World Sickle Cell Day Celebration: A Lecture at ChronMate
TWO DAYS AGO, JUNE 19, was World Sickle Cell Day, and as part of the celebration, I gave an online lecture at ChronMate, an NGO, committed to fighting non-communicable diseases in Nigeria.
TWO DAYS AGO, JUNE 19, was World Sickle Cell Day, and as part of the celebration, I gave an online lecture at ChronMate, an NGO, committed to fighting non-communicable diseases in Nigeria.
SO THE OTHER DAY, a tweeter @kandiwapa11, shared a pic of the sores he got on his mouth days after giving oral sex to a woman. He said he got sick for 3 days [see attached pic].
SHE WAS BROUGHT INTO the obstetric emergency ward in an unconscious state. The story was that she had earlier been advised by her doctor to go for a Caesarean Section on account of a very high blood pressure and protein in urine (a condition known as severe preeclampsia) & because she has already had one CS in the past.
You might be having a medical condition known as ENDOMETRIOSIS, whereby the cells that make up the carpet of the womb are found elsewhere in the body, causing unbearable pain during menses.
It is true that a lot of young women had been victims of rape or sexual assault at some point in their lives, though they chose not to report it due to the usual backlash from the society and lackadaisical attitude of law enforcement agencies to rape.
So on Monday and Tuesday next week (8th and 9th June) I will be organizing a paid WhatsApp class to tackle these two issues.
IT AMAZES ME WHEN some people see me reading non-medical books and they appear shocked because:
If you think that an act of rape, no matter the circumstance, is any remote way a fault of the girl, you’re a rape apologist.
The placenta, as we all know, is the organ that develops in the womb of pregnant women which provides a source of oxygen and nutrients to the growing baby. But what some people don’t know is that it forms in the 4TH MONTH of pregnancy. That’s to say, at the beginning of the second trimester. From that point onwards, it is the live wire of the baby till it is born.
POTS is a medical condition that arises because the body fails to control the blood pressure well when someone changes position (dysautonomia).