Title: What can be done about elevated white blood cell count? - HT Health
Headings: What can be done about elevated white blood cell count?
What can be done about elevated white blood cell count?
Dr. Keith Roach

Content: What causes it, and is there anything I can do? Are there any meds that might keep the white blood cell count from climbing? -- R.L.H.
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ANSWER: " Leukocytosis" is the Greek word we use to describe elevated white blood cell counts. In my hospital's laboratory, the normal range is from 3,500 to 11,000, so yours wouldn't be considered elevated. " Normal" in this context means that 95 percent of the healthy population is within that range, which implies that about 2.5 percent of healthy people will have a white blood cell count over 11,000. Many conditions cause the WBC count to increase temporarily, especially infection. However, if the condition is persistent, then the first step in understanding why is to determine which type of white blood cells has increased. The most plentiful WBCs normally are the lymphocytes and the granulocytes (the others, monocytes, basophils and eosinophils, are very rarely the cause for a leukocytosis). Infection typically causes an increase in granulocytes.