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Woke up a couple of days ago with neck pain and thought to post this so that y’all don’t have to go through what I went through. I knew exactly what caused it! 😀 Too many pillows…

What about you? Have you ever woken up with a crick in your neck that lasts for a while…perhaps due to the position in which you slept? That pain can be uncomfortable and may be due to other reasons. Here are ways to keep neck pain at bay:
• Try using the hands free device of your phone instead of constantly bending over your neck on one side to answer your call
• Make sure your computer screen is at eye level
• Keep your eye glasses’ lens prescription up to date so that you’re not constantly leaning back to see properly
• Don’t use too many pillows to sleep (obviously :D)
•…

Doc, please Ma’am, is it good to drink cold water during your periods, because I heard it’s not good from someobody? Whenever I take it and I’m on my I do have menstrual cramps. Can it be because of the water or something else? Ma’am, please share some tips to reduce cramps during period.

period,
A: The reason why you have cramps during your period is because your utrerus (womb) is contracting. If the contraction gets too strong that it blocks blood flow to vessels around, pain results. This is a usual body response when muscles are deprived of blood.

If you want to drink cold water during your period, be my guest! Does it make menstrual cramps worse? Not really. Perhaps the only thing that can be said for this is that the cold water has to be warmed by body temperature before it can be used. Having said…

Q: Dr is there any side effect eating alligator pepper as a woman?

A: Good question. Alligator pepper is a spice used commonly in pepper soup, as an accompaniment to kolanut and garden eggs (egg plant) especially in Ibo land. It is touted as having quite a number of health benefits. However, a study carried out in 2009 by Inegbenebor et al, suggests that its excessive use in the first trimester of pregnancy may pose a health risk to women.

What’s a little, what’s a lot? 😉 I suggest that you leave well alone during the period of pregnancy.

Have a good weekend, y’all 😀

Q: Good job Dr. Please, keep it up.
Dr. is it possible for one to be pregnant and still see her monthly period?

A: People do not menstruate when pregnant. Remember that menstruation happens when fertilization of eggs released during ovulation by sperm does not occur. And so, if fertilization and pregnancy occur, menstruation is ruled out.

Bleeding can occur in early pregnancy though, close to or about the same time as the menstruation would and thus be mistaken for a period. This bleeding could be due to implantation as the fertilized egg implants itself in the uterus (womb). Other causes of bleeding in early pregnancy include ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage and infections.

Bleeding in pregnancy may not necessarily be an emergency but because there are other causes of these episodes of bleeding, which are potentially life threatening like ectopic pregnancy, bleeding in pregnancy should always be checked out in the…

Q: Hello Dr Ketch, what can I do to be healthy especially as we are preparing for our fast?

A: Thanks for writing in.

What to do? Keep eating healthy and focus on gentle exercises.
Breaking a fast is usually not as easy as it should be. You haven’t been eating and now it’s time to eat, so you pick anything you like to eat. Pretty open and shut, isn’t it? But actually, it’s not that easy.
Eating and drinking during a fast (religious or otherwise) should be easy…but is not always so. First, when a lot of people break fasts, they go on a binge. They eat the equivalent of what should have comfortably been taken over two or three meals! 😀 And then they break the fasts with the wrong meals: refined and processed foods (eg cakes, pies etc) which lead to blood sugar spikes. Complex carbohydrates are…

Q: Dear: Doctor I’m 9 weeks
pregnant and going through threatened miscarriage I’m bleeding heavy with clots
I go to my doctor regularly but I always get the same answer that my baby is
still there I just need bed rest. This bleeding worries me a lot, is there
anything I can do to stop the bleeding?

A: A threatened miscarriage also known as threatened
abortion is vaginal bleeding that occurs within the first 20 weeks of
pregnancy. The bleeding is sometimes accompanied by abdominal cramps indicating
that a miscarriage is possible

Causes of threatened abortion include the placenta
trying to latch on to the wall of the uterus (womb), vaginal infections, damage
to the cervix, blood clot around the amniotic sac.

Your obstetrician will make this
diagnosis with an ultrasound scan. If a heartbeat is present irrespective of
your symptoms, then it is a threatened abortion. Absence of a…