Houston: Former US first lady Barbara Bush was hospitalised on Saturday in Houston to undergo routine tests but doctors do not suspect anything serious, a family spokeswoman said.
Bush, 84, was being treated at Methodist Hospital and should be released in a day or two, spokeswoman Jean Becker said on Saturday.
"She hasn't been feeling well for about a week, and the doctors thought she should come in and undergo a battery of tests," Becker said. "It's not serious. She just hasn't been feeling herself and they're just trying to figure out why."
Becker declined to provide details, but said former US president George H.W. Bush drove his wife to the hospital Saturday morning after consulting with her doctors.
A hospital spokeswoman declined comment, saying information was only being released through the family.
Mrs. Bush was hospitalised for nine days after undergoing heart surgery in March 2009, for a severe narrowing of the main heart valve.
Doctors at the time said the condition was common among people her age. She also was hospitalised in November 2008, when she underwent surgery for a perforated ulcer. Doctors said the two ailments were unrelated.
In this Oct. 3, 2008 file photo, former first lady Barbara Bush speaks at a dedication ceremony for the George and Barbara Bush Center at the University of New England, in Biddeford, Maine.
