 [ Symptoms ] my son is 16 and he is convinces that cabohydrates from grains will damage his joint health is this true [ Disease ] i suspect early iron deficiency anemia i recommend you to do serum iron total iron binding capacity tibc and serum ferritinhigh levels of wbcs due to tonsillitis take the suitable antibioticshigh platelets have no explanation in the mean time but doing a follow up cbc afterva month would be useful