LALove
Brilliant_Rock
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2 weeks ago DS (who just turned 3) became ill with a 104.5 fever and vomiting. He asked us to take him to the Dr so we did. We had to go to a local emergency clinic since it was Sunday and his regular ped wasn't in. They gave him Motrin to bring down the fever and ran tests to find the cause of the illness. Strep/flu came back negative. They also took a urine sample, blood sample and chest X-rays. Urine test showed nothing, X-rays showed nothing wrong, but his white blood cell count came back high at 27 (normal is below 10 I think). The Dr was kind of freaking out which didn't help me, of course. She said kids with severe pneumonia do not have this high of a WBC count and we'd maybe have to admit him to the children's hospital because of this and because she couldn't find the source of his illness. She left to talk to another Dr and came back much calmer. She told us to just go home and bring him back tomorrow for a follow up (unless his fever wouldn't stay down). I asked what was up with the WBC count and she said maybe due to DS being ill, which isn't what she said earlier. The next day we took him to his regular ped. She reviewed the test results from the ER and checked over DS. She couldn't find the source of his illness either but decided to put him on antibiotics in case what he had was bacterial and not viral. She said the other Dr probably freaked out because she was worried that DS may develop sepsis but she said he had 0 signs of that. She also said she didn't feel it was necessary to redo his WBC count as it was either most likely from being ill or a lab error.
DS recovered in a couple of days. I called his ped after he was done with his antibiotics and asked if she was sure we shouldn't redo the test. The nurse called back and said the Dr wanted to redo the blood test. When we went in, the Dr changed her tune from not being concerned with the high WBC count to telling me we need to test to make sure he doesn't have leukemia. DH thinks she just wanted to cover her rear end in case DS does have something wrong and she missed it because she didn't retest. But, it is kind of freaking me out that now she's concerned whereas before she wasn't worried at all.
I have to wait 2 more days for the test results and I'm really trying not to freak out. I know it's irrational to get upset before I even know if there's anything wrong but I can't help it.
I'd just like to know if anyone else has gone through this- an extremely high WBC count that ended up being nothing major (as in not cancer but just caused from being ill with a virus etc).
Thank you in advance.
Edit: I should add that DS is a very healthy, happy, active little guy and he's only been sick a handful of times in his life (most of them recently, having just started preschool).
DS recovered in a couple of days. I called his ped after he was done with his antibiotics and asked if she was sure we shouldn't redo the test. The nurse called back and said the Dr wanted to redo the blood test. When we went in, the Dr changed her tune from not being concerned with the high WBC count to telling me we need to test to make sure he doesn't have leukemia. DH thinks she just wanted to cover her rear end in case DS does have something wrong and she missed it because she didn't retest. But, it is kind of freaking me out that now she's concerned whereas before she wasn't worried at all.
I have to wait 2 more days for the test results and I'm really trying not to freak out. I know it's irrational to get upset before I even know if there's anything wrong but I can't help it.
I'd just like to know if anyone else has gone through this- an extremely high WBC count that ended up being nothing major (as in not cancer but just caused from being ill with a virus etc).
Thank you in advance.
Edit: I should add that DS is a very healthy, happy, active little guy and he's only been sick a handful of times in his life (most of them recently, having just started preschool).