Working with Low WBC

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Specializes in Pediatrics :).

This is probably the most stupid question I've ever asked, but is it a good idea to work in a hospital when WBC is low-beneath the "acceptable range," with neutrophils low and lymphocyte % high? No dx yet by the way.

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We can't give medical advice on here, since we don't know anything about you. The best thing you can do is talk to the MD whose care you are under, before you go back to work.

Hope everything turns out ok.

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Specializes in 5 years peds, 35 years med-surg.
this is probably the most stupid question i've ever asked, but is it a good idea to work in a hospital when wbc is low-beneath the "acceptable range," with neutrophils low and lymphocyte % high? no dx yet by the way.

when i was on chemo and radiation i worked every day on a med-surg floor with a wbc of around 1.2 and i did just fine except for being extremely tired. i would get my chemo during my 30-min lunch and my radiation after work. there were days that at about 1300 i would go behind the med room door and cry and thought i wouldn't make it till 1500 to go home...but i always did make it!

the only difference in my work was that they didn't assign me isolation patients. it got a little better when i started taking neupogen for my low wbc's.

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Specializes in Pediatrics :).

Right...well, thanks anyway...I suppose this isn't one of those "opinion questions"

Added: Thanks flasandy42, sounds like it's do-able in theory...Wish I knew what was going on...so far I'm labeling this as idiopathic...

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Right...well, thanks anyway...I suppose this isn't one of those "opinion questions"

Added: Thanks flasandy42, sounds like it's do-able in theory...Wish I knew what was going on...so far I'm labeling this as idiopathic...

is your doctor worried about you working? does s/he mention if you're immunocompromised? are you a candidate for neupogen? i wish you well.

leslie

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