Talk:Newly injured guide
should add some info on rotavirus vaccine and intussusception?
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There are two tests that many vaccine injured people test positive on:
- IncellDX’s inflammatory marker panel - This test measures the various molecules that the immune system uses to coordinate its actions. These signs of inflammation indicate that the body is trying to fight something (e.g. the microbes that live inside us, our own tissues, etc.) or is inappropriately hyperactive. Its creators have written a scientific paper on their test (https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2021.700782) which explains how the test determines whether or not somebody is a ‘long hauler’ (has long COVID or post vaccination syndrome / vaccine injury).
- This test is available by signing up at covidlonghaulers.com; the test is available in the US and a growing number of countries.
Tests sensitive to vaccine injury
Auto-antibody tests from German labs (CellTrend, ERDE, Berlin Cures) - The word “auto-antibodies” refers to antibodies that engage in ‘friendly fire’ and attack your body’s own cells instead of things that shouldn’t be in your body. Auto-antibodies are not a sign of good health because your immune system should not be trying to attack its host. Because healthy people have autoantibodies too (at low levels), there can be some subjectivity as to whether your autoantibodies are problematic. That depends on their levels and whether you have symptoms in line with those antibodies.
- For the logistics of getting this test, see the page on emerging auto-antibody lab tests.
Most doctors aren’t familiar with these tests and may not know what to do with them.
These tests provide evidence that vaccine injury has a biological basis and not a psychogenic or psychological basis. Other objective tests can also provide evidence- however, testing positive on those tests is less common among the vaccine injured.
It is unclear if the auto-antibody tests detect Long COVID. A study from Yale Mount Sinai found that Long COVID patients had the same levels of auto-antibodies as healthy controls.