Title: What happens if you have too many white blood cells? - Quora
Headings: What happens if you have too many white blood cells?
What happens if you have too many white blood cells?
Kyra Dolores
Alex Porter
Kimber Stout

Content: A normal white blood cell (leukocyte) count is 5,000 to 10,000 WBCs per microliter of blood. A cell count above 10,000 (“too many white cells”) is called leukocytosis. It can have a wide range of causes. One of the least alarming is dehydration—if you have lost excessive amounts of water from the body and not replaced it, the blood is “thicker,” the white cells are less diluted, and even though you may have a normal number of white cells in the body, they will appear concentrated (“too many”) in a blood sample. Leukocyte numbers rise in response to various diseases; this is one of the body’s wa
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A normal white blood cell (leukocyte) count is 5,000 to 10,000 WBCs per microliter of blood. A cell count above 10,000 (“too many white cells”) is called leukocytosis. It can have a wide range of causes. One of the least alarming is dehydration—if you have lost excessive amounts of water from the body and not replaced it, the blood is “thicker,” the white cells are less diluted, and even though you may have a normal number of white cells in the body, they will appear concentrated (“too many”) in a blood sample. Leukocyte numbers rise in response to various diseases;