IGNORANCE IS A DISEASE: CLEAR FACTS ON MYTHS AND MISCONCEPTION ON HORMONAL IMBALANCE

It is sad to say that ignorance has eaten deep into our living environments to the extent of taking over some people’s lives, even when being dragged out of it by education, information and improved technology. They are being blind folded by the scarf of ignorance. You can imagine that someone will be sick and dying, instead of going to the hospital to see a doctor, would rather prefer to go to a native or herbal man or woman for some heaven knows concoction. The worst of it is that even some people that actually went to school are guilty of indulging in such practices.  And when being asked why they’d prefer to go to herbal people instead of hospital, they’d tell you that it is poverty, but actually it is not. Because if you analyse how much these herbal men and women charge their clients, you will realize that hospital will not charge them one quarter of it, and they will still pay and at the same time get brain washed on how the ill health condition is not something the hospital can take care of.

This is a case of a young girl having an issue of hormonal imbalance. Let us have a touch of what hormone is and hormonal imbalance too.

Hormones are chemicals that are produced by glands in the endocrine system. They are important for regulating most major bodily processes. Hormones can help regulate helps to regulate: metabolism, heart rate, sleep cycle, reproductive cycles’ sexual functions, general growth and development’ mood and stress level, body temperature.

Hormonal imbalance occurs when there is too much or too little of hormone in the blood stream.

Everyone will experience natural periods of hormonal imbalance or fluctuations at particular points in their life. Hormonal imbalances can also occur when the endocrine glands are not functioning properly.

Causes of hormonal imbalance

·         Chronic or extreme stress

·         Type I and 2 diabetes

·         Hyperglycemia

·         Hypoglycemia

·         Poor diet and nutrition

·         Being over weight

·         Hormonal replacement or birth control medications

·         Abuse of anabolic steroids medications e.t.c.

Symptoms of hormonal imbalance in women

·         Heavy, irregular and painful periods

·         Vaginal dryness

·         Breast tenderness

·         Indigestion

·         Constipation and diarrhea

·         Infertility

·         Weight gain

·         Hair loss

·         Clitoral enlargement e.t.c

Symptoms in men

·         Reduced sex drive

·         Erectile dysfunction

·         Low sperm count

·         Reduced muscle mass

·         Reduced body hair growth

·         Breast tenderness (www.medical newstoday.com)

This young girl who had been frustrated by these herbal people finally visited a hospital to make complains about her irregular menstrual period, which comes about 3 to 4 times only in a year (polycistic ovarian syndrome which may be caused by stress, intense exercise, weight loss or diet and hormonal imbalance. Girls with this condition often have acne, excess hair growth or weight problems). She said it has been going on right from her teen age till present. She had told her mom and instead of her mom to take her to the hospital, to find out what exactly caused the problem, she took her to a herbal woman. Who had been giving her concoction for years in order to correct the problem yet to no avail and also kept on discouraging her from going to the hospital.

This young girl’s issue initially was supposed to be a mild hormonal imbalance which could have been corrected with simple treatment but now that the concoction she had been taking for years has jeopardized the health of her organs, it has compounded the whole issue (quite a pity).

FROM THE TABLE OF HE GOOD NURSE

·         Please my dear friends in Christ, hospital should be the first place to come to your imagination whenever you fall sick. So that health professionals could arrest the situation while it could be arrested before it becomes resistance to arrest.

·         Seek medical attention to avoid complication and for positive outcome for prevention is better than cure.

·         Please let us join hands and cure this disease called ignorance by talking to people well-grounded in the field concerning our troubles.