Anti Body Testing?!


Question: What is the Antibody testing. Why
Please explain.


Answers: What is the Antibody testing. Why
Please explain.

There have been some answers already given, but you need to know the context of the term "antibody testing".

As a blood banker, I consider antibody testing to be a test to detect irregular antibodies in a person's serum to antigens on red blood cells.

When I test serum for antibodies, I'm screening to see if someone has Anti-D or Anti-Kell, etc.

These antibodies will cause a transfusion reaction if I don't detect them and inadvertently provide blood to the patient that has the D antigen or Kell antigen on them.

Hope this helps provide another perspective on your question.

This is a simple blood test where they test the level of anti bodies in your system to make sure you don't have an auto immune disorder.

I have one, I was diagnosed with LUPUS when I was ten, my immune system is very suppressed and I get sick very easily because my anti bodies can't fight infection and so on.

Anti Body testing is what is done for HIV. To do a HIV test you don't test for HIV in the blood, you need to test for the HIV anti body. When someone is infected with anything, chicken pox, measles, mumps, HIV the body builds anti bodies to fight off the infection. There has been a test developed to find the antibodies for HIV and that is how the test was developed.

Antibody testing is a blood test that detects antibodies to almost all organisms(bacteria or virus). It is also used for connective tissue diseases (example - lupus). A certain antibody is specific for a certain disease.
As an example, you can test for antibodies agains HIV, Herpes, MONO, Varicella, Lupus, etc......there are tons of tests for antibodies!





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