![]() If someone has at least 5 out of 10 antibodies for IgG or 2 out of 3 antibodies for IgM, then the Lyme Western Blot is considered positive. The Lyme Western Blot looks at a series of specific antibodies against the Lyme organism for both IgG and IgM. If this test is positive, then a second test called a Lyme Western Blot should be run to confirm the results of the first test. ![]() The first step is to run a Lyme antibody blood test, which measure two types of antibodies against Lyme disease (immunoglobulin G or IgG and immunoglobulin M or IgM). The current recommendation by the CDC for someone who is suspicious of having Lyme disease is to run a two-step process. Here is a brief excerpt from my upcoming book on Lyme disease, “ The Lyme Solution: A 5-part Plan to Fight the Inflammatory Auto-Immune Response and Beat Lyme Disease”. Now that it is 25 years later, we have learned a great deal about Lyme disease and the pitfalls of Lyme testing have been revealed. ![]() When I was working as a microbiologist in the early 1990’s, Lyme testing was still pretty new and we didn’t know much about Lyme disease and all of the nuances of testing that would soon follow. Ingels spoke at a past Restorative Medicine Conference and is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Restorative Medicine Herbal Certification program. ![]()
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