Benefits when women get regular checkups

When there are no unpleasant symptoms, even feeling healthy but having regular health checkups, including examination of the reproductive system - reproductive, with the sole purpose of preventing and detecting early disease is becoming an important part of the normal lifestyle of many women in modern society.

Benefits:

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- The opportunity to be informed by physicians about possible risk factors of age.

- Create conditions for physicians to understand the specificities of each woman's health and can easily monitor changes (compared with before and after).

- Help to detect potential health problems early, when treatment is most effective.

For maximum effectiveness for each routine visit, women should be prepared in advance for what to notify the physician because usually doctors do not have much time to receive each patient (perhaps only about 20 minutes).

The following information is always asked: the history of your own disease (the reasons for illness or surgery, having had an emergency, the years of a health incident, if possible, copies of the tests making, surgical records .) - family history of illness (heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes . that family members have contracted, age of disease and if possible both causes of death) - drugs commonly used, to cure, to supplement (vitamins, minerals) or reactions to drugs, do not ignore the usual medicines or herbal medicines used - vaccinations done, record the health record to remember the most recent year of vaccination against tetanus, diphtheria, measles, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, pneumonia and flu - write down the questions to ask or worries and concerns need to be answered by a physician.

Prevention is at the heart of a routine examination so physicians will place more emphasis on exploration to be done for early detection (screening) or programs to be implemented to help maintain good health and quality of life. more (for example, eating or exercising .) Of course, when you have some unpleasant symptoms, you still need to be taken care of immediately by the doctor, not waiting for the periodic examination.

Questions based on long-standing concerns help women actively participate in the lifelong disease prevention process because only when there is an understanding of risk is there a sense of self-awareness. Age, level of understanding help people know more about health. Everyone needs to know the current health parameters (blood pressure, blood sugar, blood cholesterol . age-based health risks; the needs to do; how to stay healthy (diet , advocacy, stress control, necessary vaccinations .).

Not every complicated examination is complicated, when the woman is young, the periodic examination is often just a minor examination for the detection of common gynecological diseases, blood pressure measurement, receiving lifestyle and health advice. sexually healthy, but when older, it is necessary to explore such as mammography, rectal screening, blood fat level measurement . When to begin periodic examination, how long and what kind of surveys are still dependent on the disease specificity of the age group, but when each woman is aware of the necessity and benefits of the routine examination, it means that they have begun to change their health protection behavior.

DAO XUAN DUNG