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Blood
Blood is a bodily fluid consisting of plasma, blood cells, and platelets that is circulated by the heart through the vertebrate vascular system, carrying oxygen and nutrients to and waste materials away from all body tissues. In many species, it also carries hormones and disease-fighting substances. In this category, you will find questions about the blood in your body, including blood types, blood diseases, and the function of blood.
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A condition wherein there is few or too many platelets in blood?
Thrombocytosis is a condition where the body has more than 450,000 platelets. Having less than 150,000 platelets is called thrombocytopenia.
Blood cancer represents a large group of different malignancies. This group includes cancers of the bone marrow, blood, and lymphatic system, which includes lymph nodes, lymphatic vessels, tonsils, thymus, spleen, and digestive tract lymphoid tissue. Leukemia and myeloma, which start in the bone marrow, and lymphoma, which starts in the lymphatic system, are the most common types of blood cancer. What causes these cancers is not known.
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As leukemia and myeloma grow within the bone marrow, they can interfere with the bone marrow's ability to produce normal blood cells, including white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets. This can cause frequent infections,anemia, and easy bruising. Lymphomas, which most typically appear as enlargement of the lymph nodes, can also interfere with the body's ability to fight infections. Additionally, myelomas generate a substance that weakens bones, and produce abnormal proteins that can cause symptoms in other parts of the body.
Treatment of blood cancers has undergone substantial improvements, resulting in increased rates of remission and survival. Remission occurs when there is no sign of cancer. Today in the United States, almost 1 million people are alive with, or in remission from, blood cancer (Source: LLS).
People who have blood cancer can have problems with bleeding and serious infections. Seek immediate medical care (call 911)for symptoms such as uncontrolled bleeding, severe sweating, difficulty breathing, pale or blue lips or fingernails, high fever (greater than 101 degrees Fahrenheit), fast heart rate, confusion, loss or change in level of consciousness, or anxiety.
Seek prompt medical care if you have experienced unexpected weight loss, persistent fever, frequent infections, night sweats, tiredness, bone pain, or enlarged lymph nodes.
Can you take omeprazole before a fasting blood test?
No you need to know what your blood sugar level is if your level is already low and you take insulin you can go into insulin shock
What does it mean when when you wee blood and it hurts?
you could have a bladder infection, or UTI (urinary tract infection) or....possibly bladder cancer, get to a doctor soon as possible. trust me, do not wait, I've had one for six months thinking it would get better, it doesnt.
Which side of the human hearts pumps blood to most of the body?
The left side of the heart pumps blood to the body. The right side of the heart receives the oxygen depleted blood from the body and sends it to the lungs. The left side then gets the oxygen enriched blood from the lungs and sends it out into the rest of the body.
What are Weak pathogens injected into your blood called?
Some vaccines are really just a weakened form of the disease. These are called attenuated vaccines.
A condition in which the hematocrit is elevated and the blood volume is normal would be?
Polycythemia often is used to describe an increase in the number of RBC's with no reference to the influctuations in leukocytesand platlets. However, this condition is more accurately termed erythrocytosis.
normal red blood cell count in male 4-6 millions/cumm
in female 3.5-5.5 millions/cumm
What cause back and stomach pain and blood in stool?
There are a wide variety of causes of stomach cramps and bloody stool in a male. Anything from an ulcer, cyst, hemorrhoids, inflammation, cancer, etc. All possibilities need to be investigated by a physician as soon as possible.
How much blood does the heart pump in a minute?
An average heart pumps 2.4 ounces (70 milliliters) per heartbeat. An average heartbeat is 72 beats per minute. Therefore an average heart pumps 1.3 gallons (5 liters) per minute.
What is a normal hematocrit level for a child?
This is a complicated question, as the hematocrit in children changes rapidly as the child ages, with normals dropping to their potential lowest (average of 35) when the child is around 2-3 months old, and then climbing and stabilizing slowly from there. You'll notice how the "normal" parameters begin to narrow as the child grows older.
At birth, the normal range of hematocrit can be anywhere from 42 to 64.
After birth up until 1 month of age, the "normal" range is between 31 and 67.
Between 1 to 2 months, the normal range is between 28 to 55.
Between 2 and 6 months, the normal range is between 28 and 42.
Between 6 months to two years, the normal range is 33 to 40.
Between 2 to 6 years the normal range is between 34 to 40.
Between 6 to 12 years, the normal range is between 35 to 45.
For females between ages 12 and 18, the normal range is between 36 to 46.
For males between ages 12 and 18, the normal range is between 37 and 49.
(These values may be slightly different at various hospitals depending on the equipment used to measure the hematocrit and the established "normal" ranges by the lab resulting the specimens.)
How many pints of blood can someone lose before they become unconcious?
after losing between 25% - 40% of total blood volume. There's a whole host of variables that affect when exactly a person will start to lose consciousness due to blood loss.
What is a basic metabolic panel w egfr?
Metabolic panel may refer to either a basic metabolic panel (BMP or chem-8) or comprehensive metabolic panel (CMP or chem-14). A BMP is a blood test which measures the levels of 8 chemical compounds including sodium, potassium, chloride, bicarbonate, blood urea nitrogen, creatinine, glucose and calcium. A CMP is a blood test which measures all the aformentioned compounds in addition to alkaline phosphatase (ALP), total protein, albumin, AST, ALT and total bilirubin. eGFR refers to the estimated glomerular filtration rate which is usually calculated in the medical setting using the MDRD equation using the patient's age, gender, race and serum creatinine levels.
What is the medical name for study of cells?
The medical term for study of life is biology from bi meaning 'life' and -logy meaning 'study of.'
Is 17.8 high hemoglobin level?
HIGH. I WAS TOLD BY REC CROSS WORKER THAT THE AVERAGE IS 12, AND IN ORDER TO DONATE YOU NEED TO HAVE A 12.5 OR ABOVE.
The Average Hemoglobin in Males is 14-18g. in females it is 12-16G. So either way your level is a little high but nothing to be concerned about.
Why doctors count the number of blood cells to know if the patient has infection?
White blood cells are defence mechanism in our body .when white blood cells are increased than the normal range(Leucocytosis), they show infection.
leucocytes count may be vary depend upon the infection.
In Leukemia white blood cell count may be 50000 to 200000/cumm.
When the leucocytes count decreases than the normal range it is called leucopenia.
In many diseases leucocyte count can be decrease such as typhoid.
In Aplastic anaemia and in pancytopenia white cell decreases.
leucocytes are of two types granulocytes and agranulocytes.
Polymorphs, Eosinophils, Basophils are granulocytes and lymphocytes and monocytes are agranulocytes. Each of these play important role such as:-
increase in polymorph count found in many bacterial infections,inflammations,tissue necrosis,etc.
B and T lymphocytes responsible of humoral and cellular immunity respectively.
monocytosis is seen in chronic infection, monocytic leukaemia etc.
Eosinophilia related to allergic dis.,parasitic infestation etc.
Basophil may have a role in some allergic reaction.
So,A simple test T.L.C. help in many ways to diagnose the pt.
that is the reason doctors do blood tests to count white blood cells.
Anemia
Which type of lymphocytes is formed in the bone marrow?
In many research projects performed, there were findings of 8.6 (+or-) 1.6 % of T lymphocytes found in the total bone marrow lymphocyte pool. There was also 15.4 (+ or -) 1.9 % of B lymphocytes found in the total bone marrow lymphocyte pool. There was a remarkable 74.6 (+ or -) 2.4 % of the total pool that had no special marks to identify it as a specific type of lymphocyte. The findings can not be explained nor were they tampered with.
Why does blood clumping cause death?
A clot can differ in size and where it is clogging the blood vessel. When a clot happens, blood flow slows down, if the clot is not caught or does not exert the body then death can come about. One should be careful if smoking, or eating fatty or greasy foods as these are usualy high in cholestoral. Blood pumps through your heart and into your lungs and your body. If there is a clot anywhere in your body or lungs and there is either a stopage of blood flow due to the heart being overlfowed with blood or the fact that there isn't any coming back into the hear. Blood has to flow through your body at all times and if there is a clot that is stopping it from flowing then that is where death is caused.
What does your blood transport besides oxygen and carbon dioxide?
Food (nutrients), waste products, heat, glucose, water, hormones
