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Aug92019

Tales of a mostly untold story

UncategorizedBy Alert DoctorsAugust 9, 2019Leave a comment

Most Nigerian couples today must have passed through some form of counselling at some point in time before marriage. The medical aspect of it always involves blood tests for genotype, blood group and assay for various infectious viruses. The level of awareness about the need for genotype compatibility has risen greatly in the past few…

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Aug82019

Breastfeeding and the mother’s health

UncategorizedBy Alert DoctorsAugust 8, 2019Leave a comment

Perhaps one of the most interesting facts about breastfeeding would be that it comes with a ‘double health care package’, one for the breastfed and the other for the ‘breast feeder’ who is usually the mother in most cases. Although this isn’t true for all mothers, breastfeeding actually helps the mother lose weight. This is…

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Aug82019

Just breast milk, your baby and breast milk only.

UncategorizedBy Alert DoctorsAugust 8, 2019Leave a comment

Medical director, Isolo General Hospital (IGH), Dr. Godwin Akhaboa, has stressed the need for exclusive breastfeeding to reduce infant mortality and promote better health for mother and child- Guardian newspapers on Aug 2, 2019. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the under-five mortality ratio in Nigeria is 201 per 1000 live births meaning that…

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Aug72019

Two parallel lines finally meet in one disease

UncategorizedBy Alert DoctorsAugust 7, 2019Leave a comment

I think one of the laws of mathematics that stuck to me all through my years of struggling with the subject must have been the fact that two parallel lines are never to meet. In fact, the case is that parallel lines are always drawn according to the law and not vice versa. In other…

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Aug42019

Not just a rash.

PediatricsBy Alert DoctorsAugust 4, 2019Leave a comment

It probably started as a rash breakout on a little boy or girl. The mother probably visited the local pharmacy or herbalist and got some ointment to rub all over the child’s body. Anyway, it has now claimed the lives of 100 children in the Wusar community of Igani local government located in Kaduna state.…

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Aug22019

Unnecessary, little yet potentially dangerous

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No other human organ is more aptly described by the words above other than the human appendix, a finger-shaped pouch that projects from your colon on the lower right side of your abdomen. Okay, so your appendix literally has been definitely found to perform a single function, and that is doing nothing. However, the appendix…

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Jul312019

One day after 40

Sex and Reproductive HealthBy Alert DoctorsJuly 31, 2019Leave a comment

One day after age 40, a man might wake up in the morning and rush to the toilet in a bid to relieve himself of the pressure built up in his bladder over the course of the night. Standing over the toilet, he might have to strain more than usual to pass out urine, which…

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Jul302019

One decent toilet – Part 2

UncategorizedBy Alert DoctorsJuly 30, 2019Leave a comment

By 2030 we should achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations- Target two of the sustainable development goal number 6 on sanitation, stated in the year 2015. Four years on, we’re no…

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