My down syndrome thirteen year old neice was tak to the er today. She has mesenteric addentitis. Everything was in normal ranfe except her Neutrophils were 9.7 bil/l with a range of 1.8-8.0 so they were high and her lymphocytes were 0.7 bil/l with a range of 1.2-5.2. I understand why the neutrophils are high, but why are the lymphs low? Her wbc was 11.3 with a range of 4.5-13.0. Any info. on why the lymphs would be low would be great. Also, amI reading this wrong, is this not the absolute count?