What causes high platelet count in children?

After a child is born, most people know that they should go to the hospital for regular physical examinations. Many children will encounter high platelet counts. Because parents will pay attention to their children's health, there are rarely any mistakes. What are the reasons for high platelet counts? What should we pay attention to in the future? You can follow the editor to learn about it.

1. High platelet count can be caused by many situations. For normal people, the platelet count generally fluctuates by 6%-10% a day. It is lower in the morning and slightly higher in the afternoon. It is lower in spring and slightly higher in winter. It is higher in plateau areas, increases after menstruation, and increases after exercise. Pathological myeloproliferative diseases, essential thrombocythemia, acute hemolysis, acute suppurative infection.

2. Thrombocytosis: When >400x109/L, it is thrombocytosis. Primary thrombocytosis is common in myeloproliferative diseases, such as chronic myeloid leukemia, polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia, etc.; reactive thrombocytosis is common in patients with acute and chronic inflammation, iron deficiency anemia and cancer. This type of increase generally does not exceed 500×109/L. The situation improves after treatment and the platelet count will quickly drop to normal levels.

3. If necessary, a bone marrow biopsy can be done to see if there are any problems with bone marrow hematopoiesis. The root cause of this disease is the defect of human immune mechanism and the imbalance and disorder of immune system.

4. Western medicine can generally alleviate the condition to a certain extent, but it cannot cure the root cause, and it has great toxic side effects. Long-term use of hormones and other drugs will also affect the normal growth and development of children.

5. This disease can be cured mainly through Chinese herbal medicine conditioning, but Chinese medicine is available all over the country. It’s just that each Chinese medicine expert’s treatment plan is different, and the treatment effect and prognosis that can be achieved are also different. The Chinese medicine treatment plan is very important.

The problem of high platelets cannot be ignored, especially when children are still in the stage of physical growth. Once a problem is discovered, it should be treated, otherwise the problem will worsen and even seriously endanger their lives. So after the editor analyzed the reasons, parents must pay attention to controlling the number of platelets to prevent future diseases.