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What happens to the white blood cell count in an anemic patient?
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∙ 12y ago
Nothing happens to the white blood cells in an anemic patient. It is the red blood cell count that goes down.
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∙ 12y ago
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What is the Blood count for anemic?
If you are anemic, your hematocrit count is below 14mg/dl and hemoglobin less than 40 mg/dl. There is fatigability, low blood pressure and dizziness.
How do you spell anemic?
The US spelling is anemic (having a low red blood cell count). The UK spelling is anaemic.
What is animic?
Do you mean anemic? Anemia is a low red blood cell count.
When should blood be administered?
Blood should be administers when there is hemorrhage or blood loss,if you are anemic or if you have decreased platelet count.
What prediction can you make with rbc's and wbc's?
If rbc stands for red blood count and wbc stands for white blood count, then you may be able to predict if someone is becoming anemic.
Low white blood count?
are you asking what happens when your white blood count gets low, your white blood cells are what fights off illnesses like the flu.
What happens when a person's blood count is dropping?
you lose blood
What does it mean when you are anemic and your red blood cell count is low and white blood cell count is high?
It means for you to take 500m of b-12 once a day, and take folic acid to bring up your blood count. and ferrosoul which is a iron supplement, that gives oxygen to your red blood cells. it costs around $20.00 (depends where you buy it from) I should know, I'm anemic
What causes a low white blood count and a low lymphocyte absolute count?
White Blood Cell count less than 500 places the patient at risk for a fatal infection.
What kind a count would you do to check if a patient has an infection?
white blood cell
Why is patients white blood count high in blood but normal in marrow?
It is due to the fact that patient is suffering from infectious disease generally the condition of high WBC in blood and normal in bone marrow happens in primary infection of any pathogenic microorganism
If a patient has a disease and blood was drawn what would show?
It will generally show a high white blood cell count.
