At a Glance
Package: Advance Fever Package. Tests: 70 parameters, 8 components. Price: From 1199. Fasting: Not required. Sample: Blood and urine, single visit. Reports: 12 hours, digital. Home collection: Free across Faridabad. Lab: NABL-accredited. Against the Basic Fever Package this tier adds four things: Dengue NS1 Antigen (Rapid), Typhidot - Serum (IgG - IgM BY ELISA) in place of Widal, and the full Kidney Function Test and Liver Function Test profiles. Those last two are the reason to choose it if you kept working through the fever rather than resting. Past day 6? See the timing section and consider the Comprehensive Fever Package, which adds Dengue IgM and Dengue IgG. ## What Kidney and Liver Function Show in Someone Who Kept Working A fever worked through usually has poor fluid intake behind it, and physical work pushes urea and creatinine up on its own, independently of any infection. Strenuous physical exertion transiently raises creatinine and uric acid — a real reading, but not one about your kidneys. So a raised creatinine on a fever report in someone doing physically demanding work has two explanations stacked on it: fluid loss from the illness, and the work itself. Your doctor separates them by repeating the value after rest and rehydration. Kidney Function Test (12) — urea, creatinine, electrolytes and GFR — is how fluid loss across several febrile days gets quantified. Liver Function Test (12) matters for a different reason: both dengue and typhoid commonly raise the transaminases SGOT and SGPT, and your doctor wants to know how far they have moved. The Basic Fever Package contains neither profile. Tell the phlebotomist what your work involves and when your last shift ended; it changes how the kidney numbers are read. ## Dengue NS1 Antigen: Why the Day of Fever Decides the Test Dengue NS1 Antigen (Rapid) detects a non-structural protein the virus manufactures — the virus, not your response to it. It is detectable from roughly day 1 to day 7 of fever and fades as antibodies appear. Dengue IgM appears around day 4 to day 5 and indicates current or recent infection. Dengue IgG suggests past infection, or secondary infection when it rises alongside IgM. The consequence is concrete: someone presenting on day 6 can be NS1-negative and IgM-positive, and an NS1-only test would call them negative. Inside day 1 to day 5 this package suffices; later, the Comprehensive Fever Package, with all three markers, has a genuine advantage. A negative NS1 early on does not rule dengue out, and no antigen or antibody result replaces clinical monitoring: falling platelets, rising haematocrit and warning signs guide treatment. ## Typhidot by ELISA Instead of Widal Typhidot - Serum (IgG - IgM BY ELISA) detects IgM and IgG antibodies specific to Salmonella typhi, turns positive earlier in the illness than Widal and does not react across other Salmonella species. Widal (Slide Agglutination Test), used in the Basic Fever Package, cross-reacts, persists after past infection or vaccination, and classically needs paired samples 7 to 10 days apart. One caveat: blood culture remains the reference standard for typhoid, and this package does not include it. If your doctor needs certainty before an antibiotic, ask for one before the first dose. ## Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination Four of the five findings on this profile are observations. The fifth is a sentence. Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination reports Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, Platelets, Hemoparasites and a written Impression — that Impression being a qualified pathologist's own reading of your slide, the one line on a fever report no machine could produce. Platelets: analysers count a clump of stuck-together platelets as one cell and print a dangerously low number for someone whose true count is fine — in suspected dengue, a reason to escalate treatment that should not exist. Hemoparasites: malarial parasites looked for inside red blood cells by eye, alongside the antigen assay. Red Blood Cells: direction for a low haemoglobin — microcytic cells fit iron deficiency, macrocytic cells B12 or folate deficiency, sickle shapes sickle cell disease — while blast cells on the white cell finding raise the possibility of leukaemia. Over 50% of Indian women aged 15–49 are anaemic (NFHS-5, 2019–21). None of it is automatable: a person makes and reads each slide, the line item dropped first when a package is priced down. ## The Other 3 Components CBC with ESR (21): haemoglobin, platelet count, haematocrit, the white cell differential and ESR — the core of a fever workup. MALARIA ANTIGEN -EIA (1): enzyme immunoassay for malarial antigen; can stay positive for days after treatment has cleared the parasites. Complete Urine Analysis (17): nitrites, leukocytes, pus cells, protein and casts — identifies urinary infection as the fever source. Detects overt proteinuria, not microalbuminuria. ## Limitations No Dengue IgM or IgG, no chikungunya IgM, scrub typhus, leptospira, COVID-19 or influenza test, no blood culture, no Procalcitonin, no CRP, no imaging. Fever with breathlessness, persistent vomiting, bleeding, drowsiness or falling urine output needs urgent in-person assessment. ## Sources NFHS-5, 2019–21 Content last reviewed: October 2026