BLACKPANTHER:
Doc, what's the best medication approach to Gonorrhea Infection. Is a prescription of Ciprofloxacin 500mg + Doxicillin 100mg for 7days start a good one? Or what do you feel should prescribed for one being resistant

Mzhappiness:
Doc....pls wat causes a painful ovulation especially on th first day.. and is it normal. Tnks.

Jaywon242:
pls doc,what tests can one do to ascertain if there's a bacterial or viral infection in one's blood?

toitoi:
Please doctor, am 4weeks pregnant and am having lower back ache like (jedijedi) even before I knew I was pregnant. What is the cause and is it normal.

imperiouxx:


Only your primary sponsor might be on your I20 or simply they will write "family". Embassy requires updated statement, that means the total might have changed after submitting to produce your I20. More genuine documents may also be added.

sofadj:
Abeg the information you gave to your school (as regards funding sources and amount) before being issued the i20, does it have to be exact same with what you'l go to the embassy with for your visa interview?

imperiouxx:

Yes and no.

Akposkool:
Oga blame the economy. There is no middle class anymore in the society. You are either rich or poor. Back in the days it was not all about money but civilization and ignorance couple with hunger has swayed our minds to think relationship is an investment. Even the cost of getting married now can make a guy choke. Some girls see relationship as a profit making venture. That's why i say blame it on the economy.

bigfrancis21:


Hey, congrats on your admission to UMD. I am an alumnus of the school, having graduated last december.

UMD is quite a huge campus with a teeming student population. As you probably know by now, it ranks among the top schools in the US. As you would expect, it is quite a tough school academically but you should be fine. It is located in the city of college park, in the Prince George's county of Maryland. The school is about 15 minutes drive to the white house and about 5 minutes drive away from Washington DC (very close). Housing around the school is average and you can rent a room in a house for between $400 to $600 per month, with or without utilities. It is about 45 minutes drive from Baltimore. The public system in the DMV area (DC, Maryland and Virginia) is quite well developed and many buses run that cover several routes. Maryland's weather is usually not too extreme - neither too cold as in NY or Boston nor too hot as in Florida. The weather is in-between.

UMD has a diversified reliable school shuttle system covering the Prince George's county and environs. Thus there is strong chance that you could get a house off campus along a shuttle route that would take you to and bring you back from school.

There are many Nigerian students (foreign and US-born) going to school here. I'm sure you'll be able to connect with Nigerian students here.

In all, it is a good school to attend. Go terps!

Dyspareunia or painful sexual intercourse can occur for a variety of reasons ranging from structural problems to psychological concerns. Many women experience painful intercourse at some point in their lives. It could occur just before sex, during or after. It could occur in men and women. It could occur on the surface, deep. It could affect a small portion of the genitals or more generalized. Understanding the duration, location, and nature of the pain is important to doctors in identifying the causes of the pain.


Causes
1.First time : it is normal and common for a woman having intercourse for the first time to feel pain because the hymen is stretched. It can be very painful too.
2.Infections : infection of the female upper genital tract, including the womb, fallopian tubes and ovaries. It makes intercourse painful
3.Injury – from surgery or following birth
4.Anatomic variations : Hymenal remnants, narrow vaginal canal,
5.Space-occupying-masses – Ovarian cysts, Fibroid, Polyp,
6.Pain from bladder irritation
7.Hormonal causes : Disturbances in hormonal levels may affect production of natural lubricants in the vaginal leading to frictional pain.
8.Vaginal dryness
9.Psychological : Sexual intercourse could be painful when the woman is not 100% ready for it. She needs to be emotionally and physically involved for it to feel good.
10.Vaginismus : this is a condition where muscles in or around the vagina shut tightly and make penetration very painful or even totally impossible
11.Menopause: when a woman reaches the menopausal age, her changing hormone levels can make her vagina dry (atrophic vaginitis), leading to painful intercourse. Lubricants or hormone replacement therapy may come handy

SOLUTIONS

The treatment for pain with intercourse depends on what is causing the pain. After proper diagnosis one or more treatments for specific causes may be necessary.

For example:

For pain thought to be due to infections, a clinician may prescribe a medications to clear the infections.

For pain thought to be due to post-menopausal vaginal dryness, hormonal treatment can be used or lubricants may be recommended

For women with endometriosis, medications or surgery are possible options.

These may reduce discomfort with intercourse:

- Knowing that in almost all cases, pain disappears over the time or at least will be greatly reduced especially with first timers.

- Encouraging your partner to learn about your body, to explore your anatomy and learn how you like to be caressed and touched.

- Addition of pleasant, sexually exciting experiences to your regular interactions, such as bathing together (in which the primary goal is not cleanliness), or mutual caressing without intercourse. Such activities tend to increase both natural lubrication and vaginal dilation, both of which decrease friction and pain. Prior to intercourse, MouthAction may relax and lubricate the vagina (providing both partners are comfortable with it).

- Use of water-soluble lubricants during intercourse. Oil based lubricants are discouraged. Lubricant should be liberally applied (two tablespoons full) to both the penis and the orifice. A folded bath towel under the receiving partner’s hips helps prevent spillage on bedclothes.

- For those who have pain on deep penetration because of pelvic injury or disease: A change in position to one admitting less penetration may help. In women receiving vaginal penetration: maximum penetration is achieved when the woman lies on her back with her pelvis rolled up off the bed, compressing her thighs tightly against her chest with her calves over the penetrating partner’s shoulders. Minimal penetration occurs when a the woman lies on her back with her legs extended flat on the bed and close together while her partner’s legs straddle hers. A device has also been described for limiting penetration.

- The bottom line is that painful intercourse is not normal and can be treated once you reach the health experts and explain. You doctor is your best friend

wordbank:
Op might be one of such
Abeg go make doctors use u test weda e go work

There was once a man who lived in New York, United States – Stephen Lyon Crohn.He was born on September 5 1946 in Manhattan and was a homosexual. After training as an artist and social worker, he worked as a painter and sculptor and as a freelance editor for Fodors Travel.

Fascinations began when it was discovered that many of his male partners were dying from AIDS. He was tested several times as part of the routine to investigate partners of AIDS victims, but he always tested negative. Scientists pondered, either he was lucky or was indeed immune.

In the early 1990s his case came to the attention of Bill Paxton, a scientist at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York who had been looking for gay men who seemed resistant to infection. With a colleague, David Ho, Paxton exposed Crohns blood cells, and those of another volunteer, to HIV.


Bravely, he volunteered to have his white blood cells exposed to H.I.V. but doctors were unable to infect him – even at concentrations thousands of times stronger than anything that would occur outside a test tube.

Crohn had the “delta 32” mutation on the CCR5 receptor, a protein on the surface of white blood cells that is involved in the immune system and serves as an access route for many forms of HIV virus to enter and infect host cells. This mutation rendered him effectively immune to many forms of HIV.

In later life he ran support groups for Aids patients and made sure that the lives of all his friends who had died of the disease were commemorated with a square on the huge Aids Memorial Quilt, which now consists of more than 48,000 hand-sewn panels.

The research into Crohn’s immune system led to the development of MARAVIROC, a drug that blocks the CCR5 receptor and is used to prevent infection spreading in patients who have contracted the virus. In 2006, an AIDS patient in Germany was pronounced cured after receiving bone marrow transplants from a donor who had the mutation.

DEATH

On August 23, he committed suicide following drug overdose, according to his sister Amy Crohn Santagata. ‘My brother saw all his friends around him dying, and he didn’t die,’ Ms Santagata said. ‘He went through a tremendous amount of survivor guilt about that and said to himself, “There’s got to be a reason.”

She added: ‘He was quite extraordinary, and then also quite ordinary

OTHER IMMUNE PEOPLE

Very few people have this genetic variation, which some scientists think has been inherited from ancestors who survived the massive bubonic plague in Europe centuries ago. About 1% of Caucasians have it, and it is even rarer in Native Americans, Asians, and Africans. A 2005 report indicated that 1% of people descended from Northern Europe are virtually immune to AIDS.

Immune Africans

In early 2000, researchers discovered a small group of prostitutes in Nairobi, Kenya who were estimated to have sexual contact with 60 to 70 HIV positive clients a year without signs of infection.

Monrovia (AFP) - Three new cases of the deadly Ebola virus have been confirmed in Liberia, the country's health ministry and World Health Organization said Friday, after the nation was declared Ebola free in September.

An official in the West Africa country that has been devastated by the worst ever outbreak of the virus urged calm, insisting that health workers had the means to contain the latest outbreak.

"We are calling on the population not to panic because we have people capable of putting the situation under control," health ministry spokesman Sorbor George told reporters.

"Let everyone take the necessary measures to prevent the virus from spreading," he added.

WHO said the first confirmed case in the new outbreak was a 10-year-old boy who fell sick on November 14 and was hospitalised in the capital Monrovia three days later.

The other two patients are related to the boy.

Medical practitioners usually advise these set of people to stay away from alcohol or at least reduce the volume.

1. Pregnant women especially in the first twelve weeks of pregnancy

2. Breastfeeding women - Alcohol passes to the baby in small amounts in breast milk. The milk will smell different to the baby and may affect their feeding, sleeping or digestion.

3. Young people below 18 years

4. People with chronic hepatitis C

5. Older people because their bodies may be less able to handle the effects of alcohol

6. People who have a poor diet, are fasting or hungry

7. People who are malnourished

8. People who are told not to drink for legal, medical or other reasons

9. People who have a family history of cancer or other risk factors for cancer

10. People who are or have been dependent on other drugs

11. People taking sleeping pills, tranquillizers or narcotics

12. Thin people; those below average body weight (60 kilograms for men, 50 kilograms for women

13. People who CHOOSE NOT to drink alcohol.