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Hello Doctor, I Was Labelled By A Medical Clinic To
Hello Doctor,
I was labelled by a medical clinic to be "unfit to work" for the reason that I was positive on a malaria and filarial test as part of the blood exams. I have had no symptoms nor history of exposure as I did not travel to endemic places/ country for filaria and malaria. For the record, I am from the Philippines but I have not traveled to places in my country where malaria is prevalent for the past 24 months. History of travel was in Kuwait from 2007-2013, Kurdistan Iraq from May 2014-Dec 2014. I did work as nurse in the hospital. I did a confirmatory test for malarial smear via thick and thin Geimsa Stain and the result was negative. I did a peripheral blood smear and the result was : RBC with mild hypochromia and anisopoikilocytosis( microcytes + ovalocytes + stomacytes+). WBCis adequate in number for age group in the range of 8-10x10^9/L w/ the predominance of neutrophils. The differential count is as follows: Neutrophils: 74%, Lymphocytes: 20%, Monocytes: 3%, Atypical Mononuclear cells: 3%. Platelet count is adequate in number in the range of 250-300 x 10^9/L.
Still waiting for the filarial test result. Please enlighten me more on the anisopoikilocytosis. Thank you very much.
I was labelled by a medical clinic to be "unfit to work" for the reason that I was positive on a malaria and filarial test as part of the blood exams. I have had no symptoms nor history of exposure as I did not travel to endemic places/ country for filaria and malaria. For the record, I am from the Philippines but I have not traveled to places in my country where malaria is prevalent for the past 24 months. History of travel was in Kuwait from 2007-2013, Kurdistan Iraq from May 2014-Dec 2014. I did work as nurse in the hospital. I did a confirmatory test for malarial smear via thick and thin Geimsa Stain and the result was negative. I did a peripheral blood smear and the result was : RBC with mild hypochromia and anisopoikilocytosis( microcytes + ovalocytes + stomacytes+). WBCis adequate in number for age group in the range of 8-10x10^9/L w/ the predominance of neutrophils. The differential count is as follows: Neutrophils: 74%, Lymphocytes: 20%, Monocytes: 3%, Atypical Mononuclear cells: 3%. Platelet count is adequate in number in the range of 250-300 x 10^9/L.
Still waiting for the filarial test result. Please enlighten me more on the anisopoikilocytosis. Thank you very much.
