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HYPERTENTION: THE SILENT KILLER


Mama Niko, my childhood neighbour collapsed while going to her store. We all thought its a product of her many enemies, since she was a known trouble maker earning her the alias Trouble. Niko her son became an orphan and a drop-out as there was nobody to support him. Mama Niko was said to be healthy that morning before her death which begs the question, what could have gone wrong. The only plausible explanation was that she must have died from complications of a chronic medical condition with hypertension being the prime suspect. Complicated hypertension kills silently and suddenly.

Hypertension simply means persistent abnormal elevated blood pressure. Blood pressure readings are comprised of two values: one for systolic blood pressure and the other one for diastolic blood pressure; anything equal to or above 140 over 90 is considered high. It affects approximately 1 billion people worldwide and it is commoner among blacks. Studies shows that about 30 million Nigerians are hypertensive, affecting 1 in 3 men and 1 in 4 women. Unfortunately over 30% of hypertensives are unaware. These sets of people are time bomb waiting to explode just like Mama Niko. Kaboom! And they are gone 6 feet under the ground.

Over 90% of hypertension is idiopathic, the causes are unknown. However, there are some things that increase ones chance of having hypertension which include advance age, black race, stress, sedentary lifestyles, alcohol consumption, smoking, consumption of fatty food and extra large people with BMI greater than 30.

High blood pressure is usually asymptomatic, but when it presents with symptoms, the symptoms are usually vague. Vague symptoms of hypertension include headache, insomnia, blurry vision and palpitations. Untreated or poorly treated hypertension leads to heart failure, heart attack, stroke, blindness, renal failure and many more.

Routine blood pressure check is important (especially for individuals with increased chances) and this can be done in the hospital. One must know his number and it is easier these days that even mushroom chemists now render blood pressure checking service at a cheap price. A way of showing love to your old ones is to make sure they get their blood pressure checked. You might be saving a life. To those who have been diagnosed of hypertension, yet you are not on drug and not attending clinic, I feel sorry for the loved ones youll be living behind. Stroke might just be knocking on the door. Please retrace your steps.

Eat healthy, avoid excessive salt intake, reduce fat intake, quit smoking and limit alcohol consumption and proper management of stress. Extra large ones should emulate the popular comedienne Lepacious Bose. Hit the gym with the aim of maintaining a healthy weight.
We must all know our numbers,
Do not ignore your health,
Visit your doctor today
If you dont look after yourself, you may fall a victim to the silent killer

Ikegift4real:

Some need serious beating to cure there madness, like our politicians only beating will restore them back to normal

I understand your point�� but beating can only worsen the problem

COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS AND FACTS ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS
BY
UGBALI AUGUSTINE
I have no right by anything I do or say to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a mans self respect is a sin. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Misconception simply means a belief, a wrong idea about something or an event.
Mental illness is an illness of the mind. People with a mental illness may behave in strange ways or have strange thoughts in their view or the view of others.
People with a mental illness sometimes have problems dealing with other people, or living what is called “a normal life”. Treatment and certain medications can help people with certain mental illnesses live a better life.
People with mental illness are decent people. They deserve respect like anyone else. Yet sigma, caused by a lack of understanding and knowledge, rears its ugly head and chips away at the persons sense of self, making them feel isolated and ashamed. People who have no knowledge of mental illness need to be receptive to information so they can grow up and get over their false attitudes that are pervasive and damaging to the fragile self esteem of someone with a mental illness.

MYTH#1: "People who need psychiatric care should be locked away in institutions."
FACT: Today, most people can live productive lives within their communities thanks to a variety of supports, programs, and/or medications.

MYTH#2: "A person who has had a mental illness can never be normal."
FACT: People with mental illnesses can, and do, recover to resume normal activities. For example, Kay Redfield Jamieson, who has bipolar disorder, has received treatment and is today Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She has written extensively on mood disorders and manic depressive illnesses.

MYTH#3: "People with mental illnesses can work low-level jobs but aren't suited for really important or responsible positions."
FACT: People with mental illnesses, like everyone else, have the potential to work at any level depending on their own abilities, experience and motivation.

MYTH#4: "Mentally ill persons are dangerous."
FACT: The vast majority of people with mental illness are not violent. In cases when violence does occur, the incident typically results from the same reasons as with the general public, such as feeling threatened or excessive use of alcohol and/or drugs.

MYTH#5: Psychiatric disorders are not true medical illnesses like heart disease and diabetes. People who have a mental illness are just crazy. Or are being punished by the gods for their deeds
FACT: Brain disorders, like heart disease and diabetes, are legitimate medical illnesses. Research shows there are genetic and biological causes for psychiatric disorders, and they can be treated effectively.

MYTH#6: Mental illness is the result of bad parenting.
FACT: Most experts agree that a genetic susceptibility, combined with other risk factors, leads to a psychiatric disorder. In other words, mental illnesses have a physical cause. No one is to blame.

MYTH#7: Depression and other illnesses, such as anxiety disorders, do not affect children or adolescents. Any problems they have are just a part of growing up.
FACT: Children and adolescents can develop severe mental illnesses which can lead to a mental disorder severe enough to cause impairment.

MYTH#8: If you have a mental illness, it will go away. Being treated for a psychiatric disorder means an individual has in some way failed or is weak.
FACT: A serious mental illness cannot be willed away. Ignoring the problem does not make it go away. It takes courage to seek professional help.

HOW YOU CAN COMBAT STIGMA
>Share your experience with mental illness. Your story can convey to others that having a mental illness is nothing to be embarrassed about.
>Help people with mental illness re-enter society. Support their efforts to obtain housing, food and jobs.

>Respond to false statements about mental illness or people with mental illness. Many people have wrong and damaging ideas on the subject. Accurate facts and information may help change both their ideas and actions.
With a little knowledge about mental illness, one might be willing to extend a hand, give a smile of recognition and rekindle the inner light of self respect in a fellow human being.
We need each other. There is hope!!!!!.

COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS AND FACTS ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS
BY
UGBALI AUGUSTINE
I have no right by anything I do or say to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a mans self respect is a sin. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Misconception simply means a belief, a wrong idea about something or an event.
Mental illness is an illness of the mind. People with a mental illness may behave in strange ways or have strange thoughts in their view or the view of others.
People with a mental illness sometimes have problems dealing with other people, or living what is called “a normal life”. Treatment and certain medications can help people with certain mental illnesses live a better life.
People with mental illness are decent people. They deserve respect like anyone else. Yet sigma, caused by a lack of understanding and knowledge, rears its ugly head and chips away at the persons sense of self, making them feel isolated and ashamed. People who have no knowledge of mental illness need to be receptive to information so they can grow up and get over their false attitudes that are pervasive and damaging to the fragile self esteem of someone with a mental illness.

MYTH#1: "People who need psychiatric care should be locked away in institutions."
FACT: Today, most people can live productive lives within their communities thanks to a variety of supports, programs, and/or medications.

MYTH#2: "A person who has had a mental illness can never be normal."
FACT: People with mental illnesses can, and do, recover to resume normal activities. For example, Kay Redfield Jamieson, who has bipolar disorder, has received treatment and is today Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She has written extensively on mood disorders and manic depressive illnesses.

MYTH#3: "People with mental illnesses can work low-level jobs but aren't suited for really important or responsible positions."
FACT: People with mental illnesses, like everyone else, have the potential to work at any level depending on their own abilities, experience and motivation.

MYTH#4: "Mentally ill persons are dangerous."
FACT: The vast majority of people with mental illness are not violent. In cases when violence does occur, the incident typically results from the same reasons as with the general public, such as feeling threatened or excessive use of alcohol and/or drugs.

MYTH#5: Psychiatric disorders are not true medical illnesses like heart disease and diabetes. People who have a mental illness are just crazy. Or are being punished by the gods for their deeds
FACT: Brain disorders, like heart disease and diabetes, are legitimate medical illnesses. Research shows there are genetic and biological causes for psychiatric disorders, and they can be treated effectively.

MYTH#6: Mental illness is the result of bad parenting.
FACT: Most experts agree that a genetic susceptibility, combined with other risk factors, leads to a psychiatric disorder. In other words, mental illnesses have a physical cause. No one is to blame.

MYTH#7: Depression and other illnesses, such as anxiety disorders, do not affect children or adolescents. Any problems they have are just a part of growing up.
FACT: Children and adolescents can develop severe mental illnesses which can lead to a mental disorder severe enough to cause impairment.

MYTH#8: If you have a mental illness, it will go away. Being treated for a psychiatric disorder means an individual has in some way failed or is weak.
FACT: A serious mental illness cannot be willed away. Ignoring the problem does not make it go away. It takes courage to seek professional help.

HOW YOU CAN COMBAT STIGMA
>Share your experience with mental illness. Your story can convey to others that having a mental illness is nothing to be embarrassed about.
>Help people with mental illness re-enter society. Support their efforts to obtain housing, food and jobs.

>Respond to false statements about mental illness or people with mental illness. Many people have wrong and damaging ideas on the subject. Accurate facts and information may help change both their ideas and actions.
With a little knowledge about mental illness, one might be willing to extend a hand, give a smile of recognition and rekindle the inner light of self respect in a fellow human being.
We need each other. There is hope!!!!!.

FACTS YOU NEED TO NOW ABOUT HEPATITIS
Hepatitis refers to an inflammatory condition of the liver and the liver cells!!!
Your liver produces bile to help you digest food and it also removes toxins from your body. Hepatitis causes inflammation and scarring in the liver, making it hard for the liver to do its job.
It is majorly caused by viral infection. Other possible causes include secondary result of medications, drugs, toxins, and heavy alcohol consumption, and an abnormal immune response to a normal body part also known to be autoimmune diseases.
There are five main types of viral hepatitis, they are:
Hepatitis A (HAV)
Hepatitis B (HBV)
Hepatitis C (HCV)
Hepatitis D (HDV)
Hepatitis E (HEV)
>The first three are the most common ones. Hepatitis B and C are the most common causes of liver cirrhosis and cancer.
>Hepatitis A: is spread mainly through food or drinking water that has been contaminated by an infected person.
>Hepatitis B: is transmitted through contact with the blood or other body fluids of an infected person. It can also be passed on from mother to child during childbirth.
>Hepatitis C: is mainly spread through blood to blood contact. In rare cases it can be transmitted during childbirth
>People may have no symptoms of hepatitis while some other people may develop visible symptoms like skin discolouration, poor appetite, pain around the abdomen, vomiting, diarrhoea.
>Some of the signs and symptoms include (but not limited to) tiredness, dark urine, pale and watery stool, unexpected weight loss, yellow skin, yellow eyes, and typical signs of jaundice.
>Drug use can lead to hepatitis. For you that is keen with self-medication all the time. You better watch it now!!
>Hepatitis, especially C is ten times more infectious than HIV/AIDS. Hepatitis C can also be sexually transmitted but the likelihood of contacting the virus is through sharing needles, blood transfusions and other equipment used in injecting drugs. Even unsterilized tattoo needles can lead to a viral hepatitis infection! Take note!!
>80% of people infected with Hepatitis C do not even know that they have it. This is shocking but true!
>Dirty environments, poor sanitation like dirty bathroom, drinking contaminated water, eating food that is not properly cooked, and under-cooked meat of pigs can expose you to a high level ad risk of contracting hepatitis A and E.
>Hepatitis B is usually transferred for mother to child, hence the major reason why a lot of pregnant women are tested for it. If you are pregnant and have not been tested. Quickly rush to your doctor.
>Chronic hepatitis can lead to liver failure and when that begins to happen, your brain can relapse and that can lead to a condition close to dementia. Also, there may be issues with blood clotting since faulty liver leads to fewer protein which helps to clot bloood

PREVENTION
In general, the careful handling of needles and the screening of blood before transfusion are useful ways to prevent hepatitis. Hepatitis A may be prevented by vaccination and the use of immunoglobin in people who are in close contact with patient of HAV infection.
Hepatitis B has a very potent and effective vaccine, which gives a lifelong protection and requires only intermittent booster doses. Hepatitis B immunoglobulin may also protect or attenuate the severity of illness, if given within seven days of exposure to the HBV.
SAFE PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES AGAINST HEPATITIS
Avoid multiple sex partners,
Avoid unprotected sex for unmarried people
Don't share sharps
Stop patronizing the pedicure service hawkers
Have your own clipper or only patronize barbers That observe the correct instrument treatment measures
For health workers. Always use your safety box
Don't recap needles.
Wear gloves when handling infected person or contaminated body fluids
Proper processing of food and water to avoid contamination

BE SINCERE TO YOURSELF NOW. Do you know your hepatitis status?
If yes, please get immunized or seek for Expert management (depending on your status).
If no, get tested today
#Say-No-To-Hepatitis!!!!
#Get-Tested-Today
#Be-Immunized-Against-It
#AUGUSTINE_Loves _You!!!!

jp130:
U may have front page, snake related(lala's stuff). Bt no pictures or videos. Plz teach wit pics for beta understandi, tnx.

I tried uploading picture but it doesn't work. I don't know what is the problem

EARLY MARRIAGE A MENACE IN OUR SOCIETY
BY
UGBALI AUGUSTINE
Throughout the world, marriage is regarded as a moment of joy and celebration but the practice of early marriage gives no such cause for celebration. Early marriage refers to the marriage of the children aged below 18 years. Early marriage is often a forced marriage as it takes place without the consent of both the bride and bridegroom (Child marriage and Forced marriage). Although early marriages affect both the sexes but girls have been a major victim. Its practice has inflicted harmful effects on the parties involved and also the overall society.
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE CAUSES OF EARLY MARRIAGES
Poverty and Economic Transaction
Lack of education
Developing an alliance between two families
Lack of awareness of adverse health consequences
Value of virginity and protection of young girls
Cultural and Religious Norms
The notion of honour and morality is an important factor for the early marriages. It is often considered a shame for the family if the daughter is not a virgin before the marriage. So in order to ensure that the virtue of the girl remains intact, girls are often married earlier, to ensure virginity.
EFFECTS OF EARLY MARRIGE
Early marriage has been one of the main reasons for child labour, unemployment, low literacy rate and poor health standards. There are thousands of cases where girls have to give up their studies for their households that leave them with little ability to earn their own living. Similarly married boys have to give up their education in order to earn for their families
In case of early marriage, the risks of early pregnancy and childbirth are well documented: increased risk of dying, increased risk of premature labour, complications during delivery, low birth-weight, and a higher chance that the newborn will not survive. It can also lead to Vesico Vaginal Fistula (VVF)
Early marriages also have great psychological effects on the life of the girls:Inadequate socialization, discontinuation of education, great physiological and emotional damage due to repeated pregnancies devastates these girls. It is a huge responsibility for the girl to become wife and mother and because young girls are often not prepared for these roles, this heavy burden leaves a serious impact on their psychological welfare, their perceptions of themselves and also their relationship
Finally, these harmful effects caused by the practice of early marriages calls for attention of the policy makers, the government and relevant agency to come up with the laws discouraging early marriages.
Early marriages should be regarded as a violation of the Human Rights and the parties involved in this crime should be charged heavily. Furthermore, the government in each country should make efforts to eliminate poverty and provide education to its population which will result in the decrease in the child marriages.

abdulazeez1002:
You prefer 8 yr old girls doing prostitution

Sir how and what will you feel marrying an 8years old?. Imaging your daughter passing through all the trauma and risk.
Please let's have a rethink.
I don't support early marriage!!!
I don't support "early fumigation"!!!

Let's try and put our children in the right path.

Sofistcatdmoron:
always them ,

Your brain is full of relaxer and akamu. Instead of finding solution to problems u are here talking shi.

Black Mamba |
The adult
black mamba back color olive, brown, gray or khaki times. A young snake is lighter, but not light enough to be confused with the different types of Green Mamba.

The impression of the side rails inside the mouth is dark blue to black as ink. The eyes are dark brown to black, with a silvery white with a yellow border to students. These snakes are strong, but thin in the body: adult specimens are 2.5 to 3 meters (8.2 to 9.8 feet) long, on average, but samples measuring 3.1 to 3.75 m (10 to 12.3 feet) are relatively common, and some specimens have reached lengths of 4.3 to 4.5 meters (14-15 feet). The longest measured scientifically, was captured wild black mamba recorded 4.48 m (14.7 ft), located in Zimbabwe. Body slender yet powerful black mamba adult "can typically weigh 1.6 to 3.1 kg (3.5 to 6.8 lbs.)

Information about the life of snakes in nature is poor, the longer life expectancy registered a Black Mamba prisoner is 14, but the actual time may be much higher maximum. 23-25 scale rows are smooth midsection back subcaudals rarely (21 rows), 248-281 and 109-132 ventrals combined.
temporal bone are variable, usually 2 +3 The black mamba has adapted to a variety of climates, from savannas , forests, farmlands, rocky hillsides, dense forests and swamps are wet. savanna grasslands and forests / bushes that stretches all the way from southern and eastern Europe, Central and Western, Eastern and Southern Africa, Black Mamba the typical habitat. often use Black Mambas abandoned termite mounds and trees hollows for shelter. abandoned termite mounds used particularly when the snake somewhere to cool off when the hill in a kind of "natural air conditioning" the research system.

Territorial As a species, but the Mamba Black is back in its territory or the nest undisturbed. This species is classified as Least Concern (LC) on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (v3.1, 2011).
Black Mambas shows little deviation from the standard methods of communication and perception found in snakes. Like many snakes when they feel threatened, they attack with a series of signals to warn possible breed black mamba attack shown once a year.

The breeding season begins in the spring, which occurs around the month of September in the regions of Africa where these snakes occur, so much of sub-Saharan Africa is in the southern hemisphere. During this period, males fight over females.
mating Beyond males and no-no females interact. Watching his friend, thoroughly inspect your forked tongue flicking around the body.

Humans have two hemipenes. Following a long and successful copulation, the eggs develop in the female body for about 60 days. prefer women abandoned termite mounds as nests. elderly women lay 15-25 eggs , who hide very well and very aggressive protecting. Provide kittens are toxic as adults, but not bitten by a snake venom adult. poison subcutaneous LD values of these "species is very different. Train and Ernst et al. 1996, produced a value of 0.05 mg / kg, and fruit were Engelmann (1981), a value of 0.32 mg / kg, and the branch list Spawls as 0.28 mg / kg and gave a value of Brown 0.12 mg / kg. Although the variation is large, the average value of black mamba venom SC will have about 0.185 mg / kg, making it one of the most venomous snakes in the globe.
It is estimated that only 10 to 15 mg kill a grown man, and their bite provides about 100-120 mg of venom on average, the largest ever recorded was 400 mg of poisoning. British wildlife enthusiast Nathan Layton was in Hoedspruit, a small town near Kruger National Park, bitten by a black mamba and girl died after being bitten.

The mortality rate depends on several factors such as the health, size, age and mental health of the victim, the penetration of one or both of the amount injected fangs snake venom, poison pharmacokinetics, the bite position and proximity to major blood vessels. At present, a polyvalent antivenom South African Institute for Medical Research (SAIMR) prepare to treat all Black Mamba bites of different places. Why is a poison bitten by a black mamba is no longer a certain death sentence. If bitten, often severe neurotoxicity. Local tissue damage appears to be relatively infrequent and low gravity in most cases of poisoning Black Mamba .

If you reject a threat, the black mamba offers multiple shots, the injection of large amounts of toxic virulent poison for each shot, often landing bites on the body or head, unlike other snakes. Death by suffocation due to paralysis of the respiratory muscles. Due to various factors, including toxicity and high yields of their venom, the fact that untreated bites a mortality rate of 100%, the high level of aggression, speed , agility and size, many herpetologists agree the Black Mamba is the deadliest snake species and aggressive world

abdulazeez1002:
What of early fornication?

Also a problem sir.

EARLY MARRIAGE A PROBLEM IN OUR society
Throughout the world, marriage is regarded as a moment of joy and celebration but the practice of early marriage gives no such cause for celebration. Early marriage refers to the marriage of the children aged below 18 years. Early marriage is often a forced marriage as it takes place without the consent of both the bride and bridegroom (Child marriage and Forced marriage).
Although early marriages affect both the sexes but girls have been a major victim. Its practise has inflicted harmful effects on the parties involved and also the overall society.
The notion of honour and morality is an important factor for the early marriages. It is often considered a shame for the family if the daughter is not a virgin before the marriage. So in order to ensure that the virtue of the girl remains intact, girls are often married earlier, to ensure virginity.
Early marriage has been one of the main reasons for child labour, unemployment, low literacy rate and poor health standards
There are thousands of cases where girls have to give up their studies for their households that leave them with little ability to earn their own living. Similarly married boys have to give up their education in order to earn for their families
In case of early marriage, the risks of early pregnancy and childbirth are well documented: increased risk of dying, increased risk of premature labour, complications during delivery, low birth-weight, and a higher chance that the newborn will not survive
Early marriages also have great psychological effects on the life of the girls:Inadequate socialization, discontinuation of education, great physiological and emotional damage due to repeated pregnancies devastates these girls
It is a huge responsibility for the girl to become wife and mother and because young girls are often not prepared for these roles, this heavy burden leaves a serious impact on their psychological welfare, their perceptions of themselves and also their relationship
Finally, these harmful effects caused by the practice of early marriages calls for attention of the policy makers, the government and relevant agency to come up with the laws discouraging the early marriages.
Early marriages should be regarded as a violation of the Human Rights and the parties involved in this crime should be charged heavily. Furthermore, the government in each country should make efforts to eliminate poverty and provide education to its population which will result in the decrease in the child marriages

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HELP SAVE THE LIFE OF BENJAMIN YOHANNA
We passionately appeal to family, friends and well meaning individuals to help save our brother, Mr Benjamin Yohanna who is diagnosed with Kidney disease. Both kidneys is said to have failed. Since the diagnosis at the Yusuf Dantsoho Memorial Hospital (Hajia Amina Ahmed Monrovia Renal Center) Tudun Wada, Kaduna in April 2019, he has undergone and still undergoes dialysis Three (3)times a week... He currently requires a Kidney transplant to save his life. The said transplant will cost approximately 10,000,000 naira (Ten million naira) for surgery within Nigerian and even more outside Nigeria. We solicit your kind support. Whatever amount you give is not too small. The good Lord will bless you as you join us in saving the life of Ben.
Benjamin Yohanna is a graduate of computer science from the University of Abuja. He is a promising young man with great potentials, a true servant of God who has dedicated all his youthful life in service to God. You could check him up in his Face book account@Benjamin Yohanna. This is no scam..
May the good Lord bless you as you reach out to save our brother Benjamin. Below are pictures of dialysis he has undergone for the past 4months and evidence of payments of same.
If you are led to reach out to him, you could send your help through the account details below:
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FIRST BANK
BENJAMIN YOHANNA
or call the following numbers :
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Thank you and God bless you for your prayers and kind support

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good info.
I wish all the commercial car driver will see this post and learn.

AmericanDad:
He is a drug pusher. Blood money i do not envy. Such men don't end up well

do not judge so quickly

make them kwontinewe.
see d car weh I buy yesterday. abeg I need driver

This isn't the end of life.. Why trying to kill yourself for something that doesn't worth it?

thanks for that info/advice. well done

hahahaha NYSC. wahala . but it's fun sha

hmmmmmm this is serious

hmmmmmm. very funny