Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Personal Health Care Examination for Early Years

In a man’s life, there will come a time when he has totake a trip down check-up lane for his annual medicalexamination. Although not everyone is taking part, itis quite important to have your doctor see how yourhealth is doing. Personal health care examination candecrease a person’s chances of getting sick oracquiring a disease because of early diagnosis. Therewould be other reasons why people would be advised orwould want to go to the physician:

1. Assessment of any risk that can contribute tofuture medical problems. Sometimes people can be sohardheaded and would not go to the doctor because theywould argue about not feeling anything. Bad news is,the moment an illness strike, it may be because it’sgetting serious. Earlier diagnosis equates earliertreatment.

2. Screen for present diseases. If you are alreadyexperiencing something painful or odd going in yourbody, it is a must to let the doctor see itimmediately no matter how little the pain is or howsmall the inconvenience is contributing to your body.Visiting your doctor will give you more chances ofasking the how’s and why’s of your present conditionand appropriate intervention to prevent further damageto your system.

3. Encourage the practice of healthy lifestyles. Witha very busy world, it will be too much for the workingpopulation to give a certain piece of their time topractice healthy living. Most of the time, the workingcommunity indulge themselves on work which produces alot of stress. Having a routine check to their doctorcan prescribe natural ways to have a lifestyle that’shealthy.

For ages which belong to the early years, ages 18-40,it is of dire importance to build a professionalrelationship with their physician. These early yearsare the time where people are very active in any kindof activity. Sadly, these are also the years thatpeople tend to give into a lot of temptations andabuse their healthy body mainly because they’re youngand strong.

Unfortunately, even if people feel like there’snothing wrong with their body, there are certaindiseases that needs time to become dangerous to thebody. Potential problems may arise over time that iswhy, an early check-up is better than taking up tonsof medication because it’s too late and the diseasehas already worsen. Prevention is better than cure.

For ages 18 ranging to 40, there are the examinationsinvolving your personal health.

a. Blood Pressure – this determines the pressure ofthe blood that goes through the vessels of a humanbody. The ideal checking of blood pressure is everytwo years. This is intended for the normal, healthybody. But if you have already been diagnosed with adisease especially regarding heart problems, then itis ideal to let your blood pressure checked at leasttwice a week.

b. Breast Examination for Women – since breast canceris one of the leading causes of death in women, breastexamination is required once females reach the age of18. Breast examination can be done alone provided withproper instructions. This can effectively detect anysigns of mass that lies beneath a woman’s breast.

c. Cholesterol screening – this is very much intendedfor those who love eating fatty foods. Increasedcholesterol can be the cause of many diseases and oneof which is heart attack.

Personal health care should be done religiously inorder to live a healthy life.

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