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A Public Health physician at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Prof. Tanimola Akande, has cautioned Nigerians to be wary of offers of free trips abroad from spurious persons. He noted that such offers of free foreign travel are being used to trick people into organ harvesting scams.
The physician said that Nigerians are already dying from these organ harvesting scams, urging the citizens to be alert and wary of sudden offers of free trips overseas to seek greener pastures even when such offers come from seemingly close family and friends.
A consultant gynaecologist, Dr. Stanley Egbogu, has warned women against using natural remedies for the removal of fibroids. Egbogu who works at Nnamdi Azikwe Teaching Hospital, Awka, Anambra, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Lagos.
Fibroids are non-cancerous growths that develop in or around the womb (uterus). The growths are made up of muscle and fibrous tissue and vary in size. Egbogu said that many women take medicines that claim to be effective in removing fibroids.
Don’t use Placentyne Hair Lotion from Italy, NAFDAC cautions women
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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has cautioned Nigerian women against the use of Placentyne Hair Lotion for hair breakage, noting that the product has been banned.
The agency said the alert on the product is issued as a result of safety information gotten from the European Rapid Alert System for dangerous non-food products. The NAFDAC public alert with No. 0033/2022 signed by NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Moji Adeyeye, was posted on the official website of NAFDAC.
Obese children coming down with Type 2 diabetes, hypertension –Expert
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A Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Abiola Oduwole, says obese children are now coming down with Type 2 diabetes and hypertension.
Prof. Oduwole who is also a Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital stated that children with obesity experience the same problem that adults with obesity experience, warning parents to be wary of their children’s lifestyle and eating habits.
Hepatitis C, B infections can spread through dirty public toilets, expert warns Nigerians
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A medical researcher, Dr. Dan Onwujekwe, has urged Nigerians using public toilets to pay attention to the hygiene of the ones they use, warning that Hepatitis B and C infections could be acquired from them.
He noted that people could acquire the viral infection if there is direct contact with the blood or open sores of a person who had been infected. According to the expert, people should disinfect public toilets with bleach before using them to avoid exposing themselves to the risk of infections.
Water from boreholes, wells in Lagos unfit for human consumption –Commissioner
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The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has urged Lagos residents to exercise caution with the consumption of water from boreholes, warning that water gotten from boreholes and wells in Lagos is not fit for human consumption.
According to the commissioner, water from boreholes in Lagos is not even suitable for animals because tests have confirmed its contamination by very dangerous pathogens. Prof. Abayomi said the presence of very dangerous pathogens in water aquifers has been confirmed in water from boreholes around Lagos, noting that some residents have even come down with infections after consuming borehole water.
Sitting too long could increase risk of heart disease, early death, study says
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A new study has indicated that sitting down for more than eight hours in a day could increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases. It also noted that people who sit for too long are equally more prone to heart disease complications leading to death.
The study further indicated that reduction of inactive time, as well as increasing physical activity, could be crucial to easing the burden of untimely deaths and cardiovascular disease worldwide. The population-based cohort study which was published in the JAMA Cardiology studied 105,677 participants from 21 countries, aged 35 to 70.
The Federal Government plans to prosecute users of Polychlorinated Biphenyl, popularly known as transformer oil, in frying “Akara” (bean cake), plantain chips, chicken and other food items. Prof. Babajide Alloy, a Consultant to the Federal Ministry of Environment, disclosed this on Tuesday in an interview with newsmen on the sidelines of a workshop in Calabar.
According to him, the consumption of food prepared from the chemical substance will expose the public to cancers of the lungs, heart, kidney and liver diseases. “For a long time, PCBs was the cooling liquid used in electrical transformers, until the world found out that this oil was toxic, and is trying to phase it out.
Stay away from radiation exposure, it can cause stillbirth, experts warn pregnant women
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Health experts have cautioned pregnant women against getting exposed to radiation, noting that it can cause stillbirth and other health complications. According to the experts, swallowing or breathing in any substance that has the capability of emitting radiation is dangerous in pregnancy as it could lead to the death of the baby in the womb.
One of the experts, a Professor of Radiation Medicine at the College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Ifeoma Okoye, urged pregnant women to begin to take radiation exposure seriously because it has severe health consequences.
Beads attached to children’s hair could enter their ear, cause infections, dermatologist warns
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A Consultant Dermatologist at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Dr. Uche Ojinmah, has asked parents to exercise caution in the use of beads in making children’s hair, noting that it could cause serious health issues.
The dermatologist warned that children may not only swallow the beads but could also put them inside their ear or nose, adding that such cases are already been seen in hospitals.
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Medical certificates from Ukraine no longer recognized –MDCN
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The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria has announced that it will not recognise any medical degree issued by Ukrainian medical schools from 2022. The MDCN disclosed this in a statement shared on its official Facebook and Twitter pages, noting that it will not honour certificates issued by Ukrainian medical schools until normal academic activities resume. The council also reiterated that online medical degrees are eqully not recognised.
The statement reads, “The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) wishes to inform the General Public that Medical and Dental Degree Certificates issued by Medical Schools from Ukraine from 2022 will NOT be honoured by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria until when normal academic activities resume.
Study says drinking coffee could reduce risk of acute kidney injury
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A recent study has indicated that drinking two to three cups of coffee per day could help lower the risk of acute kidney injury. The study, conducted by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers further revealed that drinking any amount of coffee reduces the risk of acute kidney injury, but drinking two to three cups is more beneficial, according to a report by Science daily.
The director of the Division of Nephrology and professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Chirag Parikh, who was part of the study said, “We already know that drinking coffee on a regular basis has been associated with the prevention of chronic and degenerative diseases including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and liver disease.
Remoulding newborns head wrong, could cause brain damage, physician warns mothers
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A health expert, Dr. Chinonso Egemba, has cautioned mothers and grandmothers against using hot towels to remould the head of newborns, noting that the act could cause brain injury to the infants.
Dr. Egemba, popularly known as ‘Aproko Doctor’ on social media said it is inappropriate for anyone to reshape the head of a newborn. Dr. Egemba stated this in a new post on his Instagram page @aproko_doctor.
Men who drink lots of milk may be more likely to develop prostate cancer than men who don’t, new research finds. When compared to men who consumed just 1 or 2 teaspoons of milk every day, men who drank about 1¾ cups of milk daily were about 27% more likely to develop prostate cancer, a new study showed.
What’s more, they had about a 60% increased risk for developing prostate cancer compared with men who steered clear of dairy altogether. The new study wasn’t designed to say how, or even if, milk consumption ups the risk for prostate cancer, but researchers have their theories.
