In a comment section on IG a girl said she uses Ciprofloxacin for her period cramps.
Ciprofloxacin is an antibiotic and in no way indicated for period cramps. Menstrual cramps is not an infection that you are treating with antibiotics...👇🏿
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This is totally a bad practice and not advisable.
On the long run that can lead to antibiotic resistance.
1. Use heat. 2. Avoid sugar, carbonated beverages,alcohol and caffeine/coffee. Also cut on salts. 3. Reduce stress. 4. Drink loads of water. 5. Exercise regularly. 6. Vitamin E and omega-3 fatty acids are helpful. 👇🏿
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7. Massage with essential oils. 8. If the pain is still severe you can use an NSAID, preferably piroxicam, it is more effective in handling menstrual cramps. Don’t take more than 40mg in a day and make sure to take it with food as it can irritate the stomach.
-Use heating pad (which you can order online) but if you can’t, get a cloth, soak it in hot water (not too hot) press the water out and keep the cloth on your lower abdomen.
Substitute cold water with warm water it will help your body better deal with the menstrual cramps.
Mrs A (real name withheld) who has come of age, was not feeling so good about herself, she was feeling weak, and so fatigued, so she went to the hospital to see a doctor, she told the doctor how she felt and he ran a test, he said she had hyperglycemia...
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...(high blood sugar, i.e diabetes), so he gave her Metformin and Glibenclamide, she went home, took the drugs and slept, one of her sons who was also a doctor but wasn’t in town called and asked of his mom, his brothers said she was fine, that she went to the hospital and...
the doctor gave her drugs, he asked which drugs, he was told, “metformin and glibenclamide”, he was alarmed immediately, he said their mother doesn’t have diabetes that those drugs wasn’t supposed to be given to her. He asked where their mother was, he was told she was sleeping,
Melatonin also known as the “sleep hormone” is a particular hormone which is produced naturally in the body to help us sleep. It regulates the sleep-wake cycle. Some people have insomnia due to a deficiency in this hormone.
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Melatonin also exist as a dietary supplement which is used for short-term treatment of insomnia.
It helps you fall asleep faster and decreases the time you awaken during the night thereby helping you to sleep for a long time.
The common and unserious side effects of this drug include:
Dizziness,headache and nausea.
Less common, some people experience abdominal cramps which stops with time.
Certain people are allergic to this drug and react to it.
18 Interesting Things About Vitamin E you should know
1. Vitamin E is also known as “Tocopherol”. 2. Taking vitamin E by mouth will help reduce anxiety, depression and cravings in some women with PMS (Premenstrual syndrome).
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3. It increases the level of testosterone as such increases sex drive. 4. The required daily intake (RDA) of vitamin E is 15mg(22 IU) for both man and woman.
5. In men, vitamin E increases sperm count and sperm motility. Also, taking it by mouth improves pregnancy rates for men with fertility problems. 6. DO NOT CRUSH OR CHEW VITAMIN E CAPSULES.
Step 2: Get very cold water. The cooler the better.
Step 3: Open the cold water and pour it on your head. To help cool your brain cells. Now, use room temperature water to take your drugs.
Don’t use cold water to take your drugs why ??
Cold water affects the digestive system and the time in which the drug is to be moved to the intestines where it is to be absorbed into the body, but how ?