Monocytes are increased in the body.

Monocytes are specific white blood cells that perform the protective function of the body, they constitute 3 to 11 percent of the total number of white blood cells in our body. They are the first to respond aggression to the introduction of a foreign agent. If monocytes are elevated - this is called monocytosis. And if lowered - a monk. The decrease can be caused by various causes: pyogenic infection, childbirth, shock state after taking a glucocorticoid.

Both monocytosis and monochrome suggest that the body is unwell and requires medical manipulation. Monocytes are increased in diseases such as: infectious mononucleosis, tuberculosis, also in viral diseases, like rubella, parotitis and severe disease sepsis. Another monocytosis is typical for malignant diseases of the lymphatic system, for example, leukemia.

Thus, if monocytes are increased in an adult, this is often a sign of the above diseases. It is not so easy to treat these diseases, because fighting them requires a lot of time, medicines, patience and financial expenses. And such diseases as leukemia do not guarantee a 100% recovery at all. Therefore, monocytosis should be taken very seriously and in no case should it not be ignored. But sometimes the increase of monocytes is insignificant, in such cases the organism can itself cope with this violation. For example, with tuberculosis. The World Health Organization pays large sums of money to many countries to fight this disease, so this level of its spread has significantly decreased, which is a great achievement in this field of medicine.

Also the defenders of our body are other lymphocytes, which are divided into T-lymphocytes, B-lymphocytes and NK. They are all a specific defense of the body. T-lymphocytes are also divided into two groups: T-helpers and T-suppressors. Each species performs its specific function. B-lymphocytes are responsible for humoral immunity, that is, they produce substances that are carried along the blood stream and react with a foreign agent and destroy these agents. The increase in lymphocytes in medicine is called lymphocytosis. Lymphocytes and monocytes are increased in diseases such as sepsis, malignant tumors and infectious diseases.

In viral diseases, rubella and infectious mononucleosis, which often occurs in childhood, in laboratory tests will be monocytes increased, which is a pathognomonic sign of these diseases. What necessarily pay attention to pediatricians. Analyzes where an increase or decrease in monocytes, lymphocytes and leukocytes are detected is called a leukocyte formula. The normative values of these cells differ slightly among different groups of people (races, ethnic group, nation), but these differences are insignificant. But WHO (World Health Organization) at each world congresses correct these values and take certain values for the standard. Monocytes, for example, normally range from 6 to 8 percent, lymphocytes from 25 to 30 percent, all other percentages are leukocytes, basophils, eosinophils, neutrophils. If the doctor discovers in laboratory tests that monocytes are elevated, he necessarily differentiates between infectious diseases, malignant tumors (leukemia) and inflammatory processes.

Summarizing, we can say that the body is such a unique system that it can itself fight with foreign agents, but in case of severe diseases mentioned in this article, the body needs the intervention of a doctor. And here come to the aid of such markers as: monocytes, lymphocytes, which serve as faithful helpers of the body.