Symptom Advice .com » neutrophils http://symptomadvice.com Tue, 29 May 2012 22:17:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 What happens to your blood cell count if you have malaria? http://symptomadvice.com/what-happens-to-your-blood-cell-count-if-you-have-malaria/ http://symptomadvice.com/what-happens-to-your-blood-cell-count-if-you-have-malaria/#comments Sat, 28 May 2011 22:17:17 +0000 Symptom Advice http://symptomadvice.com/what-happens-to-your-blood-cell-count-if-you-have-malaria/

I spent a couple months travelling through central america 12 months ago. for the past 3 weeks I've been having textbook malaria symptoms. I just had a blood test done which shows normal RBC but an elevated WBC count of 14,500 and Neutrophils way up at 12,000. The doctor can't figure out what it is so is putting me on a second round of antibiotics assuming I have a bacterial infection somewhere. Based on this blood report can I rule out Malaria or is it something i should go back to the doctor and mention?

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