How can erythrocyte sedimentation rate be controlled if the esr is raised to 80?

Answer 1

ESR is a non specific test that is usually used to diagnose the presence of some medical conditions. Basically, it can tell if there is something wrong inside the body.. it is a useful marker to diagnose for conditions like

temporal arteritis,

rheumatoid artheritis,

cancer,

inflammatory diseases,

auto immune diseases,

pregnancy,

polycythemia,

trauma,

Anemia etc ...

and many more diseases. ]

There are factors that can affect the ESR rate and these factors include Sex, Age, Race ....

normal range for a

man is 0-15mm/hour

woman it is 0-30mm/hour

Newborn is 0-5mm/hour

These values are obtained after importing 3-5ml of blood into a westerngren tube and readings are take after 1 hour interval and 2 hours interval after that.

If your ESR is over 80 there is a possibility of presence of a serious health condition and you physician my have alarm bells ringing, if not... then consult another other physician .... identification of the underlyin problem which is causing the ESR rate to shoot up so high must be diagnosed and the disease must be identified in order to bring things back to normal.

Erythrocyte sedimentation rate is a non-specific test and is not diagnostic of any particular disease. It has a high sensitivity but low specificity.

If high ESR is encountered without any obvious reasons, patient should be reassured and the test repeated after a reasonable amount of time (a couple of months). There is no need to extensively search for an occult disease without repeating it again.

(Taken from http://www.mediscuss.org/erythrocyte-sedimentation-rate-77.html)

Hope this helped...

Thanks

Sami

2nd year medical student

university of oradea.