Is a white blood cell count of 16 normal?

White blood cell count of 16 x 10^9/L, higher than the normal range, indicating that there may be a combination of infections, in addition to leukemia and other may also be increased white blood cells, according to the condition of the need to find out the cause, and then treatment.
The normal value of white blood cells is 4~10×10^9/L. If the white blood cells are 16×10^9/L, which is obviously higher than the normal range, it may be combined with bacterial infection and mycoplasma infection, which causes high white blood cells, such as pneumonia, bronchitis, and lymphadenitis.
2. Blood system diseases: such as leukemia, etc., which may be accompanied by fever, sternal pressure pain and other symptoms, and can be diagnosed by bone marrow aspiration and so on.
The value of white blood cells is affected by exercise, diet, stress factors and other aspects.
When the white blood cells are high, according to the patient’s clinical symptoms, it is necessary to consider whether there is a combination of bacterial infection, or hematological diseases, if there is an infection, oral antibiotic treatment, commonly used drugs are amoxicillin capsules, levofloxacin capsules and so on. If it is leukemia, it is recommended to go to the hematology department of the hospital.