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What Causes Inflammation In Blood?

I have blood tests that show inflamation this is a consistant thing that has been going on for years but no one has diagnosed what it is or what is causing it , several years ago they thought it was arthritis RA but after being treated for that for several years they said I never had it .
posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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Hi, there are many causes of inflammation. Simple bacterial infection can cause that.any focu of infection in body or generalized inflammation like autoimmune disease could be there . rheumatoid arthritis lupus or vasculitis or lot mire cause could be there. So investigate properly. Go fir esr, crp ana profile etc to reach the diagnosis. And yhen take treatment accordingly.
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What Causes Inflammation In Blood?

Hi, there are many causes of inflammation. Simple bacterial infection can cause that.any focu of infection in body or generalized inflammation like autoimmune disease could be there . rheumatoid arthritis lupus or vasculitis or lot mire cause could be there. So investigate properly. Go fir esr, crp ana profile etc to reach the diagnosis. And yhen take treatment accordingly.