If you haven’t heard that the chemical, BPA in cash receipts, ATM receipts and POS receipts can be a health risk; you have to read this.
What is BPA?
TUBERCULOSIS -IT’S TIME.
“The earth is suffocating… Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won’t be buried alive.”
Frederic Chopin, a famous Polish composer, uttered this when he was dying of Tuberculosis. That is the extent of the pain he felt at the time before his death. He was reported to be…
For every complaint of headache in my country, Nigeria you are asked if you have treated malaria and if antibiotics was added to take care of typhoid fever. This is because to them these are the major triggers of headache. Well, it is indeed a sad story…
4th of February, World Cancer Day has long been celebrated. Let’s not dust ourselves and act like it’s just for a day that we have to talk about cancer. We still need to think of the way forward.
Recently, a patient asked me to educate him more about a prescription for his eyes containing Hypromellose.
I realised that a lot of prescriptions I have been dispensing for the eyes contain this particular active ingredient, Hypromellose.
The Monster Called Lead!
Lead is a naturally occurring element found in small amounts in the earth’s crust and is a useful metal but can be toxic to humans when exposed to high concentrations of it. It is everywhere in the air, the soil, the water.
Life is like a buffet…
The doctor of the future will give no medicines, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the causes and prevention of disease. ~Thomas Edison
Living healthy has been the crux of my initiative. It is so easy to live healthy and so easy to…
Red Alert!
Mr A arrives the chemist and requests for ginseng supplement. He is served the supplement. Unknown to the chemist, Mr A is a hypertensive patient and has been on antihypertensive medication and blood thinners for some years now. Mr A is rushed to the hospital 2 days later with an elevated blood pressure.
I Need an Antibiotic!
“Please, I need Ampiclox capsules”, said one of my patients. I had to ask why she needed just a sachet of Ampiclox capsules which wasn’t even a complete dose. She insisted that I wouldn’t understand why she needs to take it so urgently. Well, I didn’t oblige her because she would need a prescription to…
How to Ruin Your Liver!
I have an aunt who used to take four(4) tablets of acetaminophen(Tylenol, Paracetamol) each containing 500mg of the active ingredient making it 2000mg as against 1000mg, the actual dose for adults. Sometimes she would add Ibuprofen tablets to this and take all at once. She would say it is the best…