? There are no current recommendations to use this test as part of a mass public screening that I'm aware of.

Thanks for the replies
Thanks for the replies longtermsurvivor & caregiver

I am a chinese and live in S.E.A

Beside the EBV test they wrote NPC

I was quite in a loss when they just told me I got NPC

I ask the doctor for more info but he just wrote me a letter of recommend to a hospital
for a check up again next week

longtermsurvivor

paulmichael said:

Thanks for the replies
Thanks for the replies longtermsurvivor & caregiver

I am a chinese and live in S.E.A

Beside the EBV test they wrote NPC

I was quite in a loss when they just told me I got NPC

I ask the doctor for more info but he just wrote me a letter of recommend to a hospital
for a check up again next week

Southeast Asia is a different situation
but this is pretty complicated, and doesn't just hinge on a single IgA assay. Here's a link. I'm sorry but its going to take a bit of time to figure out what the reference is saying: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0019100

Pat

paulmichael

longtermsurvivor said:

Southeast Asia is a different situation
but this is pretty complicated, and doesn't just hinge on a single IgA assay. Here's a link. I'm sorry but its going to take a bit of time to figure out what the reference is saying: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0019100

Pat

I will take a look at the
I will take a look at the link to understand more

Thanks