When and why one should have master health check up?
Posted on: 22/May/2018 6:10:06 PM
It is possible to detect the diseases coming to harm you and thus, it is possible to protect a person’s good health. In this aspect, a master health check-up of the body would be of great help.
However, with the current trend of a hectic lifestyle, most of us do not have time for taking care of good physical health. Most members of the current generation seem to have a dominating opinion to have the treatment after being affected by any disease.
Thus, most people do not notice it until there are symptoms of the oncoming disease. This leads to instances of the disease worsening followed by the admission in the hospital, huge medical expenses and still with chances of no positive results.
It still may be true that everyone must have this master health check up.
The tests
Ear, eye, teeth, nose and throat tests, chest x-ray, ECG blood type, blood pressure, blood sugar level, cholesterol or fat content in the blood, level of urea and creatinine, ultra-sound test in the stomach, thyroid generation test, pancreas and kidney tests, are some of the basic tests which must be undertaken. The cost of the above tests may vary from one hospital to another.
Who all have to test?
Generally, it is preferable for individuals over 35 years of age to have a thorough medical check-up on an annual basis. Especially in individuals who have the heredity cases of high blood pressure, heart attack, blood cancer, and diabetes can preferably have the full medical check-up even before reaching 35 years of age.
Cigarette/tobacco smokers, alcoholic drinkers, obese people, those workers having no scope for any physical exercise/stretching in their workplace, the individuals who take regular steroid drugs can preferably take the full-scale medical check-up at least once a year.
The benefits
It is possible to detect any disease affecting the teeth, eyes, ears, nose, and throat much earlier.
The tests will help detect the possibilities of organs like the heart, kidney, liver, pancreas, breasts, womb (in the case of being women) likely to be affected by any disease.
Those who are in the very early stage of diabetes can become more cautious after these tests, take the right kind of diet and physical exercise and bring diabetes under better control.
Apart from this, early detection of more harmful diseases like cancer can be of immense help in curing the same.
