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Mon, Nov-06-06 08:41 |
Medical ppl. What is EO% (Hematology)?Eosinophils!
Normal range is 5 to 10, mine apparently is low at 2. (Shows up in the abnormal column)
In case anyone is interested, I found some information.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~aair/eosinophils.htm
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Eosinophils, ('eosin' = the name of a red dye, 'phil' = loving) stain red under the microscope because they are full of little packages of poisonous chemicals (toxins) and these show as microscopic granules which stain red. Eosinophils gather wherever there is a parasite infection or an allergic reaction such as allergic asthma, and then release their toxins. The toxins are very efficient at harming parasites, but unfortunately will also harm us if released in the wrong place. So the lining of the lungs becomes damaged in asthma, and one of the most important purposes of asthma treatment is to prevent this damage.
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Maybe this explains why I can mow the lawn with no problem... :lol:
ALL RIGHT!!
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My eosinophil count is zero. Does this mean I am ill?
Not at all. In healthy people there are so few eosinophils in the blood that it can happen that the person counting the cells under a microscope does not find any. Nowadays we mostly use machines for this work, and the machines normally cannot count eosinophils at all. So the printed blood report seems to say there are none, but this is meaningless.
I do not know whether there is such a thing as a medical condition in which eosinophils are truly absent. I am certainly not aware of anyone being ill as a result.
In fact a low or zero eosinophil count, if it has been done by a human being instead of a machine, is a good sign. It argues against severe forms of diseases which raise the eosinophil count, including the kind of allergy which can raise the count. Far from being a sign of illness, it could be a sign of good health.
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This also may explain my grandmother's asthma. She has/had malaria. Not sure of the tense as I understand you can't get rid of it?
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