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Which cell will respond whether you have viral infection or bacterial infection?
bacterial..you can't really cure viral infections, only bacterial infections..hence anti-bacterial as antibiotics for a bacterial infection
Is there any connection to excessive white cells and mental confusion?
Your blood doesn't have excessive white blood cells. These are immune cells and fight infections. Elevated levels typically indicate an infection. And infections can very clearly result in mental confusion.
Is 15.8 white blood cell count high?
Yes, it is. The normal range is from about 5.0 to 12.0, and the white blood cell (WBC) count is usually elevated when your body's immune system is fighting a bacterial or viral infection.
What are 2 main types of white blood cells?
Neutrophils and lymphocytes make up most of the body's five types of white blood cells. Lymphocytes are the ones that multiply to fight viral infections.
Why are viral infections associated with sports?
Viral infections affect health in a number of ways, they destroy your WBC (white blood cells) which are responsible to maintain the defence mechanism of your body, and also it can lead to weight loss which is very important factor concerning health care issues, viral infections also lead to high fever and loss of hunger.
Does a high white blood cell count specifically indicate bacterial infection?
A high blood cell count that might indicate a bacterial infection is referring to white blood cells specifically. If a bacterial infection is present in the body, the immune system releases into the blood stream additional white blood cells to respond to the threat. A high count of these additional immune cells will then indicate that there is a bacterial presence to which the body is responding.
Can whooping cough cause high lymphocyte?
lymphocytes are generally elevated in viral infections and leukemias and lymphomas. Most bacterial infections cause a high white blood cell count but the particular population of cells that is relatively elevated is the granulocyte, not the lymphocyte. Whooping cough is a bacterial infection and thus we would expect elevated granulocytes, not lymphocytes. With that being said, whooping cough is a strange type of bacteria and actually DOES cause high lymphocytes. This correlation is so strong that the level of lymphocytes actually correlates to the severity of the disease.
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.
Can low white blood cell count cause lymph nodes to swell?
Low WBC count is often a sign a viral infection. And, yes, viral infections can often cause enlarged lymph nodes.
What causes high red and white blood counts?
I am not sure about the red blood cells, but white blood cell counts can be elevated by infections, cancers and the like, when white blood cells are created and deployed to try and combat the infection or cancer. One example is appendicitis. One true fire way besides poking the patient's side constantly to find out what's up, is to test the blood and if elevated white blood cells are found, then the symptoms will be matched up and so on.
What does a WBC of 13 mean?
Elevated white blood cell counts can be from a variety of causes such as infections or physical stresses. Usually it will just go down on its own and is a normal reaction. If it stays elevated over time it should be investigated.
What disease affects the white blood cells?
There are acute and chronic neoplastic diseases affecting the white blood cells. then you have various Infectious Diseases which affect the white blood cell count. Typically the intracellular infections give rise to low or normal blood cell count. Like viral infections (except infectious mononucleosis, perhaps), reckettsial fevers, chlamydia, typhoid and malarial fever. Almost all the extracellular infections give rise to increased white blood cell count. This happens probably because the intracellular organisms are not available for phagocytosis and extracellular organisms are available for phagocytosis.
