Expert: Neha Dahiya MD - 6/22/2009

Question
I received my blood work report from my Dr Friday and my Monocytes(Absolute) count which should be 4-13 is 1.  I seen the nurse practitioner and she went over the results with me and did not mention this.  So did she miss something and should I call and question this or is it nothing to worry about?  Everything else looks to be in the normal range except my RDW is a little high at 15.1 the range says 11.7-15.0

Answer
Hello Annette:

Your blood counts are within normal range as mentioned by you. Only the monocytes are at a low level of 1. This is not something to worry about. All blood value ranges are an average of a set of normal population. people do fall out of the range and as long as you are healthy this is not significant.