Did you know that there are some home remedies that may be harming you?

There are some home remedies we do that not does cure our disease and spend so much time, energy and money on it without seeking for medical attention. If these disease are left for a long time can  lead to complications. They range from the use of ginger, garlic,honey,beetroot, Aloe vera, parsley,mint etc
When patients arrive at the hospital and you ask how long it has been there, you hear answers like I have being treating it with different things but it has refused to go.
These are the common ones we hear;

• Using palm oil and potash to make boils ripe so that it can be pressed and the pus released from it.It is wrong because the fingers we are using to press it are so dirty that it introduces germs into the open wound leading to infection
• Using breast milk to cure conjuctivitis; Conjuctivitis is inflammation of the conjuctiva. it can be as a result of an allergy , bacterial, viral. The popular one is that which we call Apollo.
• Use of salt in burns
• Drinking alcohol (stout) or palm wine for breast feeding mothers to increase breast milk flow.
• Drinking coconut water, palm oil in cases of poison ingestion
• Drinking juices squeezed from paw paw leaves and seeds in cases of measeles, or any other rashes on the body.
• Use of juices from different leaves to cure jaundice in children
• Use of juice from vegetable to replenish lost blood.
• Pouring sand mixed with  saliva to on open wound on the lower extremities.
• Inserting garlic in the vagina to cure vaginal candidiasis.
• Use of juices from scent leaves to cure abdominal colic in infants.
• Use of juice from beet root to lower blood pressure
• Use of Vernonia amygdalina( bitter leaf) to cure diabetes mellitus
• Use of honey and ginger for cough.

The disease could be more than what a home remedy can cure. You could be having pulmonary tuberculosis in the case of cough and this is not what honey and ginger can cure. Always present to the hospital when ever you are ill. It saves you time ,money  and averts the complications that comes with the disease when not treated on time. 

I would like to hear from you guys.I want to know those that you do at home that wasnt mentioned here.

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