WBC's

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I am trying to make sense of bloodwork had done end of January this

year, when his amylase was out of range. We have our appt with a new ped GI

tomorrow for a second opinion to try to help sort out the chronic ab pain/mouth

ulcers/food aversion of s. So I gathered up copies of the two most

recent blood draws to take with us. These included

liver function (normal)

lipase (in range)

amylase (elevated at 205, range being 0 - 125)

iron studies (with normal iron stores but elevated iron at 25, range being 7 -

18)--THANKYOU PEDIASURE!

CRP ( in range at <1, range being (0 - 8)

and full blood count (all in range but WBC at 3.6, range being 5 - 17)

Its the WBC that stumps me. If the neutrophils, lymphocytes etc are all in

range (although some just barely) how can the WBC be out of range? Obviously

I'm missing something here, and likely knowing me its something pretty obvious

: / lol....... The last WBC results I have are from 2000 and they were

out of range too at 3.8. I'm just curious if this could mean anything at all or

very little.

BTW, next lab results (taken in February) were only of lipase amylase and

random glucose, no WBC for comparison. Interestingly the

amylase was back in range at 116 (range 0 - 125)

but the lipase was out at 161 (range 25 - 120)

and the random glucose came in elevated at 6.1 (range 3.3 - 5.5)

the GI did not mention the blood glucose level results to me, and although the

lab recommended 'further investigation including an oral glucose tolerance test'

nothing to date has been arranged.

For those of you with knowledge on blood glucose levels, is the elevation enough

that I should bring it up at tomorrows appt? And if anyone can shed some light

on why the amylase and lipase is elevated at times I would truly appreciate some

feedback. I dont hold much hope that the appt tomorrow will be of much help.

especially when the specialist is the partner of the current GI and may not want

to step on her toes by truly delving in to s case. Still , there is no

one else we can see bar flying to the other side of Australia or across to the

US which is looking more and more possible, and at this stage we really have

nothing to lose by seeing this new dr. All we ask of him is 2 things- to stop

the pain and get him eating. And maybe, just maybe, he'll be able to help

with these mouth ulcers as well. Surely with all the lab work and

investigations already done GI wise he can come up with something better than 'I

dont know' . I would hate to be told that one again.