- See Neutrophils/Left Shift
- Lymphocytes: (24-44%)
- Increased: Measles, German Measles, Mumps, Whooping Cough, Small pox, Chicken pox, Influenza, Hepatitis, Infectious Mononucleosis, Acute Infectious Lymphocytosis in children, Virtually any Viral Infection, Acute and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemias;
- Decreased: After Stress, Burns, Trauma, Nl variation, Uremia;
- Monocytes (3-7%)
- Increased: Bacterial infection (TB, SBE, Brucellosis, Typhoid, Recovery from Acute Infection), Protozoal infection, Infectious Mononucleosis, Leukemia, Hodgkin's dz, Ulcerative colitis, Regional Enteritis;
- Mast Cells:
- Mastocytosis
- Eosinophils: (1-3%)
- Increased:
- Allergy: Asthma, Hizes, Hay Fever, Angioneurotic edema;
- Parasites, Aspergillosis, Coccidioidomycosis;
- Skin dz: Dermatitis herp., mycosis fungoides, contact dermatitis;
- Malignancy: CML, Hodgkin's, Mycosis fungoides, Sezary, ALL
- Medications
- Asthma
- Addison's dz
- Collagen Vascular dz
- Pulmonary dz w/ Infiltrates;
- Decreased:
- Steroid Rx
- ACTH
- Infection, Trauma, Burns
- Cushing's syndrome;
- Basophils: (0-1%)
- Increased: Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, rarely in Recovery from Infection, and from Hypothyroidism
- Decreased: Acute Rheumatic Fever, Lobar Pneumonia, after Steroid Rx, Thyrotoxicosis, Stress