Q: PLT 108 WBC 4.12 with diarrhea and belly pains two days later. Any reassurance would be amazing?

Question: Hi has anyone's children had low platelets and a slightly low white blood cell count? The doctor wants to repeat in 2 weeks. Obviously googled and scared the life…

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Can blood loss cause high platelet count? does platelets increase or decrease with bleeding?

Bleeding, blood loss due to injuries, trauma, after surgery, or as a consequence of chronic conditions. The reasons why the bleeding and blood loss causing the platelets to go up…

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What does High Platelets Count Mean if I’ve uterine cancer? Can Uterine Cancer and Fibroids Affect The Platelets Count?

Uterine fibroids or what's medically termed "Uterine myoma or leiomyomas" are kind of abnormal growth of muscles in the uterine lining but it's benign not a cancer and yet has…

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Does High Platelets Count Mean Cancer? Understand Effect of Common Cancers on Platelets Count

Elevated platelets count is common in lab results of patients with advanced stage cancers and if their lab results show the flag "platelets high", it's probably a marker of progression…

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What is The Most Common Cause of High Platelets Count? Does Bacterial Infection Cause Elevated PLT count?

It's medically known that the commonest reason for elevated platelets count (Thrombocytosis) in FBC test results is the bacterial infection somewhere in the body and yes, if the bacteria infect…

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Can Viral Infection Cause High Platelets Count in my blood tests? What viruses affect platelets level?

The commonest reason of elevated platelets count is the infection and inflammation, to be clearer: Viral infections that cause inflammations of the digestive system often cause an increase in the…

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Why High Platelets Count (Thrombocytosis) with Iron Deficiency Anemia IDA (What do High Platelets Low Hemoglobin Low Iron mean?)

Can platelets be high because of low iron anemia? Yes, platelets could be elevated secondary to low iron and low hemoglobin levels (the medical term is iron deficiency anemia, abbreviated…

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What Does High Platelets Count mean After Removal of your Spleen (Understand Thrombocytosis post Splenectomy)?

In order to understand the reasons of high blood platelets count after removing your spleen you must know some scientific basics for well understanding the meaning of elevation. Spleen is…

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High platelet count in sickle cell disease Explained “from real case studies”

What is this post talking about? to answer many questions like:Do blood platelets elevate in patients with sickle cell disease?How many platelets in patient of SCD? or To which level…

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