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25 Mar

What your urine colour says about your health and what you should do

1. Clear
2. Light yellow
3. Dark yellow
4. Light pink/bright red
5. Dark brown
6. Green/blue
7. Orange
8. Purple
9. Cloudy or murky

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Urine colour often depends on 5 things:

• what you eat
• the medications you’re taking
• how much water your drink
• disease conditions, &
• exercise

You should be concerned if the colour of your pee is significantly abnormal.

Clear urine (clear as sweat)

It means you might have:
• Taken excess fluids (over-hydration).

So you need to drink a little less. Although hydration is good, drinking excess water when you are already well-hydrated can make you lose electrolytes from your body.

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23 Mar

A young footballer got hit in his groin by a kick. He started having severe pain and swelling in his scrotum.

He was rushed into the emergency room and wheeled straight into the theatre for a surgery to save his testis. He had testicular torsion.

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Testicular torsion happens when your testicle rotates, twisting your spermatic cord (the tube which contains the vessels that bring blood to your testis).

This leads to reduced blood flow to the testis, causing sudden and often severe pain, redness and swelling.

Symptoms of testicular torsion

1. Sudden, severe scrotal pain
2. Scrotal swelling
3. Lower tummy pain
4. Nausea and vomiting
5. Frequent peeing
6. Feeling feverish
7. Abnormal positioning of your testicle: usually higher than normal or at an unusual angle

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22 Mar

9 causes of low sperm count/quality you should know

1. Infections
2. Varicocele
3. Heat & Stress
4. Drugs
5. Being too fat
6. Hormones
7. Other medical issues
8. Alcohol & smoking
9. Chemicals

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Low sperm count or #oligospermia means the semen a man ejaculates during an orgasm contains fewer sperm than normal. Medically, it means having less than 15 million sperm in 1ml of your semen.

If there's no sperm at all in your semen, it is called #azoospermia.

Having low sperm count significantly lowers your chances of being able to impregnate a woman.

Many families have been torn apart because of the resulting infertility.

Unfortunately, in some cases, people erroneously think the cause of the infertility is the woman.

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19 Mar

HOW TO TREAT YEAST INFECTION AT HOME

Vaginal discharge that is whitish, thick, cheesy, or feels like yogurt, is often due to yeast infection or vulvovaginal candidiasis. You can treat it at home.

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Yeast infection of the vagina or vulvovaginal candidiasis can happen when the healthy yeast which usually lives in your vagina grows out of control.

9 out of every 10 women will have a yeast infection at some point in their life.

What causes yeast infection?

1. Abusing antibiotics: this lowers the amount of #lactobacillus (the good bacteria in the vagina) allowing the yeast to outgrow
2. Douching
3. Hormone imbalance
4. Weak immune system e.g. diabetes, stress, lack of sleep, pregnancy, cancer, HIV/AIDS

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17 Mar

A woman's hymen can not tell you much about her virginity. Stop depending on it to judge if she's a virgin or not.

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The hymen is a membrane covering the vagina opening. Its shape and size varies in people.

It normally doesn't cover the vaginal opening completely to allow discharges/menstrual flow to pass through.

If imperfonate (covers vagina completely), surgery is done to open it up a bit

In many cultures, however, people believe that once a woman's hymen is torn, she's been "disvirgined'

They also believe that when a woman is deflowered, she must bleed from the vagina to show that her hymen has broken (which proves her virginity).

In most cases, both are false!

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16 Mar

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT STROKE

Stroke is when there is poor blood flow to the brain causing brain damage and rapid symptoms.

It's a medical emergency. You need to act FAST to save the remaining parts of the brain as every second counts!

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There are 2 main types of stroke;

1. #Ischemic stroke: due to blockage of a blood vessel in the brain

2. #Hemorrhagic stroke: due to bleeding directly into the brain or into the space between the membranes that cover it (meninges)

These 8 factors can make you more likely to have stroke

1. High blood pressure: No. 1
2. Obesity
3. Diabetes
4. Smoking
5. High blood cholesterol
6. Kidney disease
7. Irregular heart beat (atrial fibrillation)
8. Previous mini-stroke (stroke symptoms that lasted less than 24hrs)

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