Middle aged white woman came in today with a chronic repetitive sinus infection. She complained of a frequent cold and diarrhea. After an allergy test was completed in which the patient did not show any reactions via the skin test, Dr. ordered a blood test. The blood test revealed that the patient had an immunoglobulin G deficiency.
Immunoglobulin G is a type of antibody that protects the human body from a variety of bacterial and viral infections. This particular patient had a subclass deficiency being that she had a deficiency in several different kinds of the immunoglobulin G proteins.
The treatment used was simply an immunoglobulin G injection--now a much more common treatment for patients with this kind of ailment.
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