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21 Dec

HOW TO CALCULATE A PREGNANT WOMAN'S DUE DATE

1. Know the first day of your last menstrual period (LMP).

2. Count forward 9 calendar months from the LMP.

3. Add 7 days & 1 year to the date. That's your due date! See examples below...

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If your cycle is normal 28 days, your due date or expected date of delivery (EDD) is around 40 completed weeks.

This is 280 days or 9 months from the first day you saw blood in your last menstruation (i.e. your last menstrual period, LMP)

If your cycle is longer than 28 days, add the difference between your cycle length & 28 days to your calculated date to compensate.

If it is shorter than 28 days, subtract the difference from your calculated date to compensate.

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14 Dec

FIRST AID FOR NOSEBLEEDS

1. Lean forward
2. Breathe through mouth
3. Pinch soft down part of nose with thumb & forefinger
4. Hold for 10 to 20 minutes
5. Go to hospital if bleeding fails to stop or patient is not stable from the start.

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If bleeding from the nose, don't lean backwards! LEAN FORWARD instead.

This is to avoid blood running down your throat and possibly choking you.

Second, if bleeding from the nose, don't breathe through your nose! OPEN YOUR MOUTH WIDE and breathe through it instead.

This is to avoid choking.

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10 Dec

HOW DANGEROUS IS IT TO SMOKE SHISHA?

In 1 hour of smoking shisha, you inhale the same amount of toxins as a person who smokes 100 sticks of cigarettes. THREAD 🧵

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Like cigarette smoking, toxins in shisha put its smokers at risk of;
• heart diseases
• cancers
• nicotine addiction, and
• other adverse health effects.

So basically, smoking is smoking. Whether you smoke shisha, cigarettes, weed, or spirogyra, once smoke is involved, you're endangering your health.

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8 Dec

HOW TO TREAT AND PREVENT SYPHILIS

Many people have #syphilis but don't know. They keep spreading it to others through kisses, sex, etc.

We're seeing more cases of complicated syphilis in hospitals recently. But it can be treated & prevented... THREAD 🧵

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Syphilis is a Sexually Transmitted Infection, STI.

That means you get it mainly from having unprotected vaginal, anal or oral #sex!

That's why syphilis is spreading most rapidly among our sexually active ladies & guys.

Syphilis is caused by this tiny spiral germ called Treponema palladium.

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27 Nov

HOW TO GIVE FIRST AID TO HOUSEHOLD POISONING VICTIMS

If you see someone poisoned with household items like bleach, fuel, kerosene, acid, drugs or fumes, you can give them this first aid to prevent death before arrival of medical help.

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Household poisoning is a common reason kids are taken to a hospital's accident and emergency.

As an adult, it's extremely crucial that you to know what to do from the time when you suspect someone is poisoned to the time medical care arrives.

So let's get started.

Once a person is poisoned by any substance, the first aid to give them depends on two major things;

• The type of poison, and
• Whether the poison is on their skin, eyes, inhaled or swallowed

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26 Nov

ABNORMAL NIPPLE DISCHARGE

Some people don't breastfeed, but discharge milk from their nipples esp. when touched. This is called #galactorrhea!

On it's own, it's not a disease. But it could be a sign of an underlying disease that needs treatment.

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Have you seen someone who is not breastfeeding discharging milk from their nipples before?

Yeah, so #galactorrhea occurs mostly in women who have been pregnant before and are between 20 and 35 years.

But it can also happen in women of all ages, children and even men (yes, men can discharge breast milk from their tiny nipples too!😊)

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