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Does white blood cell count go up if you have cancer?
White blood cell count goes down. Red stays the same.
What happens to the white blood cell count in an anemic patient?
Nothing happens to the white blood cells in an anemic patient. It is the red blood cell count that goes down.
What cell fight germs and break down dead cells?
white blood cells
What cell fights diseases?
White blood cells fight disease. When a foreign organism invades the body, white blood cells attack it and break it down. Really, how do you not know this sh*t? I learned this is in like the 1st grade.
What does it mean if your white blood cell count is low?
Normal white blood cell count is about 4.3 to 8.10. White blood cells can go down from many conditions and certain medications. The main purpose of WBCs is to fight infection so if they are decreased your body may not be able to fight off infections. Some cause include:1. Viral infections2. Congenital disorders3. Cancer4. Autoimmune disorders such as Rheumatoid arthritis.5. Overwhelming infections that use up white blood cells faster than they can be produced6. Drugs that destroy white blood cellsThe underlying cause for low WBC count needs to be found in order to determine treatment.
What happens if you have high wight blood cell count?
The usual cause of elevated white cell count (leukocytosis) is a bacterial infection. Once the infection is treated the count automatically comes down. Less common causes are autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and leukemia. The outcome depends on the underlying cause.
What does it mean when your white cell count is up and everything else is down?
When the white blood cell count is less than 4,000 per cubic mm, you are said to have low white blood cell count. You have such low white blood cell count in viral infections, chlamydia infections, rickettsial infections, in malaria and typhoid fever. Incidentally they are all the infections inside your cells. White blood cells can not attack them with out killing your body cells.
What blood cell fight diseases?
White blood cells fight disease. When a foreign organism invades the body, white blood cells attack it and break it down. Really, how do you not know this sh*t? I learned this is in like the 1st grade.
What is the difference between red blood and white blood cells?
white blood cells - help fight off diseases and keep us from getting sick and fight viruses when were sick red blood cells - is basically just our pure healthy blood down to its basic unit which is a cell
What is the function blood cell?
The combat of disease through phagocytosis (the engulfing of the bacterial cells through changing of the shape of the membrane) which encloses the bacteria within the white blood cell, where there are lysosomes containing enzymes which break down the bacteria.
High white blood count?
A high white blood cell count usually indicates that an infection is present. White blood cells protect the body against infection by eating viruses.
What is the different between white and red blood cells?
white blood cells - help fight off diseases and keep us from getting sick and fight viruses when were sick red blood cells - is basically just our pure healthy blood down to its basic unit which is a cell
