Title: High White Blood Cell Count - Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment | HealthMD
Headings: High White Blood Cell Count
High White Blood Cell Count
Content: All these elements should be in proper proportion to keep your body healthy. However the number of white blood cell may go down drastically or increase significantly. Any deviation from the normal range of WBC or RBC can cause problem. Leukocytosis is the medical term given for high white blood cell count. For a healthy adult, count of 4500 – 11,000 leukocytes in 1 microliter of blood is considered to be normal. Anything above this range is indicative of high WBC count. However blood cell count varies with age of the person and size. Causes : There are many factors that can increase the number of white blood cell significantly. It is natural for any person to have increased count of WBC when he/she is having any infectious disease.