Talk:Leukopenia

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Does anyone know anything about Leukopenia? My daughter may have been diagnosed with it and I was just looking around for some information

Dana Farber Cancer Institute treats this disorder. What I was told from them was you would need to find out why the white cells are low and if they are cancerous. Here is the website; www.danafarber.org

does anyone know the type or name of the antibiotics which can cause leukopenia if you have been on them for a long time. Is cephaloxin one of the antibiotics to cause low wbc? my son has been on it for a year and has low wbc.

leukopenia itself is more a symptom like headaches, it can have myriad causes.

how old are your kids? where they diagnosed by a pediatrician? some gp´s tend to forget, that infants and toddlers have different differential blood counts. do they "only" have leukopenia or are they lacking the other cellular components of blood?

should you worry about this?

the question is really where it comes from. one of the causes are bone marrow diseases as leucemia. in leucemia however one would expect "abnormal leukocytes". but as stated in the article a lot of infections can cause leukopenia. the list is quite complete, you should add parvovirus b 19 (which a lot of people are infected with, but quite asymptomatically) and certainly some that i forgot as well. the antibiotic your son has been taking does not cause leukopenia from what i know. but why is he taking them? that might also be a cause for the leukopenia.

after all people are different... some have longer noses, others have shorter fingers. maybe it is just a feature that your children have (and maybe you or their father as well).

if the counts are really low, you should check it out further, just to be sure, after all that´s what physicians are for.

i am sorry that i wrote so much without really having given an answer, but leukopenia is a very diverse symptom.Roenne 19:43, 7 December 2006 (UTC)