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Originally Posted by AddyGGsMom
The lady at the Neutropenia Registry said it was normal for Idiopathic to rise like that with an illness, but she never has before.
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AddyGGsMom,
When you have an active infection, your white count naturally rises, and that artificially inflates your ANC. Perhaps your daughter's ANC went up those previous times but her white count simply wasn't measured at the time. In any case, it's the ANC when you're otherwise healthy that assesses your infection risk.
Has her doctor referred to her disease as
cyclic neutropenia, which seems to be what the biopsy report is referring to? It usually takes a doctor to translate biopsy reports into English that the rest of us can understand.
Have the doctors recommended any treatment other than handling infections as they come up? With a child, you have to think both short-term and long-term about the approach you take.