shah2014 said:
Someone on whatsapp group shared a precaution for all Medical test aspirants to avoid Drinking and Smoking for couple of days before medical. Not sure if it will have any impact, but thought of sharing it with others.
Anyone has an idea, what impact it has on Medicals? As far as my knowledge is concerned, Medical is not for general health conditions but mainly to check for contagious diseases (eradicated from Canada) and very sever health conditions which can put extra ordinary burden on health system. Any comments?
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Smoking increases your Blood Pressure, if it is more than 140/90 at the time of examination - you would be subject to unnecessary additional exams such as ECG, TMT and 2D echo etc. in that order to determine if there is any damage to heart tissue. Serum Creatinine might also be done to check Kidney damage due to high BP. They want to determine potential progression of the diesease in case some damage is present already.
Drinking increase your liver enzymes (ALT, GGT, AST etc.), Elevated liver enzymes might necessiate additional exams such as Hep A, B, C etc. Though I understand they check for elevated enzymes only if they suspect hepatitis risk (I think some forms are contagious).
The progression of any of these potential dieseases would put a burden on Canadian healthcare in future as these develop slowly over period of time.
Better to keep them under control to avoid furtherance of the tests, which will delay your process. In addition, like one recent example - A greedy doc might see an opportunity to make more money by additional tests too..
