A member asked:

When do people get spinal taps? i'm 18. neurological disorders since august 2012. i'm fallig into pieces.

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R/O infection: A better description of your neurologic symptoms would help. Generally spinal taps are obtained to r/o infections of the nervous system. In your age group other causes may require an LP such as demyelinating disease, auto-immune mediated epilepsies, and nutritional/metabolic disorders. Other test results from ct scan/mri are used in conjunction with the LP results to provide an answer.

Answered 6/10/2014

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