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What?causes a high white blood cell count?
6 doctors weighed in across 4 answers
Infection: Invasion by foreign organism or disorder in the marrow production.
Answered 8/7/2017
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High WBC: You could have inflammation rather than infection. A sed rate and CRP are helpful tests to rule this out. You may need to see a rheumatologist.
Answered 5/26/2019
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Stresses: Can be from infection, steroids, some other drugs, or more rarely blood cancer. Need more information and situation/history to narrow.
Answered 8/22/2020
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See details: High white counts are be secondary to infection, certain drugs, diseases of the bone marrow, diseases of the immune system and even cigarette smoking.
Answered 11/19/2018
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