Debunking Lyme Disease Testing Myths The Truth About the ELISA Test #shorts

Doctor Diane Mueller, founder of my Lyme Doc, your Lyme disease experts. And we want to make sure to dispel myths that are going on as far as Lyme disease testing. So classically what people are doing for testing is a first line of testing. It's called the ELISA test. And the ELISA test is typically when people are going in for a Lyme disease test, that's the first test that typically gets run. It's kind of thought of as the standard of care problems that the problem really is that some research is showing there's up to a 66% chance of a false negative for this test. So if you fall in this very, very high false negative category, further testing is not done. Lyme disease is ruled out and the symptoms continue on. The other thing to really bring to light is even if you do make it past that first round of testing, the next round of testing called the western blot, the standard western blots on the market are really only looking for one species of Lyme disease.