Low neutrophils in baby

[MrsCeecee]

Hi. Just looking for people’s experiences. My seven-week-old had a blood test a few weeks ago because of jaundice and it was discovered that he’s got low neutrophils. He’s been having regular blood tests since - they were going up initially (0.8 to 0.9) but his last test was 0.6. They should be above 1.

I’m worried sick as low neutrophils could be a sign of leukaemia (I really shouldn’t have googled). Does anyone have any experience of low neutrophils in a baby?

Thank you x

Has he had antibiotics or similar? DS's neutrophils took a real hit when he had intravenous antibiotics at 6 weeks. It was terrifying but they went back up naturally over a period of 1-2 weeks and he's now a healthy 5 year old.

@nc22124 No, no antibiotics x

We're moving this thread to our Children's Health topic for the OP, and giving it a bump to get it back into active conversations.

And another hopeful bump.

Hi @MrsCeecee - just wanted to see how you got on with this? I’m having a similar experience with my 5 week old. Hope all is ok!

Everything is fine 😊 His blood was tested regularly and on the last test a few weeks ago they’d gone back up to normal! No idea what the cause was. Hope all is well for you xx

@MrsCeecee thanks so much for the update and happy to hear everything is fine! Fingers crossed we end up with a similar result! X

How long did it take for your LO's numbers to rise to normal levels? My LO was found to be neutropenic at 3 weeks and levels started to gradually rise at 4 months. Her past two levels have been normal, but one was a response to vaccines and we think she had a cold most recently x

@Beth98 I think it was about three months of getting regularly tested before they went back up xx

Okay thank you. Was that back to normal within 3 months or started rising gradually? X

They rose very gradually over the three month period (though went down again at one point) until they were back to normal (though only just) at the end of it x