Blood findings give clues to chronic infection; however, some providers may dismiss or ignore abnormal findings as unimportant or not interpretable. Some doctors assert a chlamydia IgM represents a current infection and a chlamydia IgA represents past infection; and ignore the chlamydia IgG. Chronic intracellular chlamydia is never completely “in the past”, and the fact an IgM is on the blood test, and is abnormally high, is an important clue to a chronic infection hiding silently within, and evolving into chronic disease over time.
Some doctors assert high monocytes are not important—because everyone they see has high monocytes. High monocytes may represent an immune system attack on chlamydia or parasites, which are endemic in the community. High blood sugar may be caused by an intracellular infection that consumes sugar and prevents the absorption of sugar into the cells from the bloodstream, i.e. leaving high levels of sugar in the blood, and insufficient sugar in the cell.
If a provider is allowed to routinely check patients’ blood for chronic infection, and considers the effects chronic intracellular infection and chronic parasitic infection have on blood, the common blood findings for various chronic diseases will be revealed to the provider. In some cases, new avenues for treatment may be revealed to the benefit of the patient.
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