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Family / Re: My Baby Is Being Strongly Affected By Jaundice, I Need Help And Solution. by johnflo(m): 4:19pm On Jun 29, 2022
I am moved to contribute my part to make sure your innocent baby does not become incapacitated for something he/she knows nothing about.
I am naturally social media-aversed (I rarely comment, due to personal reasons) , but this is one of the exceptions where I often break my rules. I don't want your baby to suffer the consequence of untreated/maltreated jaundice which include athetoid cerebral palsy, hearing loss, bad vision, and worse off intellectual disabilities.
From the earlier comments, I have read a lot of wonderful counsels from loving fathers and mothers who have witnessed or experienced these before. At this point, I would not condemn any of the advice given, but I would give my honest advice based on my personal experience too then you can decide.
My son was delivered strong, bouncing (5kg) and almost health (I said almost because he too was diagnosed of jaundice immediately after birth in one of the popular private hospitals in Lagos, that was the only health issue). He was immediately placed under Pediatrician care 24/7 (he was being checked twice daily by consultant Pediatrician).
As others said, they were only checking for his bilirubin blood level on a daily basis, it was not supposed to go outside of a certain level and we were told if the level does not become normal after 7 days of treatment, I would need to give him blood (blood transfusion), to make sure the billrubin is controlled otherwise, our baby might suffer the consequence. I was lucky to be surrounded by trained Medical Doctors and Pharmacists in my family and they gave me stern warning not to
discharge the baby against the Pediatrist advice. My wife was on hospital bed recovering from delivery while our baby boy was undergoing phototherapy for jaundice, I was hardly able to control my emotions seeing my son constantly blindfolded and placed under some controlled phototherapy glass cubicle 24/7 for more than 7 days. The only time we remove him is for his mother to breastfeed him and for Pediatrists check and blood tests. I wept daily, not because I could not afford the treatment, or because I can’t donate blood for my son but because I don’t want him to have any health issue, and I wouldn’t want my wife 9month great effort and courage to be in vain.
To make the matters worse, across our room is another jaundice patience who had to undergo blood transfusion, I prayed ours does not get to that, and if it does, that God should make everything to be successful. I summoned courage and was only praying.
Fast forward to 7 days after birth, after the final test, the first Pediatrician checked the final result and they realized the bilrubin level was just around the safe point, about 0. something higher, he said we needed to go for blood transfusion, but gave a caveat that whatever the senior pediatrician says is the final. Later that day, the senior Pediatrician came (a very old man, over 70 years), he checked the result and looked at me, he told me, the result is just around the safe point, but a bit higher, do we go for blood transfusion? I responded with a pounding heart, sir, I will go with your experienced advice, then he paused for around 30 seconds, he wrote some things down in the result sheet , (I feared the worse), then he told the nurse and the other Doctor present there, this is not so bad, I guess we should give it 1 extra day of treatment to decide, an lo and behold, on the 8th day, the bilrubin level became normal, however he still told us to do one day of extra treatment. And so after the 9th day, the result was still the same as it was on the 8th day, just below the normal level. So, he told us from his final check, we are safe to go home, and that we can be placing the boy under early morning sun by the window for 30 minutes and come later for further checks. We went home, did what he told us, and went for additional check after about 2 weeks and our son was declared free.

I intentionally wrote the above long story to let you know of my experience and how God eventually helped us (through the brilliant Doctors). Those 9 days were the longest days I have ever experienced in life.

I have also witnessed those whose child had jaundice and were only treated at home with sunlight and some local concoction.

My strong advice: I supposed your child must have been diagnosed immediately after birth and must have already gotten some treatment before you were discharged. If not, please please and please, take your child to at least any general hospital (please look for the money by any legal means), and get treatment for him, even if he has been treated before.

You should not take chance with "just a home-made treatment" for such a sensitive baby (judging for how long your baby has had it, so you would not regret it later, that is not to say home treatment does not work, like I said, we also applied home treatment after proper medical care. I pray your baby get well soon and you are back here to share your positive experience.

PS: This piece was written in haste due to "the precious life" involved and so there was not time to check syntax and semantics. Peace.

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Business / Re: I Need Advice On How To Start Dealing In Stocks by johnflo(m): 8:38am On Jul 10, 2007
Hi,friend,I presently work in a Capital market,please and please it is not adviceabloe to keep your stock certificates at home at all,either you want to trade with it or for keep.But I would even rather advice you to trade with it due to a lot of factors which I would be ready to explain to you if you can contact me throuh my email address.

Let me even tell u that there are a lot of pple nowadays that only do business in buying and selling of shares either long or short term basis.Pls your shares can fetch u fetch un alot of money u can never imagine just if u do the right thing,then u av to beware of 419 capital markets.I advice u not to trade by proxy,but go yourself to a reputable stockbroking firm like ours(there are others anyway).I ll be ready to help u more if u can contact me through any of my contact.

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Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Study In Ukraine! by johnflo(m): 4:58pm On Jun 04, 2007
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Jobs/Vacancies / Job Opportunity by johnflo(m): 1:40pm On Jun 04, 2007
AVAILABLE JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR FIRST CLASS DEGREE HOLDER IN COMPUTER ENGINEERING TO BE PRECISE.

Please friends,I am a graduate of LADOKE AKINTOLA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY with a first class degree honours in computer engineering,so I would need help on companies requiring the services of a first class honors degree holder in COMPUTER ENGR, especially in the TELECOMMUNICATION AND THE OIL & GAS SECTOR.
Thank you in anticipation of your great jobs.
Jobs/Vacancies / Available Job Opportunities For First Class Degree Holder by johnflo(m): 1:32pm On Jun 04, 2007
AVAILABLE JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR FIRST CLASS DEGREE HOLDER IN COMPUTER ENGINEERING TO BE PRECISE.

Please friends,I am a graduate of LADOKE AKINTOLA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY with a first class degree honours in computer engineering,so I would need help on companies requiring the services of a first class honors degee holder in COMPUTER ENGR, especially in the TELECOMMUNICATION AND THE OIL & GAS SECTOR.
Thank you in anticipation of your great jobs.

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