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White blood cells are your defence against foreign microorganisms. If you have a shortage of white blood cells, you can easily be affected by what other people are not. For instance if somebody passed on their germs to you, you could be affected by a cold or flu that they weren't affected by because their white blood cells were fighting it off
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Wraps around harmful bacteria and produce antibodies to combat diseases?
White blood cells are the backbone of the bodies immunity. White blood cells attach to bad cells or bacteria to help fight of disease.
White Blood Cell count of 3.5 Good or Bad?
The normal white blood cell count for an adult will be between 4,000 and 10,000 white blood cells per microlitre.
What is the normal white blood cell count in mm?
I think its about 5,000 blood cells. I knew this guy who had a growth and he had 30,000 white blood cells because his immune system was trying to fight off the growth. It was bad!
What the white blood cells do?
they protect your body against any disease or any bad germs
What do the white blood cells?
they protect your body against any disease or any bad germs
Is it bad to have high white blood cells?
Very, your brain could impload at any moment, you should probably get that checked..
What is the medical term meaning an increase in all types of blood cells?
Leukocytescancer that occurs because you are still growing but something interfered and now your white blood cells are effected and you get cancer. that is what happened to terry fox. i should know. i am a huge fan.Leukemia is the cancer in which too many (bad) white blood cells are produced.As for the cancer of the acutal white blood cells, I'm not sure.LEUKEMIA IS THE WHITE BLOOD CELL CANCER.leukemia
How do white blood cells protect the body?
White blood cells protect the body by fighting off or killing the bacteria, pathogen or microorganism that caused it. They do this by ingesting harmful foreign bodies.
How does blood fight garms?
There are components of blood and one of these components is called white blood cells. These cells are just one of our defensive mechanisms and thay fight off anything bad that enters the body, but the only problem is that the bad and good cells are so similar that sometimes the good cells fight the good cells and this can leasd to things like arthritus.
What triggers low white blood count cells?
White blood cells fight bacterial infections in our bodies. So an increase in white blood cells from their normal level would often indicate a bacterial infection. Very often an antibiotic is prescribed to treat the condition.
How do the good germs in our body help fight the bad germs in our body?
its because of the white blood cells
Is non-hodgkins lymphoma a kind of cancer?
Yes it is it runs in the blood. The white blood cells transform into cancer cells. As you may well know, the white blood cells run in the blood and go to injured parts of the body. Protein helps develop more white blood cells. As you probably already know blood cells transform at lightning speed into cancer cells. Good luck to anybody reading this who has any type of cancer.
