How long it takes for low platelets to return to normal varies from months to years depending on the cause of the patient’s thrombocytopenia.
The following diseases are common with low platelets:
1. Insufficient platelet production: aplastic anemia, acute leukemia, and severe infections, or xylene exposure, etc., leading to the proliferation of megakaryocytes in the bone marrow, maturation disorders, causing insufficient platelet production.
2. Excessive platelet destruction: primary immune thrombocytopenia, systemic lupus erythematosus, sulfonamide and other drugs lead to excessive platelet destruction.
3. Abnormal distribution of platelets: hypersplenism or splenomegaly leads to excessive retention of platelets in the spleen, resulting in a decrease in the number of platelets.
Treatment of low platelet count requires etiological treatment. For example, for primary immune thrombocytopenia, the normalization of the index can be achieved within a few months after treatment with glucocorticoids and gammaglobulin, etc. For aplastic anemia, immunosuppression and other treatments are needed, and the treatment time may be up to a few years, and in addition, platelet transfusion is also available.
Thrombocytopenia is defined as a platelet count of less than 100 x 10^9/L in the peripheral blood. In general, platelet count less than 50 × 10^9 / L, there is a risk of bleeding from the skin, mucous membranes, organs, if less than 20 × 10^9 / L, the risk of spontaneous bleeding is high; the indicator & lt; 10 × 10^9 / L, the risk of bleeding is extremely high.
Low platelets, you need to seek medical treatment in time, so as not to miss the condition.