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What does a low igm mean?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

IGM: IGM = Immunoglobulin M. Your body makes IgM antibodies when you first get infected with some sort of germ. It helps to protect you but then the levels will drop off.

Answered 6/17/2020

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