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WBC count of 40000
What would cause my WBC to climb to 40000? I have had headaches, nausea, vomiting, sweats and have lost 40 pounds in the last 3 months.
I am a 45 yo male and have been feeling kind of rundown.
My caregiver is having do a "cell tag" where they take blood and seprate the WBC's and RBC's. They reinject them and take an xray to find out where the infection is in my body.
I am very nervous about this.
Any insights to cell tagging and what might be causing a severe spike in my WBC's?
Thanks
I am a 45 yo male and have been feeling kind of rundown.
My caregiver is having do a "cell tag" where they take blood and seprate the WBC's and RBC's. They reinject them and take an xray to find out where the infection is in my body.
I am very nervous about this.
Any insights to cell tagging and what might be causing a severe spike in my WBC's?
Thanks
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Elevated WBC or leukocytosis may be caused by several conditions including bacterial infection, inflammation, leukemia, lymphoma, trauma, use of certain drugs (steroids, antiseizure medications), myeloproliferative disorders of the bone marrow (chronic myelogenous leukemia, polycythemia vera, myelofibrosis, essential thrombocythemia), burns or stress (physical or emotional). Depending on your symptoms further evaluation will be required.
Did you get differential WBC count? Raised neutrophils are found in bacterial infection, raised lymphocytes are found in viral infections such as glandular fever and lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), raised eosinophils are found in parasitic infections, asthma, or allergic reactions and raised monocyte and basophils are found in monocytic leukemia, chronic ulcerative colitis, regional enteritis and leukemia or lymphoma respectively.
White cells are tagged with a radioactive substance and reintroduced into the blood and its movement through the body is noted. This helps identify the source of infection and localization as may happen in leukemias and lymphomas.
Proper diagnosis can be made by cell tagging, differential counts, symptoms, bone marrow biopsy, etc.
Discuss this with your treating doctor. Take care!
Welcome to the MedHelp forum!
Elevated WBC or leukocytosis may be caused by several conditions including bacterial infection, inflammation, leukemia, lymphoma, trauma, use of certain drugs (steroids, antiseizure medications), myeloproliferative disorders of the bone marrow (chronic myelogenous leukemia, polycythemia vera, myelofibrosis, essential thrombocythemia), burns or stress (physical or emotional). Depending on your symptoms further evaluation will be required.
Did you get differential WBC count? Raised neutrophils are found in bacterial infection, raised lymphocytes are found in viral infections such as glandular fever and lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), raised eosinophils are found in parasitic infections, asthma, or allergic reactions and raised monocyte and basophils are found in monocytic leukemia, chronic ulcerative colitis, regional enteritis and leukemia or lymphoma respectively.
White cells are tagged with a radioactive substance and reintroduced into the blood and its movement through the body is noted. This helps identify the source of infection and localization as may happen in leukemias and lymphomas.
Proper diagnosis can be made by cell tagging, differential counts, symptoms, bone marrow biopsy, etc.
Discuss this with your treating doctor. Take care!
Not to scare you since this could be some other kind of infection, but this sounds like leukemia. I would have the doctors do testing to rule that out.
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