White Blood Cells

White blood cells are like having antibiotics during your chemotherapy treatment to fight infection. The doctor checks the number of white cells during your regular blood tests. If you need antibiotics you may be able to have tablets or capsules. But often, with chemotherapy related infections, you need to have antibiotics directly into the bloodstream. This treatment is often in most countries done in the hospital only by law.
In some circumstances, doctors prescribe antibiotics before you get an infection, to try to prevent this from happening. You may hear these called prophylacti…