Complete blood count for mycoplasma pneumonia

In general, the total number of white blood cells in patients with mycoplasma pneumonia is occasionally elevated within the normal range, and some patients may have significantly increased leukocytes, and a small number of patients will have abnormal leukocytes, and neutrophils and eosinophils are the main ones in the classification, and platelets may be reduced.

Mycoplasma pneumonia is mainly due to acute inflammation of the respiratory tract and lungs caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection, formerly known as primary atypical pneumonia, often accompanied by pharyngitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, slow onset, fever, paroxysmal irritating cough, a small amount of mucinous or mucopurulent sputum, pulmonary signs are not obvious, but it is easy to cause extrapulmonary multisystem involvement, and may also be life-threatening or death-threatening.

It is more common in children or adolescents, the incubation period is generally two to three weeks in the symptom manifestation, the onset is slow, one-third of the patients have no symptoms, with tracheobronchitis pneumonia, and then in the form of otoperiostitis, often the most severe manifestation of pneumonia, there will be fatigue, headache, sore throat, chills and fever, muscle aches, loss of appetite, nausea as the manifestation, and the body temperature may be as high as 39 degrees.