Your ears usually do a good job cleaning themselves & Don’t need any Extra care.
The only reason you should clean them is to soften or remove earwax from the outside of your ear canals. And if you’re going to do that, you’ll need to know how to do it carefully.
- The Ear produces a substance called CERUMEN (Earwax). It’s NORMAL for your body to produce it, and it actually helps PROTECT and LUBRICATE your ears.
- If you didn’t have earwax, your ears would probably be ITCHY and DRY.
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- EARWAX also has ANTIBACTERIAL Properties, which means your ears are SELF-CLEANING.
- EARWAX is like a FILTER for your ears, keeping out harmful things like dirt and dust, and trapping them so they don’t go deep inside.
- EARWAX ISN’T formed in the deep part of your ear canal;
it’s made in the OUTER SECTION.
So, the only REASON you’d have an earwax #BLOCKAGE is because you tried to clean your ears with a Cotton-bud (or co) and PUSHED the WAX in DEEPER.
SWABBING or STICKING POINTY OBJECTS inside your ear can cause other SERIOUS PROBLEMS such as 👇:
- Infection
- Rupture of the Eardrum
- Significant Hearing Loss
SHOULD YOU CLEAN YOUR EARS ???
Ideally, NO!. Your Ear canals doesn't need cleaning.
BUT if TOO MUCH earwax builds up and starts to CAUSE SYMPTOMS (Cerumen Impaction).
This means earwax has completely filled your ear canal and it can happen in one or both EARS.
1.) More than 60% of the patients I see on a daily basis hv HYPERTENSION. Most of them didn’t even know, they actually came for other reasons & it got diagnosed by accident
Some knew of it as part of routine medical
2.) Hypertension, RARELY has noticeable symptoms. But if untreated, it increases your RISK of serious problems such as Heart attacks, Heart failure, Strokes, Vision loss, Sexual Dysfunction & Kidney failure.
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3.) The only way to know is to check your blood pressure regularly.
Black people like Africans & Afro-Americans have a higher risk of having high BP.
*In Nigeria alone, there are more than 1.6 million cases a year.
4.) #Disclaimers : Having a High blood pressure on one reading
Undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.
People will carry you the way you carry yourself. All you need to Confidence.
Because Confidence breeds more confidence!
A Thread 👇
Hold yourself to the value you want others to hold you at and never give discounts for the value you provide.
The moment you restrict your esteem/price, the others would hop to hunt down.
Establish clear boundaries and rules, emphasize on the value you're providing.
- Predisolone & Dexamethasone Tablets, i only take them 3 times a day for the BONE FRACTURE.
PHARMACIST : Who prescribed it for you? 😯
PATIENT : One of my Neighbours. He told me he takes them for his BODY PAIN 🙄
PHARMACIST : Sir, these drugs can be FATAL considering
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the fact that you are Diabetic & Hypertensive 😕
Let me EXPLAIN 👇👇👇👇👇👇
SIDE EFFECTS OF...
C - Cushing's syndrome
O - Osteoporosis & tendon rupture*
R - Retarded growth
T - Thin skin
I - Immunosuppression (Infection🔝)
C - Cataracts
O - Oedema
PATIENT: Doc, i went to bed feeling very well, only to wake up the next day with a very painful & stiff neck. I think it's my village people that caused it.
PHARM: It's not ur village people Ma'am, It’s a medical condition called TORTICOLLIS (Wry Neck, Cervical Dystonia)
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PATIENT : Does it kill people because I'm very scared 😰
PHARMACIST : It can be very uncomfortable but it’s RARELY dangerous or life threatening.
SYMPTOMS OF WRY NECK :
•Pain on one side of your neck
•Neck muscle stiffness in that area
•Difficulty to straighten neck
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•Pain may spread to back of your head or to your shoulder.
•Restricted neck movement particularly on one side.
•Sensitive painful muscles on the neck.
WHAT CAUSES WRY NECK?
In most people, the cause is not known. It can happen in people with no previous neck complaints.
Crab mentality is a metaphor used to describe a human way of thinking based on a pattern of behaviour noticed in crabs.
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If you put a crab in a bucket alone, it will climb out, but if you put a bunch of crabs in a bucket, they will pull back any crab who tries to escape.
It appears as if the crabs are thinking that if they are going down, they're taking everyone with them.
This probably isn't malicious in crabs, but crab mentality in humans, certainly is.