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What Causes Pain In Hands And Fatigue?
For a year my daughter has felt tired and like she has been hit by a baseball bat. Her blood tests indicate a low white blood cell count. Her hands have pain and she cannot make a fist. She is seeing a RA doctor. What do you think she has. They have mentioned auto immune disease, but which one fits this scenario?
Mon, 20 Apr 2015
Hi, Sir normally in auto immune diseases the white cell count increases as a result of body reaction to the antigen, decrease or low counts are seen in blood malignancies, or if the immune system has been damaged to the extent that it cannot respond, the so called immune deficiency disease, HIV being one of them. consult a hematologist and get full PBF done to see if there are any abnormal cells,
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