Smoking Alert!

It was 7.10am on a working day, a well dressed young man was puffing smoke!
My boo was like, ADDICTION, VERY BAD.
My thoughts: What if he is diabetic?
He might have heard but not informed of the hazards of smoking.

Some people many times refer to smokers who are close to their hundreds as an evidence of smoke not so harmful, my answer is, he have been fine with smoking, what if you keep copying him and become a victim of your own habit.

Again others say something must kill a man, well there is no problem with been ready and facilitating your death, my concern is disturbing the people in your life with the burden of the sickness you will create before you eventually die.
You want to wreck peoples pocket before your exist abi, Olorun ma je!

Picture stories of Precious Diabetes Foundation's activities

Warning signs of diabetes complication

*photo: viewers digression is advised

Diabetes is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease, blindness and amputation in adults.
Warning signs of diabetes complications are:
1. Eye problems eg blur vision or flashes
2. Tingling or numbness on your feet and hands.
3. Wounds or sores that don't easily heal

4. Chest pain
5. Tiredness

What can you do?

Keeping your blood glucose as normal as possible is the best way to avoid complications.
In cases where the complication have developed already, lowering your blood glucose level will help prevent further progression of the complication.

#diabetescomplications
#Diabetestalks

Diabetes and Erectile Dysfunction.

Quite a number of people who have erectile dysfunction don't want to talk about it, not even to a health care provider.

Erectile dysfunction is to mean the inability of the penis to achieve firm and sustained erection, sufficient to sexual intercourse.
Put in broken English, erectile dysfunction na when penis no stand well enough during sex.

Premature ejaculation is different from erectile dysfunction. That you experienced occasional erection problem is not to mean you have erectile dysfunction, but it could get worst if not checked.
Men who have diabetes and above the age of 40 are at the risk of developing erectile dysfunction.

Causes of erectile dysfunction in men with diabetes are:
- blood vessel damage
- nerve damage
-low testosterone
*cardiovascular disease and neuropathy are risk factors for erectile dysfunction.


Other causes of erectile dysfunction are:
*Alcohol
*Smoking
*Medications for treating high blood pressure, peptic ulcer, depression and anxiety.
* Stress
*Anxiety

Diagnosis
Your health care provider may ask you to see a neurologist. Test that can be conducted are:
-Ultrasound
- Drug test: this involve injecting drugs into the penis to check if the cause is blood vessel damage related.

Prevention of erectile dysfunction
*Keep your blood glucose level close to normal  as possible
* Quite smoking
* Quit or reduce alcohol intake

Treatment
*Medication
*Stress therapy
*Psychotherapy
*Testosterone injections
Some supplements have been found to be very helpful though they are quite expensive.

Can a child have diabetes?

O yeah, diabetes can occur at any stage of life. The type of diabetes that occur in children is called type 1 diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes or insulin dependent diabetes.
 After asthma, diabetes is the second most common chronic disease in children- American Diabetes Association.

Photo: Know your blood glucose level campaign, April 2011 at Akwanga, Nasarawa State, Nigeria.

People with type 1 diabetes are unable to produce insulin (the substances that unlocks the body cells so they can take up glucose from the blood stream), therefore glucose pile up in the blood, causing diabetes.

Symptoms
1. Extreme thirst
2. Extreme hunger
3. Blurred vision
4. Frequent urination
5. Tiredness

 Causes
Scientists are of the opinion that the cause of this lack of insulin is because, for some unknown reasons, the body's immune system in these patients sees the cells (islets of Langerhans in the pancrease) where insulin is produced as foreign body and begin to destroy it, this destruction may take months or years.

Risk factors include:
1. Family history and gene
2. Drugs and chemicals
3. Viruses
4. Race and ethnicity
5. Auto antibodies

Management
Most kids just like adults are not diagnosed early, some even go into coma as a result of very high glucose levels.
People with type 1 diabetes usually get very ill if their diabetes are not well managed.
Management, unlike type 2 depends largely on insulin therapy. Exercise and nutrition also compliments the insulin here.

Contrarily to type 2, juvenile diabetes cannot be prevented. If your child is having any symptoms of diabetes, in addition to the regular malaria and typhoid test in hospitals, let him or her take a #bloodglucosetest, it helps.

URINE TEST AND IT'S SIGNIFICANCE

URINE TEST
Most times when people hear 'bring your urine' they think of pregnancy test or infection. While this is correct, that urine can be used for testing pregnancy or infection, I like you to know that's not the only thing you can test urine for. Urine can also be used for culture to identify bacteria or can be screened for many other parameters.

Urinalysis as it is medically called is a simple way of screening the urine for some actors of medical importance. These actors include:

1. Blood: finding blood in the urine of a woman may not pose any medical threat if she is menstruating. Blood in urine can indicate an infection or other problem with the kidney.

2. Glucose: when found in urine, this is not a diagnosis for diabetes. We Will trash this in our next blog. But sometimes little glucose in urine is not a great source of worry, like other parameters when present it is an indication for further test especially blood glucose test.

3. Protein: an indication for either infection, hypertension, liver or kidney problem.

4. Leucocyte: these are white blood cells. Their presence in urine calls for urine culture.

5. Ketone: I refer to this test as a glucose starvation indicator. Ketone bodies are the by product release when the body uses fat as an alternative source of energy in the absence of glucose. This is evident in starvation, prolonged exercise, low carbohydrate intake or in diabetes (due to lack of uptake of glucose from the blood).

6. Bilirubin: indicator of problem with the  red blood cells (in jaundice) or the liver.

7. Urobilinogen: same as bilirubin indicating problem with the liver or jaundice(there are different types of jaundice as a result of its different causes). Also urobilinogen presence in urine can be as a result of treatment with drugs that acidify urine.
*Normally the urine contain little amount of urobilinogen, but positive urinalysis test for urobilinogen and bilirubin calls for liver function test and of course other test such as hepatitis test and blood count.

Other parameters in urinalysis are:

8. Ascorbic acid
9. PH
10. Specific gravity

Make every time PLEASURABLE.

Recently I participated in the last world TB and HIV Day events. Attractive gifts was given out, the most attractive gift in that package for some people was the #sexlubricant.

They keep asking what its used for.
So who else on this platform don't know what sex lubricants are? I will tell you;
For the purpose of our cultural and moral values I will limit this write up to only SEX LUBRICANT USES FOR VAGINAL INTERCOURSE. (Understood?)

So what are sex lubricants?
They are specialized agents used for the purpose of reducing friction or to aid easy penetration during sexual contact. There are various forms this products are made from, it could be oil base, water based or silicone based.

WATER BASED LUBRICANTS
These are considered the best because they are water soluble meaning they are easily dissolved in water. This quality makes water based lubricants easy to wash after the show.

OIL BASED LUBRICANTS
These include lubricants such as petroleum jelly. It is usually recommended for those who don't have need for condom because oil based lubricants can cause breakage of the condom due to loss of elasticity of the latex.

USE OF SEX LUBRICANTS
I remembered one of those sections during my marriage counseling, someone narrated how a married woman was always complaining about pain and bruises resulting from dryness, and she asked;
1.Must someone always do it just because she is married?
2. What if am not in the mood?
Well if you (women ), agree with me, our default lubricant (saliva) does not really do a good job, thus reason for bruises. Lubricants do not only wet the environ but also turn you on into fiery mood.

Method of its application is not defined. Apply it the way it will suit you, but believe me you should only use it when you have need for it.

 A lot of people have wrong notion about sex lubricants, men in most cases feel younger women should be sexually active and so don't require any form of lubrication- wrong!
 There are many reasons why you may not have a pleasurable time, for example: tiredness, lack of arousal, emotional Stress, anxiety, financial issues, chronic alignment( like diabetes), fertility sample production (the only masturbation i excuse for men) and so many others. Sex lubricants also help women who are in their menopause. Good lubricants will do a good job if strategically applied, so suffering and smiling is unnecessary.
I will draw my curtain here, leave questions and contributions in the comment box.
#sexlubricants
#pleasurablelubricants
#easefriction