At a Glance
Profile: Complete Blood Count (CBC) + ESR. Tests: 21 parameters. Price: From 450. Fasting: Not required. Sample: Blood. Reports: 24 hours, digital. Home collection: Available across Noida. Lab: NABL-accredited. Noida's offshore-support, BPO and IT floors run on night and rotational shifts, and the most practical fact about this panel for anyone on that pattern is that it requires no fasting whatsoever. Every full body package contains a Lipid Profile and a Fasting Glucose, both of which need a 10-hour overnight fast — precisely the window a night-shift worker does not have. This panel has no such requirement, so a draw at 7 AM coming off shift, at 2 PM on a rest day or at 9 PM before clocking in is equally valid. ## Platelet Count Is One of the 21 Parameters People often search for a platelet count on its own, and this is the panel that reports it. Platelet Count sits alongside the red and white cell values here, so a separate order is unnecessary. It is the parameter doctors follow day by day during a dengue illness, where the direction of travel over consecutive days matters far more than any single figure. Low platelets also turn up in other viral infections, with certain medicines, in liver disease and in bone marrow disorders. One caution worth knowing: platelets sometimes clump inside the collection tube and an automated analyser undercounts them, so an alarmingly low result is normally checked on a slide before anyone acts on it. ## Fatigue on a Rotational Shift Is Not Always the Shift Rotational work produces tiredness by itself, which is exactly why a low haemoglobin can go unexamined for months — the symptom already has an explanation. This panel settles the question cheaply. More usefully, it classifies what it finds. MCV gives average red cell size, MCH and MCHC describe how much haemoglobin each cell carries, and RDW-CV measures how unequal the cells are in size. Small cells point towards iron deficiency or thalassemia trait; large cells towards B12 or folate deficiency; normal-sized cells with low haemoglobin towards blood loss or chronic disease. Over 50% of Indian women aged 15–49 are anaemic (NFHS-5, 2019–21), and the classification, not the haemoglobin figure, is what determines the next test. ## The White Cell Differential WBC count Total is reported with Neutrophils, Lymphocytes, Monocytes, Eosinophils, Basophils and Others, each as a percentage and as an absolute count. The pattern carries the information rather than the total: neutrophil-dominant is the usual bacterial picture, lymphocyte-dominant is more typical of viral illness, and raised eosinophils suggest an allergic or parasitic process. Absolute counts appear beside the percentages because a percentage is misleading once the total has moved. ## ESR and Its Blunt Edge Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate is included. It rises in autoimmune disease, chronic infection and some cancers, and it responds over days rather than hours, so it flags a process that has been running a while. It is deliberately non-specific — it confirms inflammation exists without locating it, and it also drifts up with age, in pregnancy and in anaemia itself. A raised ESR is a reason for your doctor to look further, not a diagnosis. ## On Timing and Repeat Samples Nothing in these 21 parameters follows a daily rhythm the way TSH or cortisol do, so a shift worker's unconventional collection hour does not compromise the result. What does matter is consistency when the test is being repeated. If a platelet or haemoglobin trend is being tracked across several days, keep the collection roughly at the same point in your own cycle each time so the readings are comparable. Avoid heavy exertion in the hour or two beforehand, as that transiently shifts white cell counts. ## What This Panel Cannot Do It cannot tell you the cause of an anaemia, only its type. The follow-ups are Iron Studies, which separates true iron deficiency from the anaemia of chronic disease, and Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination, where a pathologist describes how the cells actually look rather than counting them. Both can be booked alone, and both sit inside every full body package, starting with the Basic Full Body Checkup (77 parameters) — so if a doctor has asked for two or three panels, a package costs less than ordering each one separately. A normal CBC does not exclude early blood disease, says nothing about clotting function, and does not detect thalassemia trait. ## What Is Not Included No ferritin or other iron marker, no Vitamin B12 or folate level, no Hb electrophoresis or HPLC for thalassemia, no reticulocyte count, no PT/INR or APTT, no C-Reactive Protein, no peripheral smear, no bone marrow examination, and no dengue, malaria or typhoid test. Each is a separate order. ## Sources NFHS-5, 2019–21 Content last reviewed: October 2026
