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What are eosinophils? What do elevated eosinophils mean? What is the high level of this indicator related to? Do they mean some serious illness? The question is answered by the drug. Paweł Żmuda-Trzebiatowski.
What do elevated eosinophils mean?
Good day. I am a 42 year old woman. I have had health problems for years, I suffer from asthma and I have problems with the thyroid gland. Of course, I am under the constant supervision of a doctor, I also regularly undergo preventive examinations. Recently, I was concerned about a result in blood tests and I would like to ask what are the evidence of elevated eosinophils? The result was somehow not significantly overestimated, although it clearly exceeded the norm.
Of course, I will consult it with my doctor, but I still have some time to visit and I wonder if there are any reasons for concern. Where did these elevated eosinophils? Could this be related to my thyroid or asthmatic problems or has nothing to do with the other? Could elevated eosinophils be a sign of some other disease that occurs in my body?
I would like to emphasize that so far this value in my results was normal, only now for the first time eosinophils were elevated. Do I have reasons to worry or can I wait for my next visit to the doctor?
The doctor explains what the elevated eosinophils indicate
Ladies and Gentlemen, an increased amount of eosinophils in the peripheral blood very often indicates allergic diseases, including bronchial asthma, urticaria or atopic dermatitis. In your case it is very possible that this is the cause of the abnormal morphology. Of course, it cannot be determined XNUMX%, therefore the family doctor or the attending physician may recommend further diagnostics.
In addition to allergic diseases too excess eosinophilia in the blood parasitic infections may correspond, including ascariasis, trichinosis, echinococcosis and toxocarosis. Unfortunately, we cannot forget about diseases that are more dangerous to our health, which can manifest themselves in eosinophilia (increased number of eosinophils in the blood). These include neoplastic diseases such as chronic myeloid leukemia, chronic eosinophilic leukemia and Hodgkin’s lymphoma, as well as connective tissue diseases, i.e. collagen diseases.
In addition to these conditions, eosinophilia can also be caused by rare diseases such as Churg-Strauss syndrome, Loeffler syndrome, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome and amyloidosis. Apart from disease entities, medications, including penicillins, streptomycin or phenothiazines, may be responsible for the increased number of eosinophils.
As you noticed, the reasons may be different, which is why further diagnostics is so important. I propose to do the blood count again and go to the family doctor with the results.
– Lek. Paweł Żmuda-Trzebiatowski
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