The physical examination itself will not reduce the probability of the physical examiner's disease, it is precisely because we prevent possible diseases in advance through the results of the physical examination, which will make the physical examination meaningful, and several sets of data are worth noting.
First, after the age of 40, if you can have a regular physical examination of the heart, the risk of heart disease can be reduced by 50%, and the probability of stroke will be greatly reduced.
Second, regular physical examination can reduce the incidence of diabetes by 35%~60%.
Third, only 30% of mainland people can now pass regular physical examinations to detect health problems early.
Because of this, especially for the elderly members of the family, health check-ups are extremely important for them.
Of course, the variety of physical examination packages launched on the market today seem to be comprehensive and friendly, and many people prefer those high-tech examination items, are the basic physical examination items really not important?
In fact, the so-called "physical examination is no small matter", the real meaning is that every physical examination indicator should not be underestimated, the more basic the indicator, the more can reflect the basic problem, want to take parents for physical examination, this problem should pay more attention.
So, which 5 items are essential to bring a parent physical examination? How can we help middle-aged and elderly people protect their health through physical examination?
The correct way to open the physical examination for middle-aged and elderly people
Nowadays, the physical examination projects on the market are really endless, but everyone's physical fitness is different, the same physical examination method, may not be able to help every middle-aged and elderly people to find problems early, so pay attention to the correct physical examination method, is the key to protecting health.
(1) Actively communicate with the examining physician
Especially in the case of physical discomfort, the physical examination must pay attention to the communication with the chief examiner, you know, the physical examination indicators are cold, but the chief examiner can develop a complete physical examination plan through the different situations of the physical examiner.
For example, the most common cough, chest tightness and other situations in middle-aged and elderly people, after the chief examiner understands the facts, he will definitely focus on arranging targeted physical examination items in terms of chest and abdominal examination, and the effect is also twice as effective with half the effort.
(2) Do not conceal past medical history
For many middle-aged and elderly people, the body has underlying diseases, even if there are slight signs of illness, on this basis, the significance of physical examination is greater, can find other hidden dangers of the body, can also monitor the health problems that have appeared.
For this reason, when communicating with the examining physician, it is important not to hide past medical history, which will become an important reference for the formulation of physical examination plans.
If you do not know how to communicate with the examining physician in depth, you can bring the past physical examination report with you, and the professional will also find the correct physical examination direction from the previous health report.
(3) Do not hide family medical history
The reason why this point should be listed separately is because many people often ignore the hidden dangers of family history in addition to paying attention to past medical history, in addition, many people do not know how to distinguish whether their family has a medical history.
The best way is to know the health status of relatives in advance, if you encounter multiple people who have suffered from the same disease, this is very noteworthy, and clarify this matter to the examining doctor during the physical examination, and the development of the physical examination program will be more targeted.
(4) Psychological construction in advance for private projects
In many examinations, the physical examiner does need to expose the private parts of the body, such as common vaginal examination, digital examination, etc., especially for conservative middle-aged and elderly people, it is initially difficult to accept.
Before the physical examination begins, the family or the physical examiner himself should have a general understanding of the physical examination items, and raise questions in time for the unfamiliar physical examination items, so that they can give themselves enough time to do a good job of psychological construction, you know, often these private physical examination items can expose health risks, blind escape is not advisable.
5 essential medical check-up items
Many people will fall into a misunderstanding in the choice of physical examination items, that is, CT is the best, and routine examinations are not enough to reflect the deep health of the body, but it is not.
Especially for middle-aged and elderly people, regardless of whether they understand their own health or not, the following 5 personal examination items must not be missed, these items are combined, the chief examiner can have a comprehensive understanding of the physical condition of the physical examiner.
(1) Three major routines: blood routine, urine routine, and stool routine
Blood and urine are the three most common substances in the body, which are basic indicators that reflect the internal environment of the body.
As long as the body is in a relatively healthy state, these three conventional indicators will be in a balanced and normal range, on the contrary, unbalanced data indicators can best reflect the problem.
First, let's look at the blood routine, if the body of the physical examiner is in a state of chronic inflammation, acute infection, and nutritional poverty, the data indicators will be reflected in different categories.
In general, if worm eggs are found in the stool routine, it can indirectly reflect digestive system problems, especially for physical examiners who have been undergoing anticoagulant and antithrombotic symptomatic treatment for many years, monitoring intestinal health through stool routine is a reliable and convenient way.
The most important thing is urinalysis, blood routine can indeed reflect many problems in the body's internal environment, but urine routine can reflect problems can complement blood routine.
Once red blood cells, white blood cells, casts, crystal salts, or urine traits appear in the urine routine, the urinary system and other diseases will also be detected in time.
(2) Three high examinations: blood pressure, blood lipids, blood sugar
Today's people, hidden health problems often start from the three highs, and it is precisely the three highs examination that can directly reflect the health of the body in this regard.
Don't think that these three physical examination indicators can't explain anything, once the abnormality occurs through rigorous examination, it can be directly determined that the physical examiner is very likely to have three diseases, and the more middle-aged and elderly people should pay attention to these problems.
It is also important to remind everyone that as long as these three indicators are at an abnormal critical value, they must immediately attract attention, because the tendency of the three high indicators is abnormal and often takes a period of time to appear.
(3) ECG
I hope you will make one thing clear here, that is, when it comes to cardiac examinations, electrocardiograms are always irreplaceable.
Today, when color ultrasound examination is very common, many people think that cardiac ultrasound can completely replace electrocardiogram, or people who have done coronary CTA or cardiogram can also ignore the results of electrocardiogram.
In fact, the electrocardiogram can first reflect whether there is a problem with the cardiac conduction system, in fact, after the abnormality of the heart blood vessels and structure, it will also cause damage to the cardiac electrical conduction system, and the electrocardiogram can also be displayed.
Under normal circumstances, heart problems will always affect each other, and middle-aged and elderly people are precisely the people with a high incidence of heart disease, and even many people do not know that there are hidden health risks in their cardiovascular diseases without physical examination.
Among all the special cardiac examinations, electrocardiogram is the most convenient and cheap, combined with the auscultation of the examining doctor and cardiac ultrasound and other examinations, heart health problems can be effectively controlled.
(4) Gastroscopy, colonoscopy
The gold standard for determining gastrointestinal diseases and health risks can only be gastroscopy and colonoscopy, because these two examinations can clearly and intuitively see the true state of the gastrointestinal tract, and most patients with serious gastrointestinal diseases will only have symptoms when they are unable to return.
Based on the above characteristics, coupled with the gastrointestinal tract is one of the most important living systems of the human body, the most intuitive gastroscopy and colonoscopy are necessary.
Here I also want to remind you that middle-aged and elderly people want to do this physical examination, the sooner the better, gastroscopy, colonoscopy is actually not low for the basic requirements of the human body, for example, the heart has underlying diseases of the physical examiner, do gastroscopy, colonoscopy risk will be very large, but these two examinations are very necessary.
Therefore, health check-ups are really urgent, and it is really too late to think about the importance of protecting your health until there are problems in all aspects of your body.
(5) Three organ function tests: liver function, lung function, kidney function
Under normal circumstances, the functional examination of these three organs is nothing more than color ultrasound, blood, radiation, and all are the most basic examinations, if these health indicators are not abnormal, continue to pay attention to health indicators can be, once abnormal, and then carry out targeted examination.
From the perspective of these 5 essential physical examination items, the human internal environment and important organs are included, and the chief examiner can have a preliminary and clear understanding of the overall health level of the physical examiner through these indicators, which can not be ignored.
More targeted check-up programs
In addition to the basic and important physical examination items mentioned earlier, targeted physical examination items are still necessary if the examiner has in-depth communication with the examining physician.
The first item: bone density examination, which can reflect the bone health of middle-aged and elderly people, is especially suitable for physical examiners who often drink alcohol and drink strong tea.
The second item: alpha-fetoprotein test, for the diagnosis, detection of early primary liver cancer accuracy rate of up to 80-90%, and middle-aged and elderly people are the risk group of primary liver cancer, especially family members with severe liver disease, it is best to monitor once a year or half a year.
The third item: fundus examination, this examination can directly reflect the degree of arteriosclerosis of the whole body arteries and cerebral arteries, combined with other examination items, if the physical examiner has high blood pressure, diabetes and other health risks, it is more necessary to conduct regular fundus examination.
The fourth item: gynecological special examination, for many middle-aged and elderly female physical examiners, it seems that after menopause, gynecological health risks are greatly reduced, but in fact, it is not, especially in the past breast hyperplasia, nodules, uterine health risks of the physical examination, should do a relevant health examination every year.
The fifth item: uric acid detection, this examination is more focused on men and purine substances excessive intake of physical examination, after all, the health problem of high uric acid has almost been the same as the "three high problems", causing great trouble to the healthy life of middle-aged and elderly people.
What else to pay attention to in the physical examination of middle-aged and elderly people
In order to make the physical examination results more accurately reflect the health of the physical examiners, middle-aged and elderly physical examiners also need to pay attention to some targeted questions, so that they can maximize the benefits of the physical examination.
First of all, the time of fasting blood collection should not be too late, especially not after 9 o'clock, otherwise, the body will have endocrine stress due to hunger, fatigue and other reasons, especially the blood sugar indicators will be inaccurate.
Secondly, before the physical examination can not rashly stop the usual medication, middle-aged and elderly physical examiners should be clear, the significance of the physical examination is to detect the body's index level in the daily state, even if you are taking medicine regularly, the indicators are normal can show that there is no problem with the current lifestyle.
In addition, for each physical examination designed by the chief examiner in advance, middle-aged and elderly physical examiners should not ignore it, or refuse the examination without the knowledge of the chief examiner, with the previous understanding, everyone will naturally understand that even a dispensable basic examination item may reflect deeper health problems.
Finally, the use of physical examination to control health, once or twice is often of little significance, for middle-aged and elderly people, in addition to known diseases, for high-risk health indicators, can be monitored every 3 months, routine physical examination can be carried out every six months or a year, each physical examination results determine the frequency of physical examination after that.
epilogue
In the current social environment with such great competitive pressure, many middle-aged and elderly people are still in the struggle stage, or the pillars of the family, and their health status is even more important for a family.
You know, entering the stage of middle and old age, the physical condition is often also an eventful stage, many physical examiners are often prone to avoid medical treatment, this, children should urge parents to timely physical examination.
As mentioned at the beginning, physical examination is not a way to solve health problems, and it is very important to detect problems early and prevent and solve problems through physical examination, which will determine the quality of life of middle-aged and elderly people in the second half of their lives!