Patient's question:
Suddenly, the baby had 20 many episodes of diarrhea in one day and went to the hospital. The check revealed white blood cells as high as 19,000. After five days of intravenous fluids, the recheck showed 15,000 but the diarrhea still occurred 20 many times a day. During the five days of intravenous fluids, the baby only had a fever once. The doctor said it was necessary to wait for the white blood cells to decrease before stopping the diarrhea.I thought this was not working, so I changed hospitals for two days of intravenous fluids, and the diarrhea stopped. After stopping the diarrhea, I continued intravenous fluids for three more days before stopping. Four days later, the baby started having a fever of 39.2°C and underwent intravenous fluids. The fever lasted for one day before returning. This cycle of fever continued, with the baby having a fever almost every other day. The check at the hospital showed white blood cells at 15,000, and the doctor recommended continuing intravenous fluids. However, it seemed to have no effect, so I switched the baby to traditional Chinese medicine. The doctor prescribed three days of traditional Chinese medicine, which the baby has taken for two days but is still running a fever.
Hello, what could be the reason for this?
Previous Treatment and Effects:
Previously, the baby had a thorough check-up at the hospital, revealing white blood cells at 14,000. After three days of intravenous fluids, everything improved.
Desired Help:
How can the white blood cells be reduced? Should I continue with intravenous fluids or switch to traditional Chinese medicine?
Doctor's answer:
This friend, based on the situation you described, consider viral infection mixed with bacterial infection. The baby has diarrhea, consider pediatric enteritis, caused by viral infection, course of 7 days, in the middle do not advocate the use of anti-diarrheal drugs, so you said the hospital was fine on the third day, even if you don't change hospitals, it should be about the same, but the baby's white blood cell count is high, consider mixed bacterial infection, high white blood cell count will reappear recurrent fever, it is recommended to start anti-inflammatory treatment immediately.