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Low WBC
Hi run4peach1,
You know pneumonia is the most dreaded infection for MDS patients - perhaps your Dad got full treatment but he still got an infection. He can have another type of infection now and maybee needs another kind of antibiotics.
I hope - like you do - that they will give him Neupogen or a similar drug now because when the WBC:s are 1.6 the neutrophils are about 0.8. Then the risk for neutropenic fever is high. The first time you get neutropenic fever it is often quite easy to treat (bacteria) but next time it can be fungi or virus, that are much more difficult to treat.
It is obvious that your Dad's bone marrow is tired and can't make more WBC:s even when he has an infection and needs help from Neupogen.
Kind regards
Birgitta-A
Neutropenic fever Sept 2007 after 3 infections. Since then on Neupogen 2 injections/week with good effect
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