How often have you been in this situation? You’re pretty sure that you locked your door and carry on with your work. But wait, did you actually lock your door though? So, you run quickly to check it. Just to make sure. 

Don’t we all make so much effort to protect our possession? After all, they are precious, right?

But how often do you make an effort to protect your biggest possession? 

Your health!!!

Your health is important and does so much for you. That’s why a whole body check-up is very necessary. A whole-body check-up lets you know about the overall status of your health by diagnosing the function of your various body parts.

Lucky for you, a whole body checkup comes at an affordable price and can really be a great move to monitor your health.

Do you need a whole body checkup?

With a tendency to avoid your health in this busy lifestyle and stamina in your body, a whole-body checkup might not seem necessary. But you’d be surprised to know that many health issues don’t come with a warning and can change your life in a matter of seconds. 

So a health checkup can actually be the savior. Performing a whole body checkup depends upon your age, medical history, your family’s history of any health condition, and your lifestyle.

Everyone, from children to the elderly, should have a full-body examination at least once a year to learn about their health and detect any abnormalities or disorders. It can also warn you about bad habits and encourage you to live a healthier lifestyle.

Generally, a whole-body checkup is referred :

• Once every 2- 3 years for someone who is healthy and under the age of 35 years
• The same goes out for anyone between 35 to 45 years in healthy condition with no medical problems
• Once a year for someone above 50

If you’re someone with chronic illness such as heart condition, cancer, or diabetes, a regular health checkup is highly advisable.

Why do you need to get a regular health checkup done?

But hey!! Isn’t it a waste of time and money if nothing appears in your body? 

Not really, the main objective of checkups is to detect illness at its earliest form and prevent any chances for illness to develop in the first place. So performing a health checkup does you more favor.

Here’s why you should do a regular health checkup :

• Detect any condition in your body at its earliest stage. Thus, facilitating early treatment and prevention.
• Helps avoid unnecessary expenses in the future by detecting and preventing any illness progression with the proper treatment.
• Appropriate while traveling abroad as many countries make it a mandatory requirement. This is quite evident during these times with Covid-19.
• Helps in the containment of any infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and many more.
• Increases the overall lifespan by ensuring a healthy body.
• Adopt a healthy lifestyle by incorporating changes as prescribed as per results.

Which tests are included in the whole body checkup package?

A full body checkup contains a large number of tests. Some of the major tests include:

1. Complete Body Count(CBC)

A CBC test counts the cells contained in your blood: White Blood Cells(WBCs), Red Blood Cells(RBCs), Hemoglobin, Hematocrit, Mean corpuscular volume (MCV), and platelets. 

This test is useful in detecting anemia, leukemia, infection and to know whether any medications, health conditions, and treatments like chemotherapy are affecting your health. 

2. Lipid Profile

A lipid profile is a blood test that evaluates the amount of cholesterol and fats, mainly known as triglycerides in the blood. It consists of the High-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) test, Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) test, and LDL/HDL Ratio Triglycerides.

It lets you know what exactly is going on in your blood.

3. Kidney Function Test

It is done to diagnose any diseases related to the kidney. It includes 2 types of tests: Albumin to Creatinine Ratio (ACR) and Glomerular Filtration Ratio (GFR).

4. Liver Function Test 

Also known as a hepatic panel, this is a group of blood tests used to know about the condition of the liver of individuals. It includes a test that evaluates the liver’s capacity for transportation of organic anion and metabolization of various medications. 

It also consists of serum enzyme tests that can diagnose any abrasion to hepatocytes.

5. Urine Test 

This includes tests performed on the patient’s urine to detect any disease or condition. It is useful for diagnosing kidney disease, liver disease, or chronic diseases like diabetes and cancer.

8. Thyroid Test 

These are series of blood tests that measure the operation of the thyroid gland. It includes:

TSH

It calculates the level of thyroid-stimulating hormone in your blood and useful for detecting subclinical hypothyroidism.

T3

It measures the levels of the hormone triiodothyronine. It may be recommended if a patient shows any symptoms of an overactive thyroid gland.

T4

Also known by the name thyroxine test, this test aid in metabolism and growth.

9. Ultrasound 

It is an imaging procedure that uses high-frequency sound waves to produce images of organs in your body. It is used for several reasons such as for diagnosing gallbladder diseases, evaluating for a breast lump, and many more.

10. X-ray

X-ray creates images of the body without having to make an incision. It helps detect any fractures or deficiencies in the body.

What determines the whole body checkup price in Nepal?

Before diving deep into the factors that determine these packages, it is important to acknowledge that these schemes might vary from one health institution to another and the overall environment might affect the prices such as health policies and guidelines, inflation, ease of availability of equipment, and medications.

Some of the factors affecting health checkup price include:

1. Health personnel involved and their expertise
2. Qualitative equipment used 
3. Quality of chemical reagents and other material used 
4. Storage system and temperature maintenance 

It is also to be noted that a lot of these packages are customizable serving the personal health status of individuals and resulting in differences in price ranges from one another.

In crystal Diagnostic we have several packages coming which you can check on our social media.

What do you need to expect in a whole-body checkup?

The first thing to consider is to stay calm as these procedures are safe and performed under complete supervision. A whole-body checkup will begin these processes:

• Monitoring blood pressure and other essential signs
• Verification of pre-existing health conditions, health history, allergies, medications, and lifestyle in general.
• Inquiry about surgery performed (if any).

It is followed up by health professionals guiding you through every test and providing certain instructions.

How do you prepare yourself for a regular whole body checkup?

You can follow these steps to prepare yourself for a body checkup:

• Take proper sleep prior to the day of the checkup.
• Avoid eating or drinking anything for at least 8-10 hours before a blood test.
• Stay away from alcohol as it can affect your test results.
• Females should avoid full body checkups 7 days before or after the menstrual period. This can affect the test readings in the context of urine tests as the menstrual blood might alter the test results.
• Pregnant women are required to inform their health condition professionals and seek their consultation.

Where can I do a Whole-body check-up in Nepal?

While the process of a whole-body checkup might come across as too much at glance, this checkup will do you wonders and can actually save your life all at an affordable price.

Crystal Diagnostic Lab is a government-certified “A” Grade lab committed to providing quality health services and offers whole body checkups at an affordable price in Nepal. So take a step towards your health by booking yourself a whole body checkup. 

Being an “A” Grade lab in Nepal, we provide the best lab services there is in the whole of Nepal and assure you that each test is carried out carefully by a team of professionals.

In an attempt to cater to the health needs of large demographics, Crystal Diagnostic Lab has come up with health checkup packages like Healthy Hajur Buwa package,  Healthy Hajur Ama package, and women health packages. These packages are designed to cater to the needs based on age, gender for all-around and efficient whole body checkups.

You can follow us on Social Media to know about various health packages that we bring from time to time for the benefit of your healthy living.

We also offer a Home-Collection service so that you do not have to travel and get your tests to result from ease of your home. So feel free to contact us at 9802301020 to book your home collection appointment booked.

Easily Conduct your Lab Test At Home

‘’You know when we were your age…’’. 

A common speech we get to hear everywhere from our elders. Back in our days, we’ve got ourselves in for a lecture session from our parents/guardians about how careless we were with our health.

Let’s be honest that they were not wrong.

Thanks to that pretty tight schedule and tedious process for minor health check-ups and lab tests, you can’t help but get annoyed.

Why worry? 

Labs are just a call away. Modern-day technology has managed to impact positive changes in Pathology and diagnostics services as well. You can now perform lab tests at home easily and at your convenience. Here are a few lists of lab tests that you can easily perform on your own home and save your time.

1.Perform Blood Test at home

OK! Let’s be real. We all secretly hate blood tests as it only heightens the fear of our inner child. The anticipation that builds when we wait for our turn and the anxiety that creeps in our minds is horrifying. 

When you finally get your blood samples tested. YIKES!!!

This is why performing a blood test at home can be your last resort. Keep in mind that you would still need a professional medical expert and doctors to assess your results but performing them is really not that hard. 

Most of the time the Lab center will provide you with blood testing kits with instructions on it. Before conducting a test make sure that you are well hydrated. Read the instructions carefully so that you are well aware of the procedure.

Prior to performing the test, dive your non-dominant hand under warm water for around two minutestwo2  minutes. Then choose your ring or pinkie finger and wipe it using alcohol-based cloth available in the toolkit and aim for the center of the finger with a lancet.

Squeeze your finger slowly to fill the blood in the container and apply a band-aid on the finger and send it to the lab center. In certain cases, the lab will send the medical professionals to conduct the tests for you. So you don’t worry about the process to perform the test.

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2.Perform Urine Lab tests at home

Urine tests are one of the widely performed tests to diagnose other health issues. Luckily, it also happens to be one of the easiest tests to perform at home as it only requires collecting urine samples as per the instructions from your side.

Urine tests are done to track Urinary Tract Infections, Sexually Transmitted Infections such as chlamydia in men, or for performing ACR tests. Urine tests might range from 24-hour urine collection to mid-stream urine and many more.

Done for tracing any kidney problem, 24-hour urine collection requires patients to store urine for full 24-hours on a cool surrounding. In an attempt to minimize the risk of a sample being contaminated from bacteria, a mid-stream urine sample involves collecting not first or last but the middle part of urine that comes out.

Urine collection basically requires you to collect urine samples in provided container keeping in mind all hygiene and sanitation aspects. And finally sending them to the lab center for diagnosis.

3. Nasal swab collection for Covid-19 Lab test at home

Well, Well 

This list wouldn’t be complete without a home swab collection procedure for Covid-19 testing. With the chaos that it has caused over the period of time, it is definitely a good idea to conduct a swab collection at your home.

Conducting swab collection at home might actually be a good option as you would minimize the possibility of infecting others in case you happen to be positive for Covid-19.

Start off by applying a 60% alcohol-based sanitizer all over your hand. Take off the swab from the package while being extremely cautious of the absorbent tips. Slide the absorbent tip of the swab into your nostrils in a slow circular motion and repeat the process on the other nostrils. Put the swab in the sterile tube and carefully seal it in the bag and hand it over to the medical personnel.

Sounds terrifying?

There’s no need to be worried. Our professional swab collectors will operate the procedure as swiftly as possible,  without even letting you know what actually happened.

4. Perform Vitamin D Lab Test at home.

Not so surprisingly, many people across the world are getting Vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D is vital for your immune system. The group vulnerable to Vitamin D deficiency includes senior class citizens, pregnant women, people with autoimmune conditions, and people with gastrointestinal disorders.

Vitamin D levels are measured through blood work. Vitamin D tests work similarly to a blood test. The toolkit consists of gauze, alcohol pad, lancet, and a bag to tuck the sample in.

As that with a blood test, you take the blood sample with help of a finger prick and store it in the container. Then send the specimen to the lab for getting results.

Remember even if you do these tests at home, you would still need help from medical professionals and doctors to draw conclusions from your results. After all, they are credible people in their field and you wouldn’t want to commit the risk of hampering your health by not listening to them. Would you?

Wrapping Up:

These lab tests at home are super easy to conduct these days. Visiting the Diagnostics Center in Nepal is not safe either.  Conditions are getting worse every day as social distancing is quite necessary. Every field is adopting remote working mechanisms. 

Crystal Diagnostics is no exception. 

Lab tests at home would save you time and provide you with convenience. Our fully sanitized health professionals are taking every measure of safety ensuring you and your family are protected.

Crystal Diagnostics is a world-class pathology  ‘A’  grade lab approved by the government of Nepal which provides lab test services at your home. So, give these tests a try and make the most out of your valuable time.

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