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He is the cause of his own electoral loss. Na coalition dey win election. He thought he could do it alone

A 21-year old university student developed heart failure after "excessive" consumption of energy drinks, a new report suggests.

For two years, the man drank four 500ml energy drinks a day, according to the BMJ Case Report.

He spent 58 days in hospital, including the intensive care unit which he described as "traumatising".

Before the hospital admission, he suffered with shortness of breath and weight loss for four months.

Doctors treating him considered a number of diagnoses, but concluded: "Energy drink-induced cardiotoxicity was felt to be the most likely cause."

An organ transplant was considered after tests revealed both his heart and kidneys had failed - with the kidney failure linked to a long-standing but previously undiagnosed condition.

The unnamed patient contributed to the report, and was unable to continue his university studies three months before hospital admission because of his health.

"When I was drinking up to four energy drinks per day, I suffered from tremors and heart palpitations, which interfered with my ability to concentrate on daily tasks and my studies at university."

After nine months his heart function has appeared to have returned with "mildly impaired function", but the report said it was difficult to predict recovery or potential for relapse.

The student suffered from severe migraine headaches which would "often occur during the periods" when he didn't have energy drinks.

"This also restricted my ability to perform day-to-day tasks and even leisurely activities such as going to the park or taking a walk," he said.

He felt there should be more awareness about energy drinks and the effect of their contents.

"I believe they are very addictive and far too accessible to young children. I think warning labels, similar to smoking, should be made to illustrate the potential dangers of the ingredients in energy drink," he added.

Energy drinks ban for children proposed

This comes after a separate study done by researchers at Cardiff University analysed the responses of a health survey of more than 176,000 secondary school children in Wales aged 11 to 16 between 2013 and 2017.

It found that 6% of pupils said they drank energy drinks on a "daily" basis - a trend which didn't change over time.

The study's lead author Dr Kelly Morgan said there was a difference in consumption between those from low and high socioeconomic groups.

"Marketing campaigns for energy drinks are often aimed at those from more disadvantaged backgrounds."

Their popularity was unlikely to be hit unless policy measures were "put in place", Dr Morgan added.

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-56747731

Health authorities in Sweden have raised alarm over the acute shortage of sperm for insemination as COVID-19 is keeping potential donors away from clinics.

Reuters reported that the shortage in sperm for assisted pregnancy has largely halted inseminations in most hospitals, and this it said could drive up waiting times by years.

Those planning to begin their own family now have to wait for around 30 months or more compared to about six months in the past year, doctors told the newspaper.

“We’re running out of sperm. We’ve never had so few donors as during the last year,” the newspaper reported the head of the reproduction unit at Gothenburg’s University Hospital, Thurin Kjellberg, as saying.

The calls for men to come forward to donate sperm has intensified since then.

This scarcity is not peculiar to public healthcare centres. Private clinics in the Scandinavian country are also grappling with sperm deficit, but they are now buying sperm from abroad.

Assisted pregnancy is free within Sweden’s national health service, but its treatment could cost as much as 100,000 Swedish krona ($11,785), one that not many can afford.

“It’s a national phenomenon,” Ms Kjellberg said. “We’ve run out in Gothenburg and Malmo, they will soon run out in Stockholm.”

Because under Swedish law, according to Reuters, , a sperm sample can only be used by a maximum of six women, most sperm samples in the country have reached their legal capacity.

According to the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, Nordic countries (which is made up of Denmark, Finland, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) and Belgium have the highest assisted conception rates in the world, in terms of availability of cycles per million of population.

Efforts by some Swedish regions to urge potential sperm donors on social media have returned little changes.

“We need to go on TV and tell Swedish men to come forward,” Ms Kjellberg said.

Sweden has reported 13,720 COVID-19 deaths, more than its Nordic neighbours but lower than many other European countries.

But it is now grappling with a surge in recent days which has now left the country with the highest number of COVID-19 infections per person in Europe.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/health/health-news/455488-sperm-deficit-hits-sweden-as-covid-19-keeps-donors-away-from-hospitals.html

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