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Nothing happens to the white blood cells in an anemic patient. It is the red blood cell count that goes down.

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What is the Blood count for anemic?

If you are anemic, your hematocrit count is below 14mg/dl and hemoglobin less than 40 mg/dl. There is fatigability, low blood pressure and dizziness.


How do you spell anemic?

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Low white blood count?

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What causes a low white blood count and a low lymphocyte absolute count?

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What kind a count would you do to check if a patient has an infection?

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Why is patients white blood count high in blood but normal in marrow?

It is due to the fact that patient is suffering from infectious disease generally the condition of high WBC in blood and normal in bone marrow happens in primary infection of any pathogenic microorganism


If a patient has a disease and blood was drawn what would show?

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