How Can I Treat Low White Blood Count?

The common clinical term for a low white blood count is leukopenia. The main causes to leukopenia are a nutrition deficiency, chemotherapy, rheumatoid arthritis and certain medications that will lower the count of the white blood cells. Different medicines and diets can fix this problem, such as immune boosters and increased eating of fresh foods diet compared with raw foods.

Diets

• When a person's white blood counts drop drastically, the immune system also falls alongside it. Due to that fact, eating any raw foods will tend to make you sick as the immune systems cannot fight off any foreign bacteria that come along with eating foods that haven't been prepared in any way. A suggestion from the Cancer Support Care, which sees many of these cases after chemotherapy trials, is to stay away from Sushi restaurants, salad bars and especially fast food restaurants that commonly will pre-package their food and let it sit for a given amount of time. All food a person with low white blood counts should consume need to be fresh with little time left sitting around to become blemished and foreign agents attracted to it, such as store meats, vegetables and fruits.

  Some foods to avoid in your diet are, first and foremost, raw and undercooked meats (beef, fish, poutry) as their chance of having foreign bacteria and agents are greater when not cooked all the way through, unpasteurized dairy products and ice creams and yogurts that are soft serve. By keeping a "fresh food" diet, you will allow your immune system to have a small rest so that the white blood counts can naturally build themselves back up from the various vitamins and minerals found in your foods.

Immune Boosters

• Chinese medicine is a good resource to find immune boosters that will also help regain the white blood cells that are missing from the bloodstream. Resist is an immune system booster that many cancer patients use after chemotherapy and radiation to help their immune system and fight of leukopenia. The way it works is by combining 17 Chinese herbs that enhance the cellular immunity in the body and, by allowing your body to not have to fight off illness. The immune system will be rebuilt and the white blood count will return back as the extra cells will not have to fight off bacteria by having to restore cells in the immune system.