Low White Blood Cell Count for 11 Year Old

[Anonymous]

I’m sorry, OP. Thinking of you and hoping for a positive outcome ❤️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes my son had strep so he took antiobiotics and then he got the flu and a cold and... it just kept going on for like 3 weeks. But oddly he had no symptoms except being tired.

We had to go for blood work weekly for 3 weeks and it all just cleared up.

IN hindsight... i'm going off bad memory they never check for mono and i think it was mono because years later they checked or mono and they said, oh looks like he had it at some point.

That is how I found out I had mono. I was taking a medication that required regular bloodwork and they found I'd had mono at some point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry, OP. Thinking of you and hoping for a positive outcome ❤️

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes my son had strep so he took antiobiotics and then he got the flu and a cold and... it just kept going on for like 3 weeks. But oddly he had no symptoms except being tired.

We had to go for blood work weekly for 3 weeks and it all just cleared up.

IN hindsight... i'm going off bad memory they never check for mono and i think it was mono because years later they checked or mono and they said, oh looks like he had it at some point.

That is how I found out I had mono. I was taking a medication that required regular bloodwork and they found I'd had mono at some point.

fwiw over 90% of people have had it and test positive for EBV by adulthood.

[Anonymous]

I do this for a living and 3.2 is barely low. It would have to be less than 2.0 to be considered really alarming. You'll probably just retest in a few weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do this for a living and 3.2 is barely low. It would have to be less than 2.0 to be considered really alarming. You'll probably just retest in a few weeks.

+1

and its probably rising due to the recent infection

[Anonymous]

Low white blood cells can be caused by leukemia but my understanding is that there would be other more obvious signs. The more common association between low white blood cells and cancer is because cancer treatment causes low white blood cells, but obviously that is not the cause here because you would k know.

A virus is the most likely cause, one that will resolve.

[Anonymous]

Yes, son had a bad viral infection. He recovered.

[Anonymous]

MD says it’s fine and to recheck in a few weeks, so I’m calming down. Thank you DCUM!

[Anonymous]

Good to hear, OP! Thanks for the update.♥️

[Anonymous]

Yay!