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27 Dec

A quick reminder of your genotype compatibility

AA+AA=✅
AA+AS=✅
AA+AC=✅
AA+SS=✅
AA+SC=✅
AA+CC=✅

AS+AS=❌
AS+AC=❌
AS+SS=❌
AS+SC=❌
AS+CC=❌
SS+SC=❌
SS+SS=❌
SS+CC=❌
SC+SC=❌
SC+CC=❌
CC+CC=❌

In short, BOTH partners shouldn't have a 'C' and/or 'S'!

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A person with AS or AC has sickle cell trait, while one with SS or CC has the disease.

Some SC patients develop 'Hemoglobin SC disease' a type of sickle cell anaemia.

But they often have fewer crisis & live longer (average lifespan of 65 yrs) compared to SS patients (48 yrs).

Some of you might have found love during this festive season and are contemplating tying the knots in marriage.

Knowing your genotype compatibility as partners is extremely crucial.

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@firstdoctorr

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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@firstdoctorr

20 Dec

Last night I received a text that Dr. Matthias Nnadi, my med school teacher & a consultant neurosurgeon at UCTH, died of acute exacerbation of asthma. Instantly, tears welled up my eyes.

But it's the details of his death that were more shocking...
#RIPDrNnadi

His wife sent an ambulance to pick him up in the thick dusty traffic where he was stuck.

It took more than 3 hrs to arrive due to extremely bad roads & traffic around Odukpani area in Cross River.

The ambulance that came for Dr. Nnadi didn't even have oxygen and by the time he arrived the A&E he was already blue, lying lifeless on the stretcher!

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@firstdoctorr

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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@firstdoctorr

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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@firstdoctorr

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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