Chronic diseases have a common feature, in the persistence of symptoms over a averagely long period of time. This fact readily comes to mind in the diagnosis of chronic liver disease, in which symptoms established must have lasted for about 6 months to validate a diagnosis of the disease…. Chronic liver disease is a persistent…
DetailsChronic diseases have come to be a mainstay of clinically managed cases for renal units in most Nigerian hospitals. As usual, prevention would be an important determining factor in the continuance or cessation of this trend. In this series, we’ll discuss chronic disorders of important organs in the body and their sequelae. The first…
DetailsA syndrome is defined as a recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms and/or behaviours. In other words, a combination of classic signs attached to some particular conditions makes them syndromes. In the case of syndrome X, most of the disorders associated with it don’t have obvious signs and symptoms, defying the first rule of the word…
DetailsAny basic definition of ‘food’ should revolve around the central idea that you take in food to nourishment. Why then should we let our food be the very cause of ill health? Problems arising from poor food hygiene and sanitation are at best unpleasant, a few episodes of vomiting and diarrhea might suffice; at worst,…
DetailsThe developed world has experienced the transition from the nutritional burden of under nutrition to obesity, that’s a whole new set of problems too anyway. Yet, the developing countries are still most affected. Why? There’s now a double burden of nutrition on most developing countries. On one side is the privileged and well-fed population tending…
DetailsOnce upon a time, the problem was ‘not eating enough’. People were simply not getting enough to eat or had to engage in extremely active lifestyles to get their food. Health care was nothing to write home about and the average life expectancy was low. Then modernization, economic development and increased diets led to predictable…
DetailsThis shouldn’t sound unfamiliar to any lover of Hollywood movies. A man is travelling with his wife and daughter along the highway. He’s laughing, they’re both laughing, there’s simply a lot of love in the air. Then an oncoming truck accelerates out of nowhere, hits the car off the road into a ditch….and only the…
DetailsAt one point in time of the life of the average Nigerian, the use of local herbs must have taken place. My mother used to force me to take it in on the pretext of neutralizing the ‘dangerously sweet’ things I’d taken earlier. Years down the line, I’ve come to wonder, how effective can these…
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