AboutNeha Dahiya MD Expertise I can help patients understand their lab report results, help them with queries regarding what pretest preparation is required. How often a follow up test needs to be done. What does a particular tissue biopsy report mean in everyday English. I can explain the biopsy or cytology procedure. I can deal with Histopathology / cytology / clinical pathology and clinical chemistry queries. Helping in this manner will be my contribution to the community.
Experience I am a pathologist and director of clinical laboratory services. I have been a practicing pathologist for last 9 years in a 350 bed multi specialty hospital laboratory.
Organizations Indian association of pathologists and microbiologists.
MIAC - Member International Academy of Cytology
International association of Pathologists - indian division
Indian association of Cytology
Question My daughter was sick a month ago and the doctor did blood work. her counts were off they wanted do redo them in a month. I just got them done and her wbc is 14.6. she is 17 yrs old. last year on her yearly exam they did blood work and her white blood count was 13.4 why is it high. for the past year she has been complaining of pain in her left side just below her rib cage. Her doctor says nothing is there so do not worry about it. The only explaination about her wbc is the its JUST high. Should I worry
Answer Hello Shelby:
As the doctor says she may just have this as her normal level. The ranges for these tests are an average of values from a given set of normal population. There are always people who fall outside this range.
In addition this could be a physiological rise and is temporary...due to stress, physical exercise--walk around the block / climbing stairs etc just before the test.
If she is otherwise healthy and has no unusual symptoms, I think you need not worry.
