Hi, all. My platelets go up because of a genetic mutation to a cell line in the bone marrow.
Also red cells go up. This is called Polycythemia. It has been reclassified by World Health Organization as cancer, even though the cells are not malignant. So eating fish or regulating smoking would not probably help.
I used to be a light smoker 28 years ago, but that was long long before the MPN mutation.
Eddie, I have found I cannot eat fish, alas, as I would like to eat it, and used to eat it.
I grew up eating salmon 3 times a week in Seattle. But present day fish I don't tolerate, probably because I have porphyria and react to the high mercury content in present-day fish. I can tell from beginning symptoms a few hours after ingesting fish that something is not right--usually spasticity, pain in muscles. It's a subtle thing as I can get spasticity from other things as well.
300 platelet score is considered normal, I believe, Eddie. I forget the range but I'm pretty sure it goes up to 375 as normal high.
Lynn, there are some drugs to increase platelets in those who have Myelofibrosis, another manifestation of Myeloproliferative disorder. I have no idea if you have that or why your platelets are low, but a CBC from a hematologist might give some clues!