Kaboutjie SA Mommy Blogs by Lynne Huysamen
If you are young and at the peak of your youth, you might not consider getting a yearly checkup as your priority. This can easily get relegated even lower on your list of essentials. However, whether you are young or old, getting a health checkup isn’t something that you should brush off as irrelevant. In fact, health checks should be treated with paramount importance. Learn more about why by reading on:
- Regular health tests are essential in finding problems before they even start.
Going for regular health tests is actually a preemptive measure for you to avoid having any potentially serious problems. The key to fighting serious illnesses is in the early detection of the same, and this can only be achieved through your regular health checks. When potential problems are found early, you are allowing yourself the opportunity to have higher chances for treatment and cure. With this, your lifespan can also potentially increase.
- Regular health tests show your doctor the current status of your health.
Not all health tests have bad results. If you are lucky enough, your health tests can also show that your overall condition is A-okay. Whether good or bad, it is only through your health tests that doctors can determine how to best manage your health. When the results are okay, you have a better opportunity as well to maintain your current health status, protecting the health of your kids and entire family, and discussing possible options with your doctor as to how best to keep the same based on your age and lifestyle.
- Regular health tests allow you to go for the appropriate treatment plans for your health concerns.
Many health problems tend to worsen and reach an unmanageable state, simply because the wrong treatment was given. For example, on the outset, you might think that you are only going through minor stomach problems. Hence, you are already managing the same with medicines. However, after a health check, it is found that this recurring stomach problem is a bigger problem on the inside that shouldn’t have been aggravated by the medicines that you mistakenly took. As unfavorable as this situation may seem, occurrences like this actually do happen quite a lot. You want to be sure that the same doesn’t happen to you as well.
- Regular health tests limit the risk of complications of any of your existing conditions.
Pneumonia is something that can be cured; however, if left untreated, it can lead to severe complications. The same is true for diabetes, heart problems, and even cancer. The aforementioned are some of the most common health issues that are faced by individuals worldwide. With the advancement of medical screening measures and technologies in the laboratory, however, these health issues can no longer be considered as death sentences.
When you are diagnosed with any disease, one of the most critical steps that you should do is in complying religiously with your health check-ups. Doctors need to monitor your status as to whether or not the medicines and treatment plan they are giving you are managing your condition well, or if you aren’t responding correctly, hence your need to go for another treatment option instead. It is only through health checks that your doctors have a means of ascertaining any risk of complications.
- Regular health checks can improve the overall status of health in your community as well.
In places where health monitoring is inadequate, it is here that you will see people die of epidemics that could’ve been curable. For example, there are many towns in the world where communities die of dengue, the flu, pneumonia, and other infectious diseases. However, do remember that these diseases and health issues are easily curable, could they have been detected early.
Yes, dengue is fatal. However, the same can quickly be found through a blood test if your platelets are low. The risk of bacterial infections is also alleviated through simple antibiotics. However, because no regular health tests are done in most impoverished communities, simple health issues become widespread epidemics, which shouldn’t have been the case. It is through regular health checks that you can improve the health of your workplace, family, and community as a whole.
- Regular health checks allow you to avoid expensive medical costs later on.
Many of you might have the false notion that regular health checks will cost a considerable chunk out of your budget. However, what you don’t realize is that this expense is already included in your insurance if you have one. If it isn’t, you should think of this health expense as an investment for your health in the future. Bear in mind that these health checks serve as proactive measures toward preventing any severe health concerns. In this manner, you can save more in the future, as you can potentially avoid all the costly medical expenses that you will have to incur later on simply because you have neglected taking good care of your health.
- Regular health checks open you up to the updates in healthcare and technology.
The only way for you to be updated with the latest technologies in healthcare is when you see a doctor. There may be tests that you have previously known of in the past, which are already regarded as obsolete as of the present. There may also be the presence of new tests that are more comprehensive, in such a way that a single test can already detect numerous health concerns. This update on new medical information can work to your advantage, not to mention that the overall health check process is already made more manageable for you. With this, you will not have any excuse anymore as to why you shouldn’t go for one.
Conclusion
Many years back, it was the common mistaken belief that you would only need to see your doctor when you are sick, old, or dying. Today, this should no longer be the case. Inasmuch as you take proactive measures in your career and family life, the same should also hold true for your health. Remember that when you are without good health, it is impossible for you to achieve anything that you plan on attaining throughout your lifetime.
