Anyone else have high blood lymphocyte?

[StarDust]

Mine are like 54% on regular basis, the average range is 25-40. High lymphocyte usually suggest your body is fighting an infection..

[Jj85]

I don't have this problem, but my last few blood tests (all from awhile back) showed that I had raised eosinophil leves (this is a different type of white blood cell). I never really followed up on it, but high eosinophil indicates (usually) that your body is having an allergic reaction to something.

I've recently cut out aspartame from my diet, and my exercise tolerance has been much better. I'm thinking that maybe it was an aspartame allergy that sort of put my body over the edge, especially since aspartame allergies have (anecdotally) been shown to mimic diseases such as mono, for example... but I'll wait for more consistent results before I make that conclusion for myself.

I guess my point is that you really should follow up on this--try to see an infectious disease specialist, because you never know.

[lili2701]

yes I had that but they have lowered since..
So the question is, what infection? have they checked. EBV virus, CMV, coksakie, toxoplasmosis?

[alicewoolf]

Yes I have high lymphocyte levels but when I asked the doctor he said that was fine and not to worry. It freaked me out a bit but I guess these things are common.

[lili2701]

oh dear, answers from doctors!!!
of course it's not right! even if it's not much, the fact that it's high means there's an infection somewhere!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphocyte
now i've had a look on wikipedia i realise I had too much natural killer cells, didnt know they were lymphocites so yes it means ur immune system is fighting against sthg! it's not thing.. it's just doctor's answer to anything these days "oh it's nothing!" grr it makes me nuts!