if RBC, Hbg, and Hct is low, what can that mean?

Answer 1

What are low blood counts?

Many of the chemotherapy drugs temporarily stop cells from dividing, especially the cells that divide quickly. Blood cells; red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets are made by the bone marrow. These blood cells divide quickly. Chemotherapy may lead to low blood counts, causing the possibility of a variety of symptoms. The symptoms depend on the type of low blood cell count.

LOW RED BLOOD CELL COUNT (Anemia, low hemoglobin, low hematocrit)

Red blood cells carry oxygen and nutrients throughout the body. A complete blood count (CBC) is a blood test used to check your blood count. The RBC, hemoglobin, and hematocrit are tests to see if you have low red blood count.

Normal Adult Values Male Female
RBC 4.5 - 6.0 M/ul 4.2 - 5.4 M/ul
Hemoglobin (HgB) 14 - 18 g/dL 12 - 16 g/dL
Hematocrit (Hct) 40 - 52% 37 - 47%

Note: Normal values will vary from laboratory to laboratory.

When you have low red blood cell count you may feel:

Fatigued
Weak
Short of breath
Increase in your heart rate
Dizzy or lightheaded when you change positions quickly
If you suffer from low red blood cell count, you may experience:

Headaches
Chest Pain
Pale skin
Things you can do to help manage your low red blood count:

Rest between activities.
Plan ahead and save your energy for the most important activities.
Avoid or stop activities that make you short of breath or make your heart beat faster.
Ask others for help.
Eat a diet with adequate protein and vitamins.
Drink plenty of non-caffeinated and non-alcoholic fluids.
When to call your doctor or health care provider about low blood counts:

Severe weakness.
You feel dizzy or lightheaded.
Your heart is beating faster.
You feel short of breath or are having difficulty breathing.
Call immediately if you are having chest pain.
Your doctor or health care provider may prescribe or suggest to treat your low red blood count:

Epoetin alfa (PROCRIT®).
Darbepoetin (Aranesp®).
Iron supplement.
Multivitamin.
A diet high in protein.
A red blood cell transfusion

Answer 2

Low Rbc Hgb Hct

Answer 3

I would guess you have vitamin B12 deficient or folic acid deficient anemia. WBC White Blood Cell May be increased with infections, inflammation, cancer, leukemia; decreased with some medications (such as methotrexate), some autoimmune conditions, some severe infections, bone marrow failure, and congenital marrow aplasia (marrow doesn't develop normally) RBC Red Blood Cell Decreased with anemia; increased when too many made and with fluid loss due to diarrhea, dehydration, burns Hgb Hemoglobin Mirrors RBC results Hct Hematocrit Mirrors RBC results MCV Mean Corpuscular Volume Increased with B12 and Folate deficiency; decreased with iron deficiency and thalassemia MCH Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin Mirrors MCV results

Answer 4

according to you it is low and these are numerical reports from the laboratory. Lab results are correlated with clinical presentation like feeling of fatigue and paleness. Sometimes your lab results does not conform on how you feel.

Factors to consider:
1. age
2. previous blunt trauma in the abdomen
3. presence of ulcer in stomach
4. genetic - sickle cell, thallasemia
5. kidney problems since erythropoetin is a protein use for forming Red blood cells.
6. malnutrition. undernutrition
7.viral infection but there should be low platelet count

see a doctor and if you are concern on what you might have , the doctor would ask and examine you because there is wide range of health conditions that could present with low counts such as yours. He would do also blood indices and peripheral blood smear.If these show abnormality further work-up is deem necessary. He could also give you Vitamins depending if you have iron, pyridoxine and/or B12 deficiency.

Answer 5

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if RBC, Hbg, and Hct is low, what can that mean?

Answer 6

It means your anemic for whatever reason. Sometimes iron supplements will correct the problem or further testing needs to be done to determine if your bleeding somewhere internally. Either way, the condition should be followed by a physician

Answer 7

it could mean that somone viral is going on that you have a viral infection of some sort which sucks becuase viral you can only treat you synptoms and what ever is going on has to take its course and thats the part that sucks becuase it could take a while or be quick but i wouldnt worry about it unless it was really low

Answer 8

Anemia is what I think.