Is it serious if a child has a white blood cell count of 20?

Many family members will worry about the blood count of their children when they have a fever and go to the hospital for blood tests. After the test, if the blood count is poor, they will simply treat the child's fever. This is a very healthy and important awareness. There may also be problems with high white blood cell counts discovered after examination. Generally, high white blood cell counts can prove bacterial infection and require specialized anti-infection treatment. This article introduces the things to pay attention to when a child’s white blood cell count reaches 20. Let’s take a look.

The normal value of white blood cells is 4-10. If a child has a white blood cell count of 20, it can be said to be relatively serious. This means that there is a bacterial infection and anti-infection treatment is necessary.

If the baby has weak resistance, it is easy to be infected by bacteria and suffer from various diseases, such as bacterial colds, diarrhea, pneumonia, etc. Many parents believe that antibiotics can effectively relieve symptoms, and even mistakenly believe that antibiotics are anti-inflammatory drugs. It is normal to use antibiotics when you are sick. In fact, antibiotics are not anti-inflammatory drugs. The abuse of antibiotics may weaken the baby's resistance. The drugs have strong side effects and may also affect the baby's internal organs. Therefore, antibiotics should be used with caution. Even if your baby is sick and must use antibiotics, you must pay attention to the following matters:

If your baby has a fever, you must be diagnosed by a doctor and the cause of the fever must be confirmed to be a bacterial infection before antibiotics can be used. If the fever is caused by a viral cold, the abuse of antibiotics will be useless.

The selection of antibiotics should be targeted and appropriate for the disease. The newer and more expensive the antibiotic is, the more effective it is not. Some simple bacterial infections can be cured by using old brand antibiotics such as penicillin and erythromycin. These antibiotics are stable, cheap, and have better curative effects.

Do not use multiple antibiotics for your baby at the same time. Antibiotics themselves have a certain impact on the internal organs of the human body. If you blindly mix and use multiple antibiotics at one time, the efficacy of the antibiotics is likely to react chemically and even have side effects. Not only will it fail to cure the disease, but it will aggravate the harm to your health. Therefore, the choice of antibiotics is not the case. More is better. You should choose one to the end.

Give antibiotics to your baby according to the instructions or doctor's orders. Parents should not change the usage method or dosage without permission. Improper usage may affect the efficacy of the medicine or even endanger health. After all, all medicines are toxic. Do not extend or interrupt the medication period. If you interrupt prematurely, the disease may not be cured and may relapse.

Do not use antibiotics for your baby too frequently. When your baby is sick, try to use mild medications. Only use antibiotics when the condition is serious or necessary. If you have just used antibiotics, do not rush to use them again within a short period of time, because over time, the human body may develop resistance to antibiotics, and then antibiotics may become less effective for your child.

When your baby is sick and goes to the hospital for treatment, after the doctor issues a diagnosis report for the baby and prescribes a detailed list of medicines, you should ask in detail whether there are antibiotics. You should also ask the doctor whether there are any precautions for the baby while taking antibiotics, such as which foods to avoid, so as not to affect the efficacy of the medicine by feeding the child foods that should not be eaten.