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Can your white blood count be off from having a bad stomach virus? vomiting/ diarrhea? or does that mean you have something else causing your symptoms
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Limited usefulness: Unless one of the absolute counts is extremely far from the reference range or there are abnormal cells, white counts aren't helpful in working up the minor transient illnesses that folks get. You can raise you white count to 20000 (granulocytes mostly) by a 20 minute icy shower.
Answered 2/28/2014
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