What Diseases Can High White Blood Cell Count in Babies Cause? How to Address It?

Babies have relatively poor immunity, and certain reasons in their lives may lead to elevated white blood cell count, such as tissue damage or necrosis, allergies, poisoning, etc. It is also important to be vigilant about some more serious diseases, the most common being tumors and hematological diseases. General treatment and antimicrobial drugs can be used to alleviate symptoms.

1. Diseases caused by certain bacterial infections, especially local inflammation and systemic infections caused by pyogenic cocci, such as abscesses, purulent meningitis, pneumonia, appendicitis, otitis media, tonsillitis, empyema, pyelonephritis, salpingitis, cholecystitis, and septicemia.

2. Diseases caused by certain viral infections: encephalitis B, infectious mononucleosis, measles, etc.

3. Severe tissue damage or necrosis: such as after major surgery, burns, acute hemorrhage, severe trauma, vascular embolism, etc.

4. Allergic reactions: such as transfusion reactions, drug allergies, acute allergic diseases, etc.

5. Toxic reactions: such as various drug poisonings, pesticide poisonings, heavy metal poisonings, diabetic acidosis, pregnancy toxicity, etc.

6. Tumors and hematological diseases: chronic granulocytic leukemia, acute granulocytic leukemia, etc.

7. The use of certain chemical drugs that increase white blood cells to promote their elevation, which is commonly seen during chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment when the number of white blood cells decreases rapidly, and it is necessary to quickly increase the white blood cell count for the next step of treatment.

1. General treatment: Babies with high fever during the acute phase should rest in bed, encouraged to drink plenty of water and urinate frequently to promote the rapid excretion of bacteria and inflammatory exudates.

2. Antimicrobial drugs: Anti-Gram-negative bacilli drugs are commonly used, such as compound sulfamethoxazole 2 tablets taken orally twice daily; nitrofurantoin 0.1g taken orally three times daily; sulfamethoxazole 1.0g taken orally twice daily; cephalosporin VI 0.25-0.5g taken four times daily; norfloxacin 0.2g taken three times daily. For those with high body temperature and obvious systemic symptoms, gentamicin 80,000 units can be injected intramuscularly twice daily; ampicillin 50-100mg/kg can be taken orally or injected intramuscularly in four divided doses. Carbenicillin or sulbactam can be used for infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Proteus vulgaris. The treatment course is 2 weeks, and urine routine and bacterial culture should be re-examined weekly for 2-3 times after the end of the course, and once again 6 weeks later. Only when all tests are negative can it be considered cured.