According to medical experts, women need to
check their health to prevent diseases effectively.
1. Take an X-ray breast
Women that have low risk of catching
disease should take mammography once every 2 years from 50 years old. However,
many doctors and medical organizations don’t agree with this view. It your risk
of catching breast cancer is high because of history of family, you should take
mammography every year when you are 40 years old (or earlier).
2. Check health
The rate of people that catches skin cancer
is more and more increasing. The best way to prevent it early is you yourselves
can check moles that have just appeared on skin or consider unusual signs every
month. In addition, you need to carry out check general skin in hospitals that
have dermatology.
3. Test eyes
Most
of the women have problems that relate to eyesight.
Most women have problems that relate to
eyesight with many different levels because they always have the risks of dried
eyes and autoimmune diseases also affect eyes’ health.
4. Test ears
To check hearing ability of ears, you
should be measured hearing graph once a year before you are 50 years old – this
is the time when hearing begins to reduce. However, if you realize that you don’t
hear clearly, you should go to see ENT specialist to check earlier.
5. Check teeth and mouth
You should check once a year (once every 6
months if you want to take tartar or make hygiene for teeth), organ that has
chewing function of the body needs to be checked and taken X-ray by dentists to
detect unusual things. The inflamed state in gums or tooth decay not only makes
you feel uncomfortable but also causes heart disease and diabetes.
You
should check once a year (once every 6 months if you want to take tartar or
make hygiene for teeth).
6. Check hormones that stimulate thyroid gland
Cold feeling, tiredness, constipation and
gaining weight are popular symptoms of state of declining in activities of
thyroid gland that about 10% women catch. Normally, testing will be done in
times of checking health periodically. However, you should also test blood
earlier if you feel that you have above symptoms.
7. Test blood
When you are 40 years old and over, you
need to check about cholesterol and blood sugar (help detect diabetes) every
year because the risk of catching heart disease and diabetes will be high in
this age.
When
you are 40 over years old, you need to check about cholesterol and blood sugar
every year.
8. Pap test (cell of neck of the womb)
When you are 20 years old and in spite of
your history about sexual relation, you should take Pap test (cell of neck of
the womb – a kind of cytology test to find unusual cells in muscles of neck of
the womb) to detect signs about neck of the womb cancer.
9. Endoscopy
Women that are over 50 years will be asked
to do this test and repeated by doctors once every 10 years. In the cases with
appearance of tumor, endoscopy needs to be carried out more regularly.
Moreover, you need to have endoscopy early if your relatives in your family
catch bowel cancer, or meet bleeding state as well as unusual changes that
relate to digestive problems.
10. Check
about depression
Some simple questions of psychologists
about daily activities about constitution can define state of depression that
can affect ¼ of women. However, this disease isn’t diagnosed and cured. If you
take care of “health” of mentality, you should ask doctors to carry out testing
in psychology.
