Abstract:Objective To study the change of interleukins and cellular immunity of children with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. Methods In this study, 73 children with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura in our hospital from April 2012 to October 2015 were selected as the observation group, 73 healthy children with the same age were selected as the control group. Then the serum interleukins, peripheral blood T lymphocyte subsets and B lymphocyte subsets were detected and compared between the control group and the observation group, the observation subgroups with different disease serverity. Results The serum IL-3 of the observation group was lower than that of the control group, while the serum IL-4, IL-18 and IL-21 were higher than those of the control group. The levels of peripheral blood T lymphocyte subsets and B lymphocyte subsets of the observation group were all obviously lower than those of the control group. The serum interleukins, peripheral blood T lymphocyte subsets and B lymphocyte subsets of the observation subgroups with different disease serverity had significant differences (P < 0.05). Conclusions The interleukins and cellular immunity of children with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura are in obviously abnormal state, and the influences of disease severity on the levels of those parameters are great too, so the parameters have high detection value for the disease.