Preventive Health Check-up Packages

 

With advancements in medical science, diagnosing the risk factors of a disease at a latent stage is possible, allowing people to live life with quality. Preventive health checkup helps to prevent disease, narrowing morbidity and mortality in the future.

There are various quality health checkup packages such as full body checkups, master health checkups, complete health checkups, regular heart checkups,s and more.

Important Tests includes in Preventive Health Checkups:

Below are some important checkups, screenings, and tests, and their frequencies are customized based on age, sex, and family history.

Heart Status Indicators :

2D Echo, ECG, Chest X-ray, CT Calcium Scoring, Coronary Angiography

Diabetes Marker:

Blood Sugar (Fasting & PP)

Cancer Markers:

Pap Smear/TVS (For women above 40 yrs.), Sono-mammography (Ultra Sonography of Breast for women above 30 yrs.)/ PSA (for men above 45 yrs.)

Liver:

SGPT, SGOT, Serum Bilirubin

Kidney:

S. Creatinine, Blood Urea

Lipid Profile:

Cholesterol, HDL, LDL

Abdominal:

Ultrasound of Abdomen

And many other tests are also included in health check-ups.

Benefits of Preventive Health Checkups:

• Prevention is better than cure
• Helps early detection of diseases & possible to diagnose at an early stage
• Helps to know health score and heart status
• Cuts medical or treatment bill
• Save tax upto INR 5000/- under section 80 (D)

Preventive health checkups and corporate wellness

As per reports, nearly 42.5% of corporate employees suffer from lifestyle-related diseases. Corporate employees have to survive a competitive work atmosphere, building pressure on health and leading to lifestyle-related diseases.

An employee's health affects the organization's work; hence the concept of Corporate Health Checkups is catching up fast in our Indian corporate setup. A Standard executive wellness program helps to know potential health risk factors and diagnosis and eliminate the risk factors to promote the overall wellness of employees.

Employee wellness programs like an annual health check and pre-employment health checkup are geared to create a positive work environment along with satisfaction for the employee.

For an organization, the health and physical fitness of its employees is a crucial part of employment, which must not be ignored.

A healthy body breeds a happy life. Get preventive health checkups done to know the health risks if any. Timely investment in health screening is important to diagnose early risk factors for an illness.

We at Indus Health Plus, provide you with a quality medical service along with customized preventive health checkup packages to meet your needs.

Healthcare Tips To Prevent Ear, Nose, And Throat Infections

 

The rains and humid conditions during the monsoon season can cause common ENT infections. Follow these easy ways to prevent infections of the ear, nose and throat.

Washing your hands frequently is an important way to prevent infections of any kind.  Overall prevention can be in the form of avoiding exposure to communicable infections, and practicing good hygiene habits.

How to prevent infections of the ear

• Avoid smoking and also exposure to second hand cigarette smoke

• Identify your allergies and get treatment for them

• Do not remove earwax without a proper Q tip

Ways to prevent nose disorders or sinus infections

• Use saline nasal spray to ease nose blockage due to common cold

• Long term sinusitis is caused by allergies. Identify the causes behind your cold, and get treatment for these allergies

• Avoid flying in an airplane when you have a cold. If you cannot avoid it, use a decongestant nasal spray 30 minutes before the flight takes off

 

Prevent soreness because of throat infection

Sore throat or throat infection can be caused by acid reflux, sleep apnea or even cancer. 

• Boost your immunity by getting plenty of rest 

• Exercise everyday to strengthen your immune system

• Quit smoking and avoid passive smoking if you don’t smoke

• Avoid spending a long time outside if the air quality in the area is not good

 

Maintain the health of your ENT area with regular checkups

Your checkup will include inspection of your face, ears, nose, neck and throat. The screening tests of your ear, nose and throat are not painful. They will usually check for the functions of your nasal pathways, airway resistance and sense of smell to detect inflammation, sinusitis, etc. If any abnormality is detected, an otolaryngologist who focuses on the treatment of ears, nose, and throat can plan a cure for it.

 

Find the best full body checkup packages near you that includes screening for your ENT health.

Make Better Decision With Preventive Health Screening After Your 30s

 The lifestyle you lead - the food you consume, your physical activities, your stress level, how much you sleep, affect your health. You can know the current condition of your body’s health with preventive health screening or checkup. Your full body checkup reports the functioning of all your organs. Any abnormalities in your body are detected in your health checkup reports.

 

What happens to your body after your 30s?

• Metabolism starts slowing down
• Bone loss and reduction in muscle tone
• Hormonal changes
• Weight gain
• Mineral and vitamin deficiency
• Increased risks of lifestyle diseases

 

How to prepare yourself for your 30s?

Start focussing on your health needs. You should treat your health as an investment, it can save you a lot of out of pocket expenses later. Do the following to keep yourself in good health after your 30s:

• Proactive manage your health 
• Be regular with your complete body health checkup
• Follow your report to plan your lifestyle
• Change your diet and exercises to prevent health conditions that are reported
• Plan a preventive strategy for the diseases reported in your checkup

 

How does a full body preventive health checkup help you?

• Screen your body for medical conditions
• Detects your risks for lifestyle health conditions
• Helps you to plan your personalized lifestyle that works for your body
• Plan your disease prevention with your doctor

 

What is an ideal and healthy lifestyle?

• Eating foods that have a high nutritional value, and not just calories
• Limit alcohol consumption
• Quit smoking and tobacco
• Exercise for at least 30 minutes daily
• Sleep adequately and rest
• Follow methods of cutting out stress

 

Tests that should be included in your full body health checkup after your reach 30

• Yearly examination by a physician before and after your health checkup
• Lipid profile tests
• Thyroid screening
• Blood sugar test for diabetes 
• Mammogram and pap smear for women
• Prostate cancer for men
• Cancer screening
• Bone density
• Heart checkup

 

You must go for your complete body health checkup even if you think you are healthy. Most lifestyle health conditions like cancer and heart diseases do not show symptoms in the beginning stages. When they start showing signs, they are at a stage when they become incurable and treatment cost becomes high. Regular health screenings help in early detection thus making treatment easier and non-invasive. Find out the best health screening package for you, now.

This World Liver Day, Know The Facts About Liver Diseases

With the World Liver Day just around the corner, let’s get to know why or how we celebrate the world liver day, get to know a few liver diseases, diagnosis of liver diseases, and causes and symptoms of the liver diseases.

Apparently liver is the second largest and important organ of our body. If for any reason the liver cannot function normally, then it can harm our health. 

Stats and Facts of Liver Diseases:

According to the latest WHO data,

·         Deaths by liver diseases in India are 216,865 which are equal to 2.44% of the total number of deaths.

·         The age related death rate is 21.96 for every 100,000 of the population.

Liver disease causes:

Some important causes of liver diseases are:

Infections: from mainly the viruses and parasites. The most common types of liver infections are:

·         Hepatitis A

·         Hepatitis B

·         Hepatitis C

Transmission from infected person: in the form of sharing contaminated things of that infected person, transmission through body fluids, blood, semen, etc.

Alcohol: Alcohol is an important cause of the liver diseases. It’s over consumption can cause serious conditions like:

·         Fatty liver

·         Liver cirrhosis

·         Liver cancer

Symptoms of Liver diseases:

Some common symptoms of liver diseases are:

·         Yellowish appearance of skin and eyes (which is known as jaundice)

·         Swelling and pain in the abdomen

·         Swollen legs

·         Itchy skin

·         Tendency to bruise easily

·         Dark yellowish urine

·         Pale, bloody or dark colored stool

·         Fatigue

·         Nausea or vomiting

·         Loss of appetite

Diagnosis of Liver Diseases:

Various diagnosis tests are used for liver diseases. An important tests for detecting the liver diseases is Liver Function Tests

Prevention:

Liver diseases can be prevented by the following ways:

Vaccination: There are Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B vaccines for protecting the body against liver disorders.

Lifestyle changes: like avoiding alcohol, healthy and a balanced diet, taking only prescribed medicines.

Preventive health checkup:  As a routine, you should go for a Master health checkup regularly. An early detection can help in the appropriate treatment as well as a complete cure.

Remember … An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!

Know Your Health Status by Master Health Checkup

As quoted ‘Health is Wealth’ having a healthy body helps to live a better and happy life. A healthy body is achieved through lifestyle modifications, which includes nutritious diet, exercise and routine health checkups. 

This old adage “prevention is better than cure” is relevant in Urban India than ever before, with environmental factors like lifestyle, family history and stress playing adverse impact on the wellness of our body.

Master Health checkup help to unearth a latent disease, or prevent its manifestation by modifying the risk factors. The potential risks of predisposed silent killers like cardiac diseases, diabetes, hypertension, and others can be managed, if diagnosed early. With an increasing number of lifestyle related diseases, and out of pocket expenses, it is great initiative from healthcare sector to come up with this idea preventive health check-up packages at an affordable rate.

Essentials of Master health checkup packages:

Most of the times, medical health check-up are broad in their approach, and examines multiple organ systems simultaneously to ascertain, whether an individual is healthy or not. It must also be taken care to avoid unnecessary screening examinations. This master health check up packages must ensure a net benefit from screening in order to efficiently deliver preventive services.These routine health check-ups can be customized depending on the basis of:

1. At-risk groups
2. Age
3. Gender
4. Occupation
5. Vaccination review

And as mandatory these medical health check fulfills minimum quality assurance standards at a reasonable cost which covers full body checkup. Current guidelines have proposed preventive health check-up and early detection approach for various disease conditions in the Indian context, which are:

• Cardiovascular disease
• Hypertension
• Dyslipedemia
• Screening for Type 2 diabetes mellitus
• Treadmill stress test
• Screening for cancer
• Breast cancer with clinical breast examination
• Cervical cancer with pap smear
• Prostate cancer

So, what are you waiting for, take control of your health and life through regular health checkup as early detection allows diagnosis, management and cure is possible. When everything is taken care of, our overall wellness is enhanced, leading us to live better every day and pursue aspirations.