A commonly prescribed medical test used these days to determine if you are sick, having difficulties, healthy or to best find why you are in discomfort or medical red-flag is a blood test referred to as a Complete Blood Count Test, or more often explained as, CBC, the acronym.

You and I couldn’t exist without 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 called out by doctors in t.v. dramas these days, but in reality, it is a vital step in understanding what’s right and what’s not right with you, at least, on the inside.

CBC blood tests can be requested by your doctor simply when you’re are under the weather, fatigued, or even if you simply have a common cold. You need not be at death’s door, nor completely sick to have CBC blood tests ordered.

Next time you have an appointment with your doctor, or physician for your annual check-up, if your doctor does not order a CBC Blood Test, you should ask for one. It is the cheapest, easiest, maybe even life-saving act you can do and definitely should do at least once a year.

Your complete blood count test is a representation of your internal (which fuels your exterior) health and if there’s something to worry about, odds are, life saving alerts will be found within your blood and its makeup. Not always, but more often enough. Several determining variables are researched 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 takes up), Hgb (or Hemoglobin which accounts for the oxygen inside your blood cells), and platelet count which allows your blood’s ability to clot.

Too many of one or too few of another essential part of your blood, depending on what numbers reveal themselves can be a ‘red-flag’ that tells your medical staff what’s really going on. While the diagnosis variables can be numerous and cover a wide spectrum, having a CBC Blood Test at least once per year, after visiting your physician can provide you the answers to most questions about your overall health, that just an external examination, listening to your heart, checking your breathing 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’re fatigued, not feeling ‘normal’, showing bruising for ‘no reason’, having chest discomfort, have an infection, are showing allergic reactions, plus a truck load of other possibilities. But, perhaps even more important, such blood tests allow you the possibly life-saving, time stretching benefit of catching early alerts and signs of maybe hazardous and life shortening trouble if allowed to grow. Write this down now for both yourself and your family to consistently (at least once a year) take part in a CBC Blood Test or Complete Blood Count Tests. It may spare your life and theirs, but even if nothing is seriously abnormal, it’s a simple way to increase the quality of your current lifestyle.

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- Robert McMackey

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