Patient's question:
The child has small red spots on both soles and needs to go to the hospital for a check-up. First, urine and blood tests need to be done. The results show weak positive occult blood in the urine test and low white blood cells in the blood test. What's the problem? Is it serious?Doctor's answer:
The skin has appeared with small red spots again. The purpose of a blood routine test is to check for thrombocytopenia, which is unrelated to leukopenia. The common cause of leukopenia is viral infection. Generally, if small bleeding spots appear symmetrically on the limbs, it may be considered a possibility of allergic purpura. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct blood routine and urine routine tests. The child's urine routine shows a weakly positive red blood cell result, which does not indicate any specific issue.