Nurse Millian Blog

It has been said over and over again about the trouble self medication can cause. But to some people, it's just like ringing bell for brake time and after the brake people go back to it. But we will keep health educating, counselling and reaching out to our brethren in order to save lives. Pregnancy period is not like ordinary period in a woman's life, when you can do anything you feel like doing or take any drug you feel like taking. It is a period where your care to your self needs an upgrade. It is a period that any drug taken must be a drug prescribed by your doctor who must have been aware of your pregnancy.  Because during pregnancy, there are formation of organs and systems that form the human being you are carrying and any disruption of any of the processes of formation can lead to deformity. And some drugs can be toxic to the fetus when being formed leading to birth defect. A woman brought in her new born to the hospital with so many abnormalities,  the most glar

So many women that have gone through pregnancy have lost their chances of being called mothers because of the phrase ‘delivering like women of Hebrew’.   This ‘delivering like women of Hebrew was coined from the bible “ye shall give birth like the women of Hebrew” mean while it did not specify what kind of delivery women of Hebrew went through, whether it was caesarean section (through operation) or vaginal delivery.   Believe me, that these two processes are both considered acceptable and normal ways of giving birth to children in human beings, but some of our women here, consider vaginal delivery as the only normal way a woman should be put to birth and they also believe that it was the only way the Hebrew women gave birth. If you counsel some women on the need to go through caesarean section for delivery, it will look as if you have committed a grievous sin and the first thing that will come out of their mouth will be “God forbid, I shall deliver like women of Hebrew” with a

Self -prescription, self-medication is the order of twenty first century. People buy and take drugs at random provided it has been prescribed once for them by a doctor or that they have seen someone who suffer similar ailment to theirs take it. People do not see any need to visit the hospital and see a doctor for some ailment they call minor ailment with the notion that it can be treated at home.   Most devastating one is the treatment of an ailment with various types of drugs that should not in fact be used for the health challenge they suffer. And they will end up worsening their situations and before they will think of going to the hospital, it will either be too late or that they will have to spend so much for that case. There are ailments that take little finance to take care of in the hospital but can be compounded by the act of self-medication leading to spending so much and even losing one’s life. A lady was brought to the hospital bleeding, with the history of be

With recent development and exposure in Nigeria, there are certain behaviors or acts that are supposed to have been extinguished by us, even when unconsciously displayed by someone, people, neighbors even children can easily correct and put that person back to tract. But believe me, those things, behavior and acts some of us think it’s no longer possible to exist still do to its maximum. Can you believe that in this time and era, some people do not take their antenatal routine drugs not even once throughout their period of pregnancy? A woman was brought in to the hospital as she was in labor; this is someone that had attended antenatal classes though not regular about 3 to 4 times throughout her gestation. Gave birth to a baby that would have been sweet to look at, but instead, the baby was full of abnormalities. The most glaring of the defects was the neural tube defect the baby had (spina bifida).   The neural tube is the structure that eventually develops into the baby’s

Alcohol consumption during pregnancy is one of the most dangerous things to do during pregnancy because, while pregnant, no amount of alcohol is considered safe to drink, and there is no safe time or trimester to drink alcohol (world health organization). This is because, throughout the pregnancy period, the different systems that make up the body are progressively developing, and any disruption during the development of any of the systems can cause a defect in the child when given birth to. EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION DURING PREGNANCY ON THE BABY ·          Fetal Alcohol Syndrome which can produce irreversible lifetime changes in physical, mental and behavioral development of fetus. ·          Microcephaly (small head) ·          Low birth weight ·          Shorter than average height ·          Poor coordination ·          Poor memory ·          Speech and language delay ·          Intellectual disability or low IQ and many more (www.wikipedia.org) A wom

Convulsion in children can occur when there is a peak of body temperature (increased fever). Especially when the child has been showing signs of fever and nothing is done medically to calm the fever. Normally parents are usually being told of how to manage fever at home by first of all exposing the child (That is removal of the child’s clothes and allow air to touch the body). Then tepid sponging (That is the use of water at room temperature, not so cold water from the fridge please), then giving the normal dosage of antipyretic drugs (drugs that calm fever like paracetamol, ibuprofen etc.) if the fever continues, the child should be taken to the hospital. But some parents do not follow these steps, instead they go for herbs, take advice from friends and neighbours who are not even, medically inclined. They listen to stories of how their grandparents used some awfully methods to take care of their feverish condition. And when it results to trouble, everyone will start crying and