Understand the Preparation and Examination When Medical Check Up

Medical check-up is a comprehensive health examination, which aims to ensure health conditions, anticipate health problems that can develop into diseases and prompt treatment if the results of the examination indicate a special condition or disease and disorders related to a person's physical condition. This health check is generally recommended for people who have certain indications, and the type of examination is adjusted to their needs, for example an examination from the company for employee health evaluation, sufferers of chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes that are not controlled, preparation for surgery, the elderly (elderly) especially who have many physical complaints, as well as special requirements such as insurance and screening tests for education and employment levels. Many people are still confused when they want to do a medical check-up, including the preparation and types of examinations to be performed. Here are the preparations you can do as well as an explanation of the medical check-up.

Preparatory Steps

Before coming to the clinic or hospital for a medical check-up, you can make preparations such as:

• Pay attention if you have ever experienced a complaint or an improper thing. For example, changes in menstrual cycles, changes in body shape, the presence of bumps, or changes in skin. Write down everything, then tell the doctor.
• Do not underestimate conditions such as dizziness, fatigue, and changing diet. This can be a sign that you are experiencing something related to health.
• If you experience difficulty sleeping, anxiety, depression, or trauma, also tell the doctor who will do a check-up.
• Recalling family health history. If a family member has an illness such as stroke, heart disease, diabetes, or cancer, be prepared to tell your doctor. The goal is that the doctor checks the level of risk for you.
• Re-check your health check schedule. Maybe you have time to do a re-examination for pap smears, mammograms, screening for other diseases or vaccinations.
• Also pay attention to medications that you are currently taking or if you are healing a disease. Tell the doctor to have a medical check-up later, the doctor already has complete data.
• If possible, find out about examinations to be carried out at a medical check-up, some checks may require you to fast for 8 to 12 hours before the examination is carried out, such as cholesterol and blood sugar checks.
• Write down all these things so that you do not forget to mention it when you have met with the doctor.
• Prepare various questions that you want to convey. Take notes so you don't forget.

Full Inspection

Basically, when you do a medical check-up, your doctor will undergo a health check from the standard to the more detailed. The examination can be aimed at the public, specifically for women, and specifically for men.

• General inspection

Standard tests carried out on men and women include blood pressure, body temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate and other standard checks. In adults, normal blood pressure is between 120/80. Through this examination you can find out whether your blood pressure is normal, high (hypertension), or low (hypotension). Normal human body temperature averaged 36.5-37.5 ° C, but some were slightly lower or higher, also affected by the activity and exposure to ambient temperature. The average normal heart rate in humans is worth 60-100. However, there are also humans whose heart rates are below 60 and are still in the normal stage. With a stethoscope, the doctor will check the heart rate as well as the condition of the lungs. The normal breathing rate for healthy adults is 16-20 breaths per minute. Although it can be influenced by activity or psychological atmosphere just before the examination, there is a possibility that you will experience interference in the lungs or heart if breathing is more than 20 times per minute. Examination during medical check-up also includes an examination of the condition of the body as a whole, vision, hearing, digestion, limbs and nerves. In addition, generally other standard checks will be carried out such as blood sugar levels, cholesterol levels, uric acid, and other blood tests.

• Additional examinations for women

In addition to standard examinations as above, in women there will be additional examinations namely pap smears and mammograms. A Pap smear examination includes a pelvic exam, so you can get an examination of the vulva, vagina and cervix. This examination will provide information about the presence of human papillomavirus (HPV) that causes cervical cancer. Meanwhile, a mammogram is a breast examination to detect breast cancer. The doctor will check whether there is a lump like a benign tumor or not in the breast. Armpit section was also examined, to determine the condition of lymph nodes in the area.

• Additional examinations for men

In men there is also a special additional examination, which is an examination around the area of ​​the genital organs namely the penis, testes, and prostate. The first is a physical examination of the penis, to estimate whether or not there is a risk of sexually transmitted diseases. Then, there is also a testicular examination, which is an examination of the physical condition of the testicles to detect testicular cancer early. Through this examination is also often done simultaneously with an examination of the condition of varicoceles and hernias that often arise in men. Especially for men, additional examinations including prostate examination, the doctor will insert a finger into the rectum to find out whether there is enlargement or abnormalities in the prostate or not.

Medical check-ups are often believed to need to be done routinely, but various research studies have found that this examination does not have sufficient effective benefits in finding health problems, often even leads to unnecessary examinations in people who are generally healthy, meaning they do not have physical complaints and have a healthy lifestyle. However, that does not mean you then abandon your health, still manage and maintain a healthy lifestyle, then consult with your doctor about the need for health checks that really need to be done so that medical check-ups are carried out effectively, according to your needs, and support your health condition.