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What does it generally mean when your Red and White blood cells are high? (Not extremely high but high)

2007-12-11 18:20:05 · 2 answers · asked by mjust41 1 in Health Diseases & Conditions Other - Diseases

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When the counts of your red and white blood cells are high it can mean one of a number of things:

There is too little fluid in your blood
(dehydration)

There are more red blood cells and white blood cells in your blood than normal
(polycythaemia and leukocytosis)

The causes of these conditions (dehydration, polycythaemia and leukocytosis) are MANY

Drinking too little
Urinating too much (diabetes mellitus, diabetes insipidus)
Sweating excessively (e.g. high ambient temperature, physical work, infective illness)

Polycythaemia rubra vera
Erythropoeitin excess ... blood doping

Infective illness
Steroid medication
Stress
Allergy

...

the list goes on and on

2007-12-11 18:23:36 · answer #1 · answered by Orinoco 7 · 2 0

rbc >polycythaemia .wbc >leukocytosis ,regarding rbcs means hypoxia ,wbc usually infection or leukaeamia ,both high could be relative dehydration

2007-12-12 10:04:53 · answer #2 · answered by reifguy 6 · 1 0

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