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White Blood Cells In Stool Are Indicative Of What? Thank

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Posted on Sun, 21 Oct 2018
Question: White blood cells in stool are indicative of what?
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Follow up: Dr. Ramesh Kumar (17 minutes later)
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Answered by Dr. Ramesh Kumar (52 minutes later)
Brief Answer:
Inflammatory diarrhea.

Detailed Answer:
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I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.

White blood cells are immune system cells that can show up in the stool if you have inflammatory diarrhea. This type of diarrhea may be a symptom of an infection caused by bacteria such as shigella, Clostridium difficile, campylobacter, or salmonella.Protozoans are rarely involved.

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Stool culture and sensitivity should be done to rule out the name of bacteria involved and antibiotic has to pe started accordingy.
Flagyl covers protozoa's but not bacteria's.
So my suggestion is take a broad sprectrum antibacterial like Ciprofloxacin 500 twice daily for 5 days with flagyl 400 mg thrice daily(full coverage).
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Prasad
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Follow up: Dr. Ramesh Kumar (33 minutes later)
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Answered by Dr. Ramesh Kumar (16 minutes later)
Brief Answer:
welcome.

Detailed Answer:
Hope i was helpful.
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