One of the most common types of medical tests used today to decipher if you are ill, experiencing trouble, if you aren’t sick at all or to best find why you are in discomfort or medical finding is a blood test referred to as a Complete Blood Count, or more often explained as, CBC, the acronym.

Humans couldn’t carry on unless we had blood flowing from top to bottom within our bodies. Thus it makes perfect sense it is one of the first tests ordered by your doctor when determining diagnosis. A CBC blood test is often shouted by doctors in television shows these days, which may be a bit of an overkill, but in reality, it is a crucial step in knowing what’s right and what’s wrong with you, at least, on the inside.

A CBC blood test may be prescribed by your doctor simply when you are not feeling well, chronically tired, or even if you simply have had difficulty and don’t know how to get rid of a cold. You don’t have to be inches from your death bed, nor completely sick to have a CBC blood testCBC blood test ordered.

Next time you have an appointment with your doctor, physician or alternative practitioner for your annual physical, if your doctor doesn’t order a CBC Blood Test, you should ask for one. It is the cheapest, easiest, perhaps life-saving thing you can do and should do at least once a year.

Your complete blood count test, or CBC is a representation of your internal (which fuels your exterior) health and if there is something to worry about, odds are, signs will be found within your blood and its components. Not always, but more often enough. A number of determining factors are researched with CBC Blood Tests: white blood cells and red blood cells or levels, the HCT (or Hematocrit, which basically determines the volume of space which your blood takes up), Hgb (or Hemoglobin that accounts for the oxygen inside your blood cells), and platelet count which determines your blood’s ability to clot.

Too many of one or too few of another essential part of your blood, depending on those numbers can be a alert that reveals to your medical staff what’s really happening inside you. While the diagnosis variables can be numerous and cover a wide spectrum, having your CBC Blood Test at least once per year, after visiting your physician can hand you the answers to most questions about your internal and external health, that physical touch, listening to your heart, checking your lungs and opening your mouth and saying, ‘Ahhhh,’ just can’t do.

A CBC (Complete Blood Count) Test (or Tests) can provide you specific answers to why you are tired, not feeling ‘normal’, showing bruising for ‘no reason’, having chest pains, have an infection, are having adverse reactions, plus a slew of other possibilities. But, perhaps even more important, such blood tests allow you the potentially life-saving, time stretching benefit of detecting early alerts and signs of perhaps debilitating and life shortening trouble if allowed to grow. Make a note now for you and your family to consistently (at least once a year) take part in a CBC Blood Test or Complete Blood Count Tests. It could save your life and theirs, but even if nothing is terribly out of order, it’s a simple way to increase the quality of your current lifestyle.

A regular author of the independently owned an up and coming healthy living tips web site, Bradley Kohn, strives to contribute with his readers the importance of healthy eating on a budget and its role in your quality of life.

- Bradley Kohn

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