These are common effects of Harmattan. It can make your life miserable if you allow it.
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1. Drink lots of fluids.
3litres everyday.
Water, tea and fruit juice is okay.
Fluids prevent dehydration, dry skin, dry mouth, cracked lips and dry eyes.
Best to stay away from soft drinks.
They end up make you dehydrated even further.
2. Use a lip balm to avoid cracked lips.
3. Take lots of vegetables and fruits.
Weed is NOT a vegetable. Let’s be guided. By vegetables, I mean leafy greens like the ones we use for soups. Vegetables help your immune system.
Bananas (not the black one o 🙄), oranges, pineapple, watermelons, apples, pear etc are good.
Take a bottle of water with you everywhere you go. Like a small water bottle- it helps stay hydrated and reminds you always of need to drink water.
Put fruits in your car, in your bag (and child’s school bag), on your table at work and at home. That’s a good way not to forget.
For dust,
Try to wear a facemask or use a face towel especially when the dust gets so much.
Keep your doors and windows closed.
Especially if your house is around places where there’s a lot of untarred roads or dusty areas.
You must do your best to avoid dust in this period.
For people who get allergies;
Try your best to stay warm,
Wear thicker clothes if you have to,
Avoid dust as much as you can,
Use antihistamine tablets like loratadine or cetirizine- one 10mg tablet a day is okay. It help prevents allergies and assists you to cope with it.
If you have running nose, blocked nose or headache,
Drink lots of fluids,
Use paracetamol 2tablets every eight hours for few days if the headache is serious,
Rest, avoid stress,
If you get allergies- as earlier advised, use antihistamine tablets like loratadine or cetirizine.
Use good moisturising lotions to keep your skin moist- it helps you avoid dry cracking skin. Get good lip gloss and a lip balm too. It helps you prevent your lips from getting sore and peeling.
Take some vitamin c too if you can get some. That would really help. Ask at pharmacy.
Stay indoors this harmattan as much as you can. This is NOT the time to aimlessly walk around your estate looking for roasted corn at 11pm.
Stay in your house. This helps you avoid lots of dust outside. And wear thick clothes to stay warm- do two/three layers if you have to.
Get lemon/lime and put in warm water. Add some honey if you have.
You can drink this at intervals.
It’s a good way to stay hydrated.
And it also prevents sore dry throat.
It will NOT harm you if you try it out.
Wear socks, hand gloves and a headwarmer to stay warm. It’s okay.
I hope you now know how to cope with harmattan. Try to follow this simple tips/ it would save you a lot of misery this harmattan.
It may also save you from an avoidable chest infection, hospital admission and hospital bills.
Please be wise.
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Thank you.
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So I took the Covid19 Vaccine today.
I got it at exactly 12:28pm UK Time.
They gave me the Pfizer Vaccine.
It’s currently over one hour now and I still feel very okay. Just a very mild ache at the point the injection went in.
I will use this thread to write updates...
So when you get there
They ask questions before giving you:
Do you have Covid now?
Did you have a positive Covid test recently?
Do you have any serious allergies?
Do you use any blood thinners medications?
Then if it is Pfizer,
They advise that you stay 15mins AFTER getting it.
It was a retired GP (a medical doctor) that gave me the vaccine. She was very nice.
She said they ask about recent Covid infection (or recent positive test) because if they give the vaccine and the person deteriorated, it may be hard to tell if it is due to Covid or the vaccine.
Reddington Hospital has confirmed on the night of October 20, 2020 they attended to so many patients with gunshot wounds from #EndSARS Lekki Toll Gate.
They said the victims were so many it was a “crowd” that overwhelmed both their Lekki and VI hospitals.
Big shame on the govt.
That’s not even the craziest part of the news. The surgeon speaking on behalf of Reddington hospital said more victims kept coming to the hospital the next day and even the days after.
He called it a “mass gathering” at the hospital by the victims.
Again, big shame on the govt.
That same night, Jide Sanwoolu was at Reddington and other hospitals in Lekki where victims were rushed to in floods.
It’s completely insane the horrific massacre and shooting that happened that night- over 100 days now- and nobody has been punished for it.
Many nigerians who are ambidextrous were initially left-handed but were beaten black and blue to use their right hand.
We also beat people for giving/taking things with left hand.
One day we will discuss how tyranny, abuse and oppression is carried out in the name of “culture”.
Until you start to talking to lefties and ambidextrous people in Nigeria, you will never know their pains.
Many of these people were badly traumatised and tyrannised as children SIMPLY FOR BEING LEFT HANDED.
And till today, many families and schools still continue this madness.
How does giving/taking things with left hand equal to “disrespect”? It’s insane. And it’s funny how some deranged people use this “culture” and they will get a ruler/cane to beat a child silly for this.
But offer same people a huge cheque with left hand, they collect it.
Clowns.
If you recently had sex and
You have:
•foul vagina discharge
•vagina/anus itching
•lower tummy pain
•vagina blisters/rashes
•anus/vagina lumps
•vagina bleeding
•pain when you pee
You have an STD.
If you ignore it,
It can make you infertile later in life.