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Herpes related to Bell's Palsy

by Paulypee, Apr 29, 2007 12:00AM

Tags: bell's, palsy, Neurology, Bell's Palsy, General Neurology, cold, neurological, reading, simplex, sores, virus, Work, cold sores, herpes simplex

I just have a question that needs to be answered. I have a friend and she had been diagnosed with Bell's Palsy. Being that this is a neurological problem, would this cause a false reading in a herpes specific IgG test????

Please I need to know...

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by Quixotic1, May 11, 2007 12:00AM

No, it would not. The Bell's Palsy, if anything, could have been caused by the Herpes simplex I virus. Or the two could be coincidental. Approximately 90% to 95% of all adults carry the HSV I (cold sore) virus, even if they never remember having cold sores. My post-doctoral work was in Immunology and we were studying this very topic.

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