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What Causes Low Platelet Count?

My brother in law 70 years about week back had fever shooting up to 106.Got book tests done.platelet count reported as 25000 and Ns1 test positive.Rushed him to local hospital at Ghaziabad (Yashoda),given patelet tranfusion.Count rose to 35000.We hoped it continue to rise.Count fell to 20/13000, again given platelet transfusion yesterday.We are worried.Hope some one expert will guide us for further medical care. S P Vatsa
Mon, 12 Oct 2015
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Hi & Welcome.

I can understand your concern for your brother.
Low platelet count is due to some internal bleeding due to Dengue fever.

After having gone through the history given in your query and the positive NS1 test, it seems to me he is suffering from hemorrhagic (bleeding) dengue fever.
His platelet count is decreasing due to some internal bleeding caused by Dengue fever. He must continue to take platelet infusion, packed cells, IV fluids, to correct the platelet counts.

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What Causes Low Platelet Count?

Hi & Welcome. I can understand your concern for your brother. Low platelet count is due to some internal bleeding due to Dengue fever. After having gone through the history given in your query and the positive NS1 test, it seems to me he is suffering from hemorrhagic (bleeding) dengue fever. His platelet count is decreasing due to some internal bleeding caused by Dengue fever. He must continue to take platelet infusion, packed cells, IV fluids, to correct the platelet counts. Hope this answers your query.