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What Are The Risks Of Having Low Monocytes In A Baby?

What is wrong if my baby has low monocytes(0,13 out of ,20-1,30) and neutrophils(10% out of range 17-60 and 0,55 out of range 1,50-7,00) and high lymphocytes(83,2 out of range 20-70) all are thousands/ul. My son is 4 months old and we gave him iron and nothing helped, keeps becoming lower or higher respectively. He had an E Coli infection when he was born, my wife also has low iron.
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Hello and welcome to HCM,
In infants and children less than 7-8 years of age, the neutrophil count is low and lymphocyte count is high.
This is a normal finding and nothing abnormal in it.
A low monocyte count is also a normal finding and it does not signify anything disease.
So, there is nothing to worry about the white blood cell count.
Iron supplements are given for iron deficiency anemia. Low iron in mother can lead to iron deficiency in newly born children.
Thus, get the hemogram and red cell indices to see whether anemia is corrected or not.
If iron deficiency anemia is still present, you need to get iron supplements else you can stop iron supplements.

Thanks and take care
Dr Shailja P Wahal
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What Are The Risks Of Having Low Monocytes In A Baby?

Hello and welcome to HCM, In infants and children less than 7-8 years of age, the neutrophil count is low and lymphocyte count is high. This is a normal finding and nothing abnormal in it. A low monocyte count is also a normal finding and it does not signify anything disease. So, there is nothing to worry about the white blood cell count. Iron supplements are given for iron deficiency anemia. Low iron in mother can lead to iron deficiency in newly born children. Thus, get the hemogram and red cell indices to see whether anemia is corrected or not. If iron deficiency anemia is still present, you need to get iron supplements else you can stop iron supplements. Thanks and take care Dr Shailja P Wahal