Routine Health Screening
Routine health screening is the planned periodic investigation of a person’s health status with the hope of knowing how healthy or otherwise they may be.
Routine health screening could be a life saver as it is a way of detecting serious health challenge for early intervention and treatment.
It is said that health is wealth, and that true happiness lies in the bosom of a healthy person. Any believer of the above, will treasure the opportunity offered by modern medical science with all its fanciful gadgets and procedures to safeguard their happiness that is given by good health.
What should a Routine Health Screening Include?
Remember, the purpose of it is to detect the presence of any likely ill-health flames that are beginning to form so they may be extinguished way before it becomes a roaring fire.
Depending on a person’s age, for most adults (40+ years), a physician may recommend a screening schedule that may include urine and stool analysis, diabetes test, lipid profile, cholesterol, high-pressure screening, full blood count including regular physical exams.
Blood samples will be taken for several laboratory test. These could likely include a complete blood count and a complete metabolic panel. A blood plasma test done can indicate any issue that exist in a person’s kidneys, liver, blood chemistry and immune system. A person with a family history of peculiar health challenges like breast cancer and obesity may opt for more specific health screening tests as against a general (basic) routine health screening procedure.
Is it a worthy investment?
The idea of routine health screening is brilliant, but it doesn’t come cheap and depending on the part of the world, routine health screening may be deemed a luxury pursuit, reserved for those who have enough to cater for their daily health needs and have enough to spare. If it can be afforded, routine health screen is a worthy investment that gives assurance of good health and insures against potentially substantial medical bills and time associated with treatment once the condition has advanced. In the likely situation of any disease being captured during the routine health screening, it would be easier and less costly to treat. Like they say, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
The fact that it is routine means, after one submits to a it (and the results are positive) the period between the last screening and the next one is period for one to embrace a healthy lifestyle to promote good health. True, genetics play a role in a person experiencing certain diseases but it cannot be ignored that habits and environments play a great role in the occurrence of diseases. Eating well balanced diets, exercising regularly and resting sufficiently are crucial to the maintenance of a healthy mind and body. Among other things, they help to prevent conditions such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes which may lead to life-threatening conditions such as stroke or heart attack.
Without a shadow of doubt, routine health screening is the way to go because finding health challenges early, gives a big chance at defeating it before it takes grounds or it makes it easier to live with that health challenge if it cannot be cured.
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