What Blood Tests Should You Take During Pre-Marital Checkup?

      Modern people attach great importance to their marriage life, especially their health condition. As health is the foundation of everything, we conduct some pre-marital health examinations to learn about each other’s health conditions. And the key point of pre-marital examination is the blood test. So, what blood tests do you want to take before marriage?

      Common items of pre-marital examination include blood routine examination, blood type test, blood sugar level, syphilis screening, gonorrhea screening, human immunodeficiency virus antibody detection, liver function test, and HBsAg detection. The items of prenatal eugenics test for pregnant women include rubella virus antigen detection and toxoplasma antibody detection. These are different from the blood testing items in routine health examinations.

      The practical significance of pre-marital examination depends on:

      1. Being helpful to each other and beneficial to the physical and mental health of the next generation. By conducting comprehensive pre-marital examinations, we can detect some abnormal phenomena and symptoms, and diagnose and correct them in a timely and proactive manner. For example, some temporary or permanent impacts on marriage or pregnancy may arise during routine health examinations. Under the guidance of doctors, we can make decisions and allocations that are beneficial to each other, and the physical and mental health of the next generation.

      2. Being helpful to eugenics education and improving the national quality. Based on the integration of family history, genealogy analysis, and daily personal health examinations, doctors can establish and diagnose some genetic defects, and calculate the risk level of “affecting eugenics education of the next generation” according to their transmission rules. This can help couples make birth control decisions after marriage to reduce or prevent the birth of inappropriate marriages and genetic disease children.

      3. Actively and reasonably grasping pregnancy opportunities and contraception measures. Based on each other’s physical conditions, physiological standards, and fertility plans, we can choose the best pregnancy opportunity or contraceptive measure, and provide specific guidance on adopting appropriate strategies and scientific research methods. For those who need to have children, we can help them improve the qualified rate of procedural pregnancy. For those who make birth control measures in advance, we can allow them to reduce unplanned pregnancies and abortion surgeries to ensure the physical and mental health of women and children.