Your package
Rs. 9,800
Nausea & Appetite Loss Check
+ General Physician consultation
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Home collection is available in Lahore only.
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Before your visit
- Fast for 8 to 12 hours before the sample. Plain water is fine. The fast is for the lipid profile and the fasting sugar; the hepatitis tests, the blood count, the liver, kidney and thyroid tests are unaffected by food.
- Book a morning slot, which is the practical end of an overnight fast.
- Collect the urine correctly, because this is the one sample you handle yourself. Use the first urine of the morning if you can, wash your hands, pass a little into the toilet first and catch the middle of the stream in the container. A carelessly taken sample is the commonest reason a urine report has to be repeated.
- Women should not give a urine sample during a period. Blood in the sample makes the result impossible to read properly. Reschedule for a few days after it finishes.
- A hepatitis B vaccination does not make HBsAg positive, so being vaccinated is not a reason to skip this test. If what you actually want to know is whether your vaccination worked, that is a different test called anti-HBs, and your doctor can order it.
- Tell the doctor about every herbal or hakeem preparation and any regular paracetamol. Both raise liver enzymes on their own, and an unexplained raised ALT is exactly the finding this panel is trying to interpret correctly.
- Avoid alcohol for at least 72 hours before, if it applies to you, since it moves both the liver enzymes and the triglycerides.
- Do not train hard in the 48 hours before the sample. Heavy exercise raises AST and creatinine and can make a healthy liver and healthy kidneys look abnormal.
- A negative result does not cover a very recent exposure. Both tests need weeks to turn positive after an infection, so if you have a specific worry about something that happened in the last month or two, say so, and your doctor will tell you when to repeat it.
- Postpone the panel if you have a fever or an active infection.
- Not for under 18s.
- Your results are yours. A positive screen is a medical finding to be worked up, not a verdict, and the consultation is a private one to one conversation with the doctor.
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