{"id":1309,"date":"2017-06-26T07:05:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T07:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/data-interpretation\/fbc-2\/eosinophils\/"},"modified":"2023-01-24T11:25:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T11:25:25","slug":"eosinophils","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/data-interpretation\/fbc-2\/eosinophils\/","title":{"rendered":"Eosinophils"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-blue\">\n<h4>Background<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Eosinophilia is &gt; 0.44 x 10<sup>9<\/sup>\/L<\/li>\n<li>Causes\n<ul>\n<li>Asthma \/ allergic disorder<\/li>\n<li>Infections &#8211; parasitic, malaria, TB, fungal<\/li>\n<li>Medications &#8211; penicillin, allopurinol, amitriptyline, carbamazepine<\/li>\n<li>Smoking<\/li>\n<li>Connective tissue disorder &#8211; RA, PAN, Churg-Strauss<\/li>\n<li>Endocrine &#8211; Addison&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>Skin disease &#8211; Eczema, Psoriasis Dermatitis Herpetiformis, Erythema Multiforme<\/li>\n<li>Malignancy &#8211; Lymphoma, Leukaemia, Lung\/Stomach Ca<\/li>\n<li>Others &#8211; Endocarditis, Post-splenectomy, Irradiation, Loffler syndrome<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-box-blue\">\n<h4><strong>Assess<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>History: Medications, Travel, Atopy<\/li>\n<li>Investigate: ESR, CRP, IgE, ANA, CXR, stool OCP, serology for parasites depending on travel history<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-box-blue\">\n<h4><strong>Manage<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Refer to haematology\n<ul>\n<li>Eosinophils &gt; 1.5 persisting for 3 months without obvious cause<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Consider discussion with Infectious Diseases if travel history<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background Eosinophilia is &gt; 0.44 x 109\/L Causes Asthma \/ allergic disorder Infections &#8211; parasitic, malaria, TB, fungal Medications &#8211; penicillin, allopurinol, amitriptyline, carbamazepine Smoking Connective tissue disorder &#8211; RA, PAN, Churg-Strauss Endocrine &#8211; Addison&#8217;s Skin disease &#8211; Eczema, Psoriasis Dermatitis Herpetiformis, Erythema Multiforme Malignancy &#8211; Lymphoma, Leukaemia, Lung\/Stomach Ca Others &#8211; Endocarditis, Post-splenectomy, Irradiation, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/data-interpretation\/fbc-2\/eosinophils\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eosinophils<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1301,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1309","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1309\/revisions\/1877"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}