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These drugs lower the white blood cell count to a greater degree than the counts of other blood cells â red blood cells and platelets â although these are commonly affected, too. Fortunately, the effect of these drugs on the white blood cell count is usually both predictable and short-lived. The white cell count generally falls below the normal range about seven to ten days after a chemotherapy treatment and recovers within about a week after that.
When you feed your immune system, you improve its fighting power. Your immune system and white blood cells work together to fight infections. White blood cells are produced in our bone marrow. A normal white blood cell count is somewhere in the area of 5,000 to 10,000 white blood cells per microliter of blood.