I am 30 years old I found very low rate of platelets in my blood it is just 1.6 lakhs just over normal range, docters adviced me to keep away myself from any damage. What should I do to, and please answer me why it happend with me?
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If for any reason your blood platelet count falls below normal, the condition is called thrombocytopenia. Normally, you have anywhere from 150, 000 to 450, 000 platelets per microliter of circulating blood. Because each platelet lives only about 10 days, your body continually renews your platelet supply by producing new platelets in your bone marrow. Thrombocytopenia can be inherited or it may be caused by a number of medications or conditions. Whatever the cause, circulating platelets are reduced by one or more of the following processes: trapping of platelets in the spleen, decreased platelet production or increased destruction of platelets. Yours count is absolutely normal. Sometimes following viral infection it goes low. Till 60, 000 we don't bother so much. We recheck it within a day or two. Check again after 6 months. If it is within normal range don't bother further. If it goes below 1.2 lakh / micro litre consult a haematologist.
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