At a Glance
Package: Full Body Checkup with Vitamin D & B12. Tests: 79 parameters, 9 components. Price: From 899. Fasting: 10 hours. Sample: Blood and urine, single draw. Reports: 24 hours, digital. Home collection: Free across Faridabad. Lab: NABL-accredited.
This is the Basic Full Body Checkup plus Vitamin B12 (1) and Vitamin D 25-Hydroxy (1): 79 parameters, 9 components. It runs parallel to two other variants, not above them — the Full Body Checkup with Thyroid adds a Thyroid Profile (80), the Full Body Checkup with HbA1c adds thyroid plus a three-month glucose average (82). The Advanced Full Body Checkup with Vitamin D & B12 holds all three sets of additions at 89.
Hard Work Indoors Is Not Time in the Sun
One assumption is worth dismantling before reading a vitamin D result: that physically demanding work implies sun exposure. Across Faridabad's workshops, plants and trade premises, most of it happens under a roof. The shift covers the daylight hours, the journey sits at either end, and the skin that would make vitamin D sees almost none of the triggering wavelength. A shed roof and window glass both block UVB, so being near daylight is not being in it.
Vitamin D 25-Hydroxy is the screening form of the test. The Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline, 2011 reads below 20 ng/mL as deficiency, 20-30 as insufficiency, above 30 as adequate. Reported deficiency across Indian populations ranges from 40% to over 90% (Ritu & Gupta, IJCM, 2014;39(4):178-184). What makes it worth measuring rather than guessing here is the symptom overlap: low vitamin D causes diffuse bone and muscle ache, lower back pain and weakness in the thigh and shoulder muscles — difficulty rising from a squat or on stairs. In a job involving lifting and standing, each reads as the normal cost of the work, so the correctable version goes untested.
Vitamin B12 occurs naturally only in animal-derived foods, and the amounts in milk, curd and paneer fall short of daily needs. Between 47% and 70% of Indians are deficient, above 70% among vegetarians (Yajnik et al., JAPI, 2006;54:775-782). It presents as fatigue, tingling or numbness in the hands and feet, unsteadiness, a sore tongue and memory difficulty, and prolonged deficiency leaves nerve damage that does not fully reverse.
Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination
This profile matters most for anyone already on a supplement. A serum B12 rises within days of the first tablet, so a number measured after that reflects this week, not the months before. Red blood cells last roughly 120 days, so the cells circulating now were made under the old conditions — and if B12 or folate were short, they are enlarged. A pathologist reading the slide still sees that while the serum figure already looks normal.
The Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination is read by a qualified pathologist who prepares a slide and works through it cell by cell under a microscope. No analyser performs it: pathologist time, not machine time, which is why it is usually the first component dropped on price. Five findings are reported: Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, Platelets, Hemoparasites and a written Impression. Macrocytic cells support low B12 or folate, microcytic pale cells point to iron deficiency, sickle-shaped cells to sickle cell disease. The slide also detects blast cells raising the possibility of leukaemia, platelet clumping an automated counter misreads as a dangerously low count, and malarial parasites inside red cells; dengue and malaria are endemic across Delhi NCR.
What These Results Cannot Tell You
A serum B12 inside the reference range does not fully exclude functional deficiency: it measures total circulating B12, not what reaches cells. Where symptoms persist with a borderline value, homocysteine or methylmalonic acid is the follow-up; neither is included, nor are folate, parathyroid hormone or intrinsic factor antibodies. A normal Vitamin D 25-Hydroxy does not rule out a calcium or parathyroid disorder. There is no Thyroid Profile, no Iron Studies and no HbA1c, and the urine analysis detects overt protein but not microalbuminuria. Nothing here tests anything occupational.
The Other 6 Components
CBC with ESR (21): Anaemia, infection, inflammation, blood disorders; over 50% of Indian women aged 15-49 are anaemic (NFHS-5, 2019-21). Liver Function Test (12): Bilirubin fractions, ALP, SGOT, SGPT, GGT, protein group; NAFLD affects 30-40% of urban Indian adults (Duseja et al., Indian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2022). Kidney Function Test (12): Urea, creatinine, BUN, electrolytes, calcium, phosphorus, uric acid and GFR by MDRD; calcium and phosphorus read alongside vitamin D, which governs calcium absorption. Lipid Profile (9): Non-HDL cholesterol, a better cardiovascular predictor than LDL alone (AHA/ACC, 2018). Complete Urine Analysis (17): Protein, glucose, ketones, blood, nitrites, pus cells, casts. Blood Glucose Fasting (1): Under 100 mg/dL normal, 100-125 prediabetes, 126 or above diabetes (ADA, 2024).
Sources
Ritu & Gupta, IJCM, 2014;39(4):178-184 · Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline, 2011 · Yajnik et al., JAPI, 2006;54:775-782 · NFHS-5, 2019-21 · ADA Standards of Care in Diabetes, 2024 · AHA/ACC Cholesterol Guideline, 2018 · Duseja et al., Indian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2022
Content last reviewed: October 2026