Question

Review the disease process of leukemia and clarify why the major symptoms come from anemia, thrombocytopenia, and neutropenia. Why would a leukemic child have either a high or low white blood cell count or what the lab results mean?

Answer 1

Luekemia is a type of cancer of blood and bone marrow.

Most symptoms such Anemia ,thrombocytopenia, neutropenia are caused by low levels of blood cells in the body.

Numerous people does not encounter the side-effects of the beginning stage of leukaemia.

Side effects of luekamia include Anemia which is the low levels of RBC in the body.Thrombocytopenia is the low blood platelet count.Nuetropenia is the low level of WBC count in the body mainly nutrophils.

Leukemic child have either high or low WBC count because this disesed result in the formation of high or low levels of WBC.Because bone marrow produces most type of blood cells.When leukaemia occurs this causes bone marrow to produce immature cells and production of some cells in high number and some cell lines are underproduced.

This causes more production of WBC and this abnormal WBC cannot fight infections and also impair the ability to produce RBC and platelets.

Lab results

If a complete blood count shows abnormal high or low WBC count and abnormalities in RBC and platelet count.