White Blood Cell Count

My name is Tina and my mom has CLL. She recently was on antibiotics for something else and we were wondering if this could have elevated her white blood count? I hope someone would know about this. Also, with CLL, I read where fruit and vegetables are a NO-NO? This surprised us. Can anyone help?

antibioticss will not raise the WBC but an infection will. Why was she taking them? Many cancer patients become neutropenic with their chemotherapy. This makes it difficult to fight infections. If neutrophil counts drop to near or below 1000, patients should be on a neutropenic diet and should be in close touch with their hematologists. Following are examples of foods that must be avoided when on a neutropenic diet:

Raw nuts, vegetables, and salads
Apples, peaches, grapes, plums, nectarines, kiwi, strawberries, and other uncooked thin-skinned fruits
Self-serve buffets, salad bars, and deli foods
Cheeses such as feta, brie, camembert, blue, etc.
Raw or rare meats, fish, and poultry
Commercially prepared potato or macaroni salad
Raw, un-pasteurized milk and eggnog or milkshakes made with raw eggs
Bakery breads, muffins, cakes donuts, and cream or custard filled cakes

Oh, thank you for writing me back! My mom was on antibiotics for Immacular degenerative disease. She is not on chemotherapy yet for CLL. We were just hoping with a sensible diet the CLL could be slowed down! Again, I thank you for your time and response!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tina

she should be able to eat anything as long as she is not neutropenic. The purpose of the neutropenic diet is to avoid bacteria. It is unlikely that any diet would effect the CLL.

Thank you for your time...it is appreciated!