Why would a leukemia patient have limited visitors?
Why would a hospitalized leukemia patient have limited visitors? Is it because his immune system is damaged? Is it because he may get a bone marrow transplant? If a patient can have one visitor, why can't he have more? Thanks for any information you can provide.
- zach
they have very low immunity and if they get even the slightest germ it could easily kill them so limiting the # of people near them limits the chance of that happening and most are so sick they are not up to large crowds of people visiting them anyway
- Tripp G
i have no idea
- Marko M
easy..because they have leukemia, which means their secondary defense system or white blood cells is below the normal level and the usual level of WBC in the body would be 5-10 x 10 9/L (superscript the 9)..
Hope I heleped..
- handy gadget
Because his immune systems is so severely comprimised from chemo that they have not the ability to fight off infection and therefore would comprimise bone marrow transplant.
- Steve
Either... the patient has had or will have chemo therapy that will dwindle their ability to fight even simple infections. A ordinary cold or sinus infection can spell horriffic complications. They have to be infection-free BEFORE and AFTER the therapies. There will be a "green light" that will be given at a safe time.
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