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find out if your case is CHRONIC

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gee29819
gee29819

"Chronic infectious mononucleosis is rare and occurs in those with immunologic abnormalities. Such patients present with

1) fever

2 ) lymphadenopathy

3) persistently elevated serum transaminases

4) pancytopenia.

Eye or neurologic abnormalities may also be present".

(Source: emedicine.com )

So basically everyone should get full blood count and liver function tests to find out if they're in risk. Fyi. 

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  • craig07920
    craig07920 gee29819

    Posted

    Hi Gee,

    Hope that you are feeling not too bad today.

    Just a reminder to everyone that these symptoms are also normal just in the normal course of glandular fever, and the fact that these symptoms go on for a many months in lots of people doesn't mean to say they have chronic EBV - in the vast majority of cases it's not. For example, my liver tests were a bit off when going through glandular fever but it didn't mean that it wouldn't go away.

    Craig

    • rosanna27156
      rosanna27156 craig07920

      Posted

      Hi Craig

      Is it normal to have a slightly high white blood count with glandular fever? Xx

    • craig07920
      craig07920 rosanna27156

      Posted

      Hi Rosanna,

      I'm no medical expert so don't take my view as read by any means.....I don't know much about blood tests, etc......from my limited knowledge it would seem to make sense to me that white blood count or lympocytes would be raised during glandular fever as that's a sign that your body is fighting infection - that makes sense in my mind. But again better to speak to a medical person about it!!

      Hoping that today can be a good day for you.

      Craig

    • brent_83487
      brent_83487 craig07920

      Posted

      Thanks for being on the site. You have helped me a lot. God Bless!!!
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