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What Causes Low White Blood Cell Count?

My brother has a low WBC, seizures, lethargy, worst headache ever, fever, chills, hit head during seizure and now has a red line traveling up his arm where there had earlier been a IV. The doctors where he s at just gave him tylenol and ativan and sent him home. I m worried about bacteremia and or meningitis. ..
posted on Wed, 31 Dec 2014
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Hi low WBC count can be due to multiple reasons
It can be due to bone marrow infiltration, aplastic anemia, vitamin B12 deficiency, splenic sequesteration, some infections like HIV and typhoid and so on.
A better evaluation can be suggested only when I can have a alook at the complete blood report. Seziures and fever and headache are indicative of brain lesion or meningitis as you suspect and need csf studies and radioimaging of head and brain
I hope this helps
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What Causes Low White Blood Cell Count?

Hi low WBC count can be due to multiple reasons It can be due to bone marrow infiltration, aplastic anemia, vitamin B12 deficiency, splenic sequesteration, some infections like HIV and typhoid and so on. A better evaluation can be suggested only when I can have a alook at the complete blood report. Seziures and fever and headache are indicative of brain lesion or meningitis as you suspect and need csf studies and radioimaging of head and brain I hope this helps wish you all the best Thank you for choosing hcm