Low lymphocytes and high WBC count? Why?

Question

Lymphocytes 18.4%
WBC 14.7%

Admitted w/ abdominal pain, possible appendicitis but this has been ruled out. Most likely ruptured ovarian cyst.

MegaNerd, if you would read... I asked why.

Answer 1

The immune system is split into two parts; a 'non-specific' aspect and a 'specific' aspect. When pathogens first enter your body, the non-specifc immune system is the first line of defense. A WBC count is basically a count of neutrophils, which are the bulk component of the non-specific immune system. Lymphocytes, on the other hand, take longer to increase in number, and only do so to fight off specific pathogens invading your body.

It sounds to me like you had some kind of inflammatory response due to the ruptured cyst. Inflammatory responses are one strategy the non-specific immune system uses to recruit other WBCs to the area and hold off the infection until the lymphocytes arrive. That might explain why you had a high WBC count, but not a high lymphocyte count, since you actually weren't fighting an infection.

Answer 2

Lymphocytes normally increase in number along with other WBCs during an infection.

Lymphocytes are a type of WBC that differentiate into lymphoid tissue.

Maybe if lymphocytes are low but WBCs are high, the body is just getting over an infection, where the immunity response has stopped growing and is about to start a decrease?

Answer 3

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Low lymphocytes and high WBC count? Why?
Lymphocytes 18.4%
WBC 14.7%

Admitted w/ abdominal pain, possible appendicitis but this has been ruled out. Most likely ruptured ovarian cyst.

Answer 4

Thinking logically, if your WBC count is high and lyphmocytes low then you are not producing a lot of B cells, but instead you must be producing many leukocytes. That mean you would have an infection of one sort or another. It would be easier to work out if we had the break down of the WBC - neutrophils, eosinophils etc. But my money would be on the cyst thing since someone else had the same.

Answer 5

Wow...I had just about the same thing happen this past spring.

I was in the hospital for 5 days....they had me on morphine(which made me sick...UGH)...but the pain was very bad.

Diagnosis was ruptured ovarian cyst...I didn't have to have surgery...thank goodness.



Hope you feel better soon!!!!

Edit: I had high WBC too....I was hemorgaging(sp)...they said it was due to that.....it went down in a few days..but I had to have antibiotics too.

Answer 6

Maybe an infection of the lymph nodes? The WBC, should be high on any infection.

That's my best guess. I sure hope that the person in question, get's better. Please, let me know!

Answer 7

Is there supposed to be a question in there?