Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Denver Mods 7/26/84) 6/24/83; site drutx.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!drutx!jca From: jca@drutx.UUCP (ArnsonJC) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Low Platelets Message-ID: <357@drutx.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 10:55:57 EST Article-I.D.: drutx.357 Posted: Thu Oct 24 10:55:57 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Nov-85 01:36:36 EST References: <181@nvuxg.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 22 Decreased production of platelets in a normally healthy adult is often due to toxic agents, such as certain antibiotics, most notably penicillin, chloramphenicol, and tetracyclines. Other common ones, but less frequent are streptomycin, sulfonamides, and the list goes on -- insecticides: DDT and parathion; misc: hair dyes, carbon tet., radiation, bismuth. These are usually associated with bone marrow abnormalitites caused by the toxic agents. Immune mechanisms and consumption of platelets are very often caused by various diseases. The list here is quite long, and some of the diseases are quite exotic. A somewhat readable book is @u(Hematology) edited by William Beck. Read the chapter on platelet disorders. -- jill c. arnson ihnp4!drutx!jca AT&A IS, Denver (303)538-4800 "May your eyries receive you at your journeys end." Tolkien