Behcet’s disease is a multi-systemic illness, meaning it could affect virtually every system in the body. It is a vasculitis, a disease that arises due to inflammation of blood vessels, which we all know are ubiquitous. Of all vasculitis’s, BD is unique in two ways: It affects all calibre of vessels: small, medium, and large. …
Childhood blindness can be avoided, and, in the post, we are going to be talking about ways that blindness in children can be avoided. Every child has a right to sight In 1997, before the “Vision 2020: Right To Sight” initiative of 1999, World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that about 140 million children worldwide were …
What is UTI? The urinary tract consists of two kidneys, two ureters, a urinary bladder, urethra and prostate. An individual is said to have UTI if there is an infection anywhere along the urinary tract. UTI versus bladder infection/ kidney infection Infection of the kidney is called pyelonephritis. Infection confined to the bladder is cystitis, …
Saturday night palsy-A case study It’s 4am, 1st of July 2015, NYSC Camp Clinic, Wannune, Benue. It was the wake of the Camp’s “Born Fire Night” for the Stream 2 of the 2015 Batch A group of coppers. I heard a knock at the door. Not one of those gentle taps laced with hesitancy and …
This post discusses a case study on a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus. A study carried out in the US showed that, on the average, it could take up to 5 years, or visit to as many as 5 to 10 different doctors, before an autoimmune disease [AID], lupus inclusive, could be properly diagnosed. Below …
When we were kids, Pneumonia was taken to mean “cold in the lungs.” The Igbos would say “oyi bara ya ahu,” which directly translates as “cold has entered his body/chest.” Thus during a cold weather, if you were running around playing without covering yourself up with a sweatshirt, your Moma will come yelling ” I …
Click polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) to read more about PCOS, its symptoms, treatment and management. This is a post discussing a pcos case study. Pcos case study The nurse’s initial review read “G3, P0+2, A0.” It was a form of medical shorthand used to summarize parity– a woman’s “reproductive career”. In this case it meant …
Do you know why you should not ignore pain when felt from any part of your body? Pain is often an indicator of an underlying tissue injury. It is mostly what draws the patient’s attention to an ongoing internal damage, early enough for him to seek help and hence get prompt intervention. Pain is thus …
In this post, we are going to discuss about down syndrome, its causes, types, features (symptoms), complications and risk factors. A case study They have been trying to have another child. But after they had their daughter 10 years ago, 5 years into their marriage, the road to that possibility had just been shut to …
TIA– Transient Ischaemic Attack, is a temporary loss of certain brain functions due to transient narrowing, or occlusion, of blood vessels to the brain leading to transient oxygen deprivation in the brain. It may manifest as a motor phenomenon characterized by paralysis or paresis [weakness], slurring of speech, or deviation of the mouth to one …