Every year we make promises that we end up not fulfilling. For us to achieve all these it is better we split them into feasible units. When you decide to take everything all at once it becomes difficult to achieve.
I know top on the list of ladies will be to shed some weight if they obese. For the guys, may be to reduce the belly fat not necessarily having a 6 pack abs.
I just highlighted some...
Thursday, 31 December 2015
Giant hairball weighing ONE KILO pulled from girl's stomach
An 11-year-old girl was rushed to hospital after she had an agonising tummy ache and couldn’t eat or even drink a glass of water any more.
Doctors decided to carry out immediate surgery but they couldn’t believe what they pulled out.
Inside the girl’s body was a humungous hairball which weighed more than a kilo – the same weight as a whole pineapple or a melon.
The black cluster filled up...
Tuesday, 29 December 2015
End of Ebola transmission in Guinea
Geneva, 29 December 2015 - Today the World Health Organization (WHO) declares the end of Ebola virus transmission in the Republic of Guinea. Forty-two days have passed since the last person confirmed to have Ebola virus disease tested negative for the second time. Guinea now enters a 90-day period of heightened surveillance to ensure that any new cases are identified quickly before they...
Tuesday, 22 December 2015
Keep those items out of reach of children
This post was inspired by what happened to a paediatric patient some time ago at the hospital. The mother rushed the child to the hospital crying and a history of iron tablet ingestion was gotten. The mother was pregnant and placed her routine antenatal drugs at the reach of the child. The child ingested a lot of of the iron drugs making his health condition bad.
Children are difficult...
Saturday, 19 December 2015
Be on the alert!!!
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The day was going on well not until around past the hour of 8.00 at night, when a female patient walked into the consulting room accompanied by 2 men. Her hair was looking unkempt. I just couldn't wait to start taking my history to know what to do for her.
Patient; Good evening ma
Doc; How are you? Do sit down. What is the problem?
Patient ; I just thank God for...
Sex gone sour
I had the following conversation with my male patient
Patient; Doc please help me oooo ...
What do you know about premarital screening?
Marriage is a thing of joy that should be enjoyed by both partners, not a thing to endure. Family, friends, colleagues, neighbours are always happy to hear that one of their own is getting married.
In the past few days its been so disheartening for me, patients coming to the ER(emergency room) with bone pains crying and begging you to relieve them of their pains. The analgesics work for few...
Wednesday, 16 December 2015
Learn more about 'Non-occupational PEP'
A lot of us do not know that there is a term known as 'Non-occupational PEP'. Let me define the meaning of PEP and from there we can relate it to the post .
PEP simply means post-exposure prophylaxis. It is a therapy(drugs) given to individuals who are exposed to either HIV infection or Hepatitis B infection, to reduce the risk of becoming infected. But for the scope of this post I...
Tuesday, 15 December 2015
My yearly birthday gifts
A lot of people celebrate their birthdays yearly and remember to put it up on facebook and other social media platforms where people send in birthday wishes to them,upload pictures of the birthday celebrations on different social media platforms where they get very nice comments. Some of us are not aware that there are some medical tests that we should do yearly just as we celebrate our birthdays....
Beauty gone bizarre
We always want to jump on the bandwagon to imitate both our foreign and indigenous celebrities in all they do. You have piercings done on the ear lobe, septum of the nose, on the eye lids, tongues, navel,nipples, and even on the cli---is all in the name of fashion. The first picture of a swelling on the ear shows what is called 'Keloid' In an attempt to have multiple...
Saturday, 12 December 2015
Welcome to my blog
Hello guys welcome to Dr Isu-Egwu Stella's blog. I am so excited to have my own health blog. I want to use this blog to teach people about their health and to share with them the experiences I have garnered in the past years . Is really shocking to see what people still do in this 21st century to their children when they are ill or even to others all in the name of treating them before bringing them to a health centre. I want to use this platform to enlighten us about our health...
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