Conversation: The conversation between human and AI assistant.
[|Human|] I suffered a very bad case of bronchitis for about 3 weeks, which included blood mixed mucus for over a week. I had a Physical that was already scheduled just as I was recovering in which a blood test came back with low blood platlets, I was sent to a hemotoligist, and began taking predisone. Within a few days I felt great because the predisone finished clearing my chest. However my platlets went from 48000 to 38000. I haven t had any of the signs of Itp (my diagnosis) and there were no other issues with the blood test. Could the bronchitis cause the low platlets
[|AI|]  Hello, Infections anywhere especially, a viral infection can cause low counts; no doubt about this and your bronchitis might be a viral one. However, there are a lot of causes of low platelets count, and after your bronchitis is over, the count should have gone up, so there must be other things in mind.ITP (Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura) can well be the cause of your low platelets and ITP most of the time do not produce any symptoms and is not very uncommon. Whatever could be the cause (if other things are ok and the patient is stable), I generally ask such patient to repeat the count frequently if not improving seeing hematologist again is very necessary. They may think about bone marrow examination then. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.