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vickkyruby:Yes I am. For security reasons will send you a PM with the requested advice. |
vickkyruby:You're welcome ![]() Antacids should give immediate symptomatic relief. For long term control you would need to take something like omeprazole or similar. These drugs are called proton pump inhibitors and they work by suppressing stomach acid production. A course of 4-6 weeks should provide effective relief in conjunction with other measures as discussed earlier. In the Nigerian setting I would also consider a 2 week course of antibiotics to treat helicobacter infection if you're still getting symptoms despite antacids and proton pump inhibitors. Best wishes. |
steppin:Lol.. From the number of insults you're receiving from those with similar writing skills to the OP your point has been lost. It doesn't really concern you unless you are planning to employ engineering graduates in the future. As they say, don't take another mans panadol, watch your own back.. |
quest003:People have a right to be careful before they part with their hard earned cash. He should be open and willing to answer questions to assuage people's fears of being scammed especially as he has put his predicament in the public domain. |
Why do people have a problem with modern technology these days? I keep hearing 'don't use the bible app' on your tablet everywhere I go. So in that light please wears raffia palm skirts, ride bicycles or indeed a donkey to church and of course don't use multimedia in church as well. You also have to use the original bible scrolls in ancient Hebrew or Aramaic as well non of this modern translation bible nonsense. If you don't own one or don't understand it don't knock it! If I want to use a tablet or my phone in church instead of listening to the sermon my mind is already distracted. If I have a hard copy bible it isn't going to stop me. ![]() |
Coldplay007:You don't necessarily need to be bedridden for a liver transplant. There are different stages of liver disease and you don't wait till the patient is too sick before you list them for a transplant. It will be prudent to get more details like people have requested. |
So give us more details so we can decide for ourselves 1. Where were you diagnosed? 2. What is the cause of the chronic liver failure? 3. What stage is the liver disease at the moment? 4. What is the total cost of the liver transplant.? 5. Have you found a compatible donor? 6. Where will the operation take place? Best wishes |
First of all, who diagnosed a stomach ulcer in you? Severe indigestion does not necessarily mean you have an ulcer. Lifestyle changes ie no spicy food, lose weight if necessary, don't miss meals, reduce fizzy drinks, tea and coffee, stop smoking and heavy alcohol intake is the usual first line advice. Unless you have had an endoscopic examination of the stomach or perhaps a barium meal the diagnosis is uncertain and may be wrong. If your doctors or healthcare practitioner say you have an ulcer without the basic investigations he is guessing the most likely diagnosis based on your symptoms.. nigerian style medicine in a resource poor environment. Secondly, yes there is a cure. 60% of stomach ulcers are caused by an infection with a bacteria called 'helicobacter pylori' you can google it, this can be treated with a simple course of antibiotics. It is advisable to test for this infection rather than treat blindly so as not to miss the diagnosis of something more serious. Surgery for stomach ulcers is archaic treatment, unless you have a bleeding ulcer which requires immediate surgery and is usually accompanied by passing black stool (altered blood) or vomiting large amounts of blood. You do not necessarily have to have a stomach examination if you're under the age of 45 because the risk of such symptoms being cancer is low. However if the symptoms are severe and persistent and you're losing weight or vomiting constantly it may well be recommended. The recommendation that said is to test for helicobacter pylori and treat if positive. I do not know if such tests are available in Nigeria. The tests are simple and consist of a breath test where you breath into a tube or analysis of a stool sample. Helicobacter can also be tested by doing a biopsy of the stomach during internal examination. The blood test looking for antibodies is no longer performed as most people have previous exposure and a positive test does not mean active infection. Lastly most of the treatment for stomach ulcers tends to be symptomatic ie aimed at the symptoms so youre given pain killers and antacids. If you are suffering you should consult a healthcare professional and a gastroenterologist to be precise as this is their area of expertise. Hope this helps |
This came from Linda Ikejis blog, from the comments posted there I can see how ignorant the public are. They don't know the facts but have pronounced judgement. I won't go into the specifics but story doesn't add up, however comments along the lines of Sack her! Close the hospital! Kill her! Burn the hospital down! The hospital killed my father, my mother, my whole village! The list is endless, Nigerian doctors and hospitals are a reflection of society. If the country doesn't work as a whole why should hospitals and doctors be different. Everyone myself included has a story of a relative who died in hospital or was killed by doctors. The comment that riles me the most, "you're a doctor dealing with human life do you can't make mistakes". This is ignorance doctors have will and will continue to make mistakes. The fact they have a human life in their hands doesn't mean they're no longer tired or overworked. Nigerian doctors are overworked, poorly paid and under equipped and these days poorly trained or developed. This is Nigeria. |
laplace12:Tell me. Are corpers not all adults these days? So why would they need parental permission? |
ichidodo:So pray tell me why is this strategy just being used now? Did GEJ arrive on the scene yesterday? |
coogar:Lol, so every store that installs CCTV and monitors it has to be 'high end'? Even my local corner shop has CCTV and I see him looking at it everytime i enter his overpriced store. ![]() You're missing my point. I am not saying that CCTV is monitored 100% of the time or it can't be beaten, in this Nigerian shop they installed CCTV for a reason, theft detection and I will explain.. If you can spend the money to install an expensive CCTV system in Nigeria then you can spend some time or money monitoring it. It doesn't have to be 12 hours a day and come to think of it the shoplifters in this case must have been lucky or perhaps the owner was distracted at that precise moment so they got away. There is no point taking the footage to the nearest police station and asking them to help apprehend the culprits, they will laugh at your face so you have to be more proactive. Shop owners in Nigeria and other smaller shop owners are not Walmart or Harrods that rely on the backup of the police to prevent shoplifting. So in my opinion (humble) I am not expecting too much of them to monitor their own CCTV. If they can't monitor the CCTV then what is the point installing the CCTV? the girl stealing actually looked at the camera so she knew it was a camera and banked on the fact it might not be working or being monitored, some people would not even have a clue what the camera is. I bet she has stolen from that shop before so they are considered a soft target. I have walked out of shops with goods without realising i hadn't paid and I have also seen people accosted at the door because the security caught them on camera. That doesn't mean that no one has ever got away with stealing from the same shop. Some people are banned from Marks and Spencers for persistent shoplifting despite all the cameras and security. CCTV can be a crime deterrent or crime detector it just depends on how you apply it. In Nigeria your CCTV has to be a crime detector because once they have left the shop your goods are gone forever. This is the point I was trying to make. ![]() |
coogar:Have you seen the security control room of Harrods before? I have and they have security men with radios monitoring the screens as well as patrolling the shop floor. They don't just rely on tags and yes they do pay people to monitor CCTV and that is a hard fact.. Nuff said |
chymystique:Lol.. not every Nigerian is in the same timezone.. and some have chronic nairaland induced insomnia |
http://saharareporters.com/2015/03/16/nigeria-denies-hiring-mercenaries-fight-boko-haram So who are the foreign looking people then? "technical advisers?" |
coogar:CCTV is rarely monitored eh? Ok go into Marks and Spencers or Harrods, stuff some clothes into your jacket and try and walk out. The big shops do monitor their CCTV and the national CCTV you see on roads, airports and other public places is monitored and recorded 24 hours a day. The only people who 'rarely' monitor CCTV are those who put fake monitors up or some small shop owners. I suspect the reason they don't is they cant afford the staff. Even the small shop owners can be seen watching the monitors from time to time. I can't quote how often because i haven't done a survey nor have i read one regarding monitoring habits..so don't generalise and make statements like you have the statistics in your pocket. Furthermore we aren't in a country with effective police for you to rely on recognition of the individual after the crime has occurred, do you seriously think the police are going to come round and investigate. Its only the general public that might help identify the culprit but then what next? |
She must be the first thief to be featured on CCTV in Nigeria, by the way what's the point having CCTV if you don't monitor it? expensive waste of useful technology |
You paid to 'Influence' your posting outcome and yet you will be the first to complain of corruption in Nigeria.. double standards.. but wait there has to be a standard right? |
The war must be win by any means necessary I agree.. We need to prevent our country from being taken over by insurgents in the future as soon as this is over. We dont want to end up like syria or somalia |
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/13/world/africa/nigerias-fight-against-boko-haram-gets-help-from-south-african-mercenaries.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 News reports filtering in suggest mercenaries are involved in the ongoing offensive against Boko haram. This news raises a lot of questions So who is involved in this battle? What is the input from the Nigerian Army? Are the mercenaries responsible for the recent successes? What are they doing that the NA can't do? |
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/13/world/africa/nigerias-fight-against-boko-haram-gets-help-from-south-african-mercenaries.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 News reports filtering in suggest mercenaries are involved in the ongoing offensive against Boko haram. This news raises a lot of questions So who is involved in this battle? What is the input from the Nigerian Army? Are the mercenaries responsible for the recent successes? What are they doing that the NA can't do? |
SIRTee15:No system is perfect |
babyosisi:Your OP contains certain truths but is flawed by generalisation and perhaps poor attention to the root of the problem in the narrative so came across as biased and sentimental rather than constructive. Nigerian doctors are first and foremost Nigerian so they will give you Nigerian style treatment just like the appalling tretament you get from a Nigerian banker in a Nigerian bank and the list is endless. I attempted to address this by constructively addressing certain points you made. I do not state there is no problem but rather the problem is multifactorial. When all the basic problems of funding, regulation, leadership and training are addressed as is the case to a degree in western hospitals, Nigerian doctors are much better at their jobs. They however may lapse because certain attitudes are hard to get rid of and that's when you hear about them in the news. There are more Nigerian doctors outside than within Nigeria. Many of them have previously worked in Nigeria. They must be getting something right if they are able to get jobs abroad. |
armadeo:Good question, if you went to the airport to travel for an urgent meeting and you heard there was no plane or pilot in sight would you wait for 4 days? You need to take responsibility for your own health and destiny. |
babyosisi:What goes around comes around.. Nigerian doctors are a product of Nigerian society, you bribe your way in school, university, on the road, at the airport and everywhere you go and you expect Nigerian doctors to be different? Nigerian doctors are living the same hustle that everyone else lives in Nigeria.. Swap doctor for banker, policeman, immigration officer, banker and you and the fundamentals are the same.. Poor pay, low morale, corruption, greed, selfishness, poor leadership etc Change starts from the top and starts from within. No one person can change society. People always complain when hospitals ask for money upfront. Are they a charity? When you rushed your collapsed relative to the hospital and you saw they couldn't treat her why did you stay? If you go to the bank and the building is on fire will you stay to collect your money because you have money there? Moreover can you get anything for free in society? Even what is your right you have to pay for.. That's Nigeria for you. All of you that complain are the same whether you're the rude banker, the graduate with a first class who can't speak English, the government worker who doesn't show up for work, the petrol attendant shortchanging customers or the businessman who doesn't pay tax. Sorry but that's life, that's nigeria for you .. |
nurexfutmx:Haba! you've been scammed like this before and yet you ask? I suggest 3 options 1. Pay the money and confirm to all that, indeed you are stupid and this isn't a joke 2. Keep your money in your pocket and keep looking for a job 3. Tell them you will pay when you have been in the job and collecting a genuine salary and emoluments at a rate of 100,000 a month for 1 year |
Redoil:The truth needs to be said, how else will we improve when we are hiding our heads in the sand? You don't think there is a problem then i take it? |
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babyosisi:An eye opener it will be indeed, you get what you pay for. Medical care is not cheap anywhere in the world but life is cheap in Nigeria. |
Konnektions146:You accuse me of being rude, i defend myself and you tell me i am being arrogant because i do not agree with you? where's the logic there? did i tell you i am better than you? All I see is people claiming a holier than thou attitude, and describing how they slapped someone because they were rude etc just because someone has taken up nursing doesn't mean she should accept insults. If i slapped everyone who i felt was rude I would have a sore arm by the time i get home everyday and i am sure that even i have come across rude to some people at some point because i am not perfect. So let me agree with you.. yes i don't know you and you don't know me and our paths may never cross but if they do and i am 'rude' to you please talk to me and do not slap me I, on my part can't accuse you of anything to which i do not have evidence of nor will i resort to calling you names because i can't get my point across, it is simply not my nature. My main point in all this is, we all have a duty to be polite and respectful at all times, even if the person annoying us or being obstructive is a 'small girl' in our eyes. we do not have to resort to physical violence. This also includes people we interact with online or in person. To whom much is given much is expected, this applies to everyone regardless of your job, vocation or calling, myself included whether you are a nurse, self employed, a CEO, a client or a customer Thank you |
davit:Tricky one, he has a right to use his generator just as you have a right to peaceful sleep but not at your expense i reiterate. Is there any other place he can move his generator to? I suspect not as you would have looked at this If there is he should move it there or move it away from you, you are also at risk from the exhaust fumes and fire hazard as well as the noise pollution so it should not interfere with your activities of daily (and nightly) living. |
skillzbae:So tell me do you slap any of your staff on a regular basis? Also if i came in to your business and slapped your staff for whatever reason because i felt she was rude would you accept such behaviour? By the way there are rude nurses abroad, but not as many as in Nigeria, moreover a few noticeable ones among them are Nigerians who may have just arrived or are indeed set in their bad ways. They usually end up with a reprimand or being sanctioned by the nursing and midwifery council. The pay is better so they also learn to be more appreciative and respectful especially when they consider the alternatives in Nigeria - poor pay with verbal and physical insults. That notwithstanding, Nigerian nurses abroad are generally well behaved apart from a few bad eggs. The nurses abroad are overworked too and they are also subject to abuse but the hospital management does not tolerate such behaviour. The last person who assaulted a nurse doing her duty, rude or not spent 9 months in prison for assault so count yourself lucky! |



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