If someone's Hemoglobin (I think that's it) level is higher than their white blood cell count is that good or bad?

Decreased levels of hemoglobin, with or without an absolute decrease of red blood cells, leads to symptoms of anemia. Anemia has many different causes, although iron deficiency and its resultant iron deficiency anemia are the most common causes in the Western world. As absence of iron decreases heme synthesis, red blood cells in iron deficiency anemia are hypochromic (lacking the red hemoglobin pigment) and microcytic (smaller than normal). Other anemias are rarer. In hemolysis (accelerated breakdown of red blood cells), associated jaundice is caused by the hemoglobin metabolite bilirubin, and the circulating hemoglobin can cause renal failure.

Mutations in the globin chain are associated with the hemoglobinopathies, such as sickle-cell disease and thalassemia.
There is a group of genetic disorders, known as the porphyrias that are characterized by errors in metabolic pathways of heme synthesis. King George III of the United Kingdom was probably the most famous porphyria sufferer.

To a small extent, hemoglobin A slowly combines with glucose at a certain location in the molecule. The resulting molecule is often referred to as Hb A1c. As the concentration of glucose in the blood increases, the percentage of Hb A that turns into Hb A1c increases. In diabetics whose glucose usually runs high, the percent Hb A1c also runs high. Because of the slow rate of Hb A combination with glucose, the Hb A1c percentage is representative of glucose level in the blood averaged over a longer time (the half-life of red blood cells, which is typically 50-55 days).





So, lower is worse!


and here's teh source: Wiki On Hemoglobin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemoglobin)

I have Anemia! =/ But anyway, yeah, I think Frookie pretty much told you everything you needed to know.

Wikipedia knows all.

I have Anemia! =/ But anyway, yeah, I think Frookie pretty much told you everything you needed to know. You have anemia? that really sucks. I guess that means you cant really exercise.

aenima as in the tool CD or disiese, i dont feel like reading thru wat frookie said - fill me in

The more white blood cells the better.

lol, well, that's true too, till an extent, too many is bad though

lol, well, that's true too, till an extent, too many is bad thoughnot really.
aenima as in the tool CD or disiese, i dont feel like reading thru wat frookie said - fill me insickle-cell anemia is a sex chromosome related disorder, and is contracted through pure luck. Your red blood cells are shaped like sickles(crescent moon shaped). Because of their shape, they hold less hemoglobin, an Iron based conpound, as you know Iron turns red when mixed with oxygen(Rust). hemoglobin bonds to oxygen when the red blood cell passes through the lungs. With the red blood cells being much smaller, they carry less hemoglobin, and consequently less oxygen. Making it easier to run out of breath...etc.

I went off the top of my head so there might be some things not quite right with my description.

yes NaPaLm

too many is bad, but not in all cases

Diseases

Leukopenia is a disease symptom defined as a lower than normal number of white blood cells in the blood.
Leukocytosis refers to an increase in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
Leukemia and lymphoma are two types of cancer in which white blood cells multiply out of control.source: White Blood Cell Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_blood_cell)

Isn't hemoglobin the stuff the makes it red?

You have anemia? that really sucks. I guess that means you cant really exercise.
That, and the fact that I have asthma. Yeah, I'm not exactly very healthy. XD

Isn't hemoglobin the stuff the makes it red?
it was the little dimple in the red blood cell that let te cell carry oxygen and nutrients to organs.

That, and the fact that I have asthma. Yeah, I'm not exactly very healthy. XD
No wonder you failed at cheerleading...

If I have a low White Blood Cell count is low and High Hemoglobin level what would that mean.

no idea

No wonder you failed at cheerleading...
You mean when I passed out at practice? :blink:

Yeah, lol. Sorry, I put it a bit harsh as "failing".

Yeah...whatever. :closedeye

Actually, I wasn't even mad. So it's okay. =] I was just like "....huh?"

WHAT DO I KNOW ABOUT BLOOD?
its red and i suckit out of people so i can live.

um...no gussa, no, you're not a vampire

Maybe he is. Haha... :happy:

Blood related diseases belong in Useless crap?

If I have a low White Blood Cell count is low and High Hemoglobin level what would that mean.white blood cells have nothing to do with hemoglobin.