Stool white blood cells

Fecal white blood cell examination is a routine item in stool, which can help understand digestive and absorption functions and help diagnose digestive diseases. It is not or occasionally seen in normal feces, and is mostly found in specimens with mucus, mainly neutrophils. Enteritis is usually less than 15 per HPF and scattered. The specific amount is related to the severity and location of inflammation. When the small intestine is mild, the number of white blood cells is not large, and they are evenly mixed in the feces. Colonic inflammation, such as bacterial dysentery, can be seen in the amount of white blood cells or piles of pus cells, can also be seen swallowing foreign bodies, not small phagocytic cells. In irritable bowel syndrome and intestinal parasitic disease (especially hookworm anaemia dysentery), fecal smears can also show a lot of eosinophils, which can be accompanied by Charaledon crystals.

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