One of the most common types of medical tests used these days to decipher if you are sick, 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.

You and I couldn’t exist unless we had blood flowing head to toes within our bodies. Thus it makes sense it is one of the first tests ordered when determining diagnosis. A CBC blood test is often called out by doctors in television dramas these days, which may be a bit of an overkill, but in actuality, it is a crucial step in understanding what is normal and what is wrong with you, internally.

A CBC blood test can be requested by a doctor simply when you’re not feeling well, fatigued, or even if you simply have a cold you can’t get rid of. You need not be inches from your death bed, nor obviously ill to have CBC blood tests ordered.

But, that said, every year when you visit your doctor, or physician for your annual check-up, if your physician doesn’t order a CBC Blood Test, you should ask for one. It is the cheapest, ‘no brainer’, maybe even life-saving thing you can do and definitely 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’s trouble, odds are, early signs will be found within your blood and its components. Not always, but more often enough. Many determining factors are studied in 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 occupies), Hgb (or Hemoglobin that accounts for the oxygen inside your blood cells), and platelet count which allows your blood’s ability to clot.

Too many or too few of another ingredient of your blood, depending on those numbers could be a ‘red-flag’ that tells your medical staff what is really going on. While the diagnosis variations can be numerous and cover a wide spectrum, having your CBC Blood Test at least per year, after visiting your doctor can supply you the answers to many questions about your internal and external health, that just an external examination, listening to your heart, checking your lungs and using a tongue depressor just can’t do.

A CBC (Complete Blood Count) Test (or Tests) can provide you specific reasons why you’re fatigued, not feeling ‘normal’, showing bruising for ‘no reason’, having chest pains, have a virus, are showing allergic reactions, plus a truck load of other possibilities. But, perhaps even more important, these blood tests allow you the possibly life-saving, time stretching benefit of catching early alerts and signs of maybe debilitating and life threatening trouble if ignored. Write this down now for both yourself and your family to consistently (at least annually) take part in a CBC Blood Test or Complete Blood Count Tests. Sure, may spare your life and theirs, but even if nothing is terribly abnormal, it is a simple method to boost the quality of your current lifestyle.

A regular author of the independently operated an up and coming healthy living tips web site, Dave Whitsom, strives to share with his audience the importance of healthy living eating and its role in your quality of life.

- Dave Whitsom

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