How to Protect Your Liver
The liver is a large organ (the second largest organ in the body after the skin) located in the abdomen and could weigh up to 1500g, it is built like a wedge or pyramid and pinkish brown in colour and divided into segments, with each segment having its own blood supply It carries out quite […]
How To Fight Body Odor
This condition can be quite embarrassing, to say the least, and most people who have it are oblivious to it. Having a body odour is mainly related to sweat and the bacteria that break down the proteins in the sweat into smaller acids to give off a certain smell, these bacteria live on our skin. […]
What is Low sperm count and what can I do about it?
The testicles make several million sperms a day and there can be as much as 20 to 300 million sperms in every millilitre of semen that is released during ejaculation. When the amount of sperms in each millilitre of semen drops below 15 million, we call it oligospermia or in simpler terms, “low sperm count”. […]
What you need to ask your doctor before that procedure
Often times, surgery or some procedures will need to be done to correct some health conditions that you may have. You would need to be as informed as possible about all the risks and benefits, after all, this procedure will be performed on you. Here is a list of what you need to know: […]
Asthma: What you need to know about it
Asthma is a chronic disease affecting the airways of a person’s lungs where the airways become inflamed, narrowed and filled with mucus, making breathing difficult. It is very common and affects both children and adults. It has no cure but can be controlled effectively with appropriate management. What causes Asthma? It is caused by a […]
Cutting the vagina during childbirth: Episiotomy
Sometimes, in order to allow labour to proceed smoothly, the vagina opening will have to have to be widened to allow this. This method of widening the vagina involves a cut that is made through the vagina and is called an episiotomy. This may happen because a baby is too big or that the labour […]
How many times should I go for a health check?
Are general health checks important? Many people do not think it is important to go for regular health checks and only visit the hospital when they fall ill or when they need a pre-employment health check or something of that sort. On the contrary, we take the cars we drive to the mechanic shop […]
What Vaccines can Adults get?
Almost everyone knows how important it is for children to get immunized but we fail to realize that adults need vaccines too. Vaccination is a preventive mechanism that enables your body strong enough to fight off infections and protects you from deadly diseases. There are a number of vaccines available for adults. Some of them […]
How to Control Hypertension
Your heart beats about 60-80 times in a minute when you are resting, it takes a particular amount of pressure to push the blood from the heart through all the vessels in the body when this pressure is increased to abnormal levels, we say that such a person has hypertension. You should also know that […]
How to treat Premature Ejaculation
Certain times ejaculation (the release of semen from the penis during sex can occur faster than you or your partner would like, when this happens, it can be called quite embarrassing for many men and disappointing for their partners. When this happens, we call it “premature ejaculation” You should know that this is quite common […]