Doctor, What’s Eosinophilia?

Doctor, What’s Eosinophilia?

Dear Dr,

I recently went to the laboratory to do a full blood count as recommended by a friend. The result came out and said I had 9% Eosinophilia in my White Blood Cell Count. Every other thing about the blood test was normal. The normal was supposed to be between 1 and 6 per cent. What can be wrong with me?

Jay Bulama-Spiff; Warrri

 

Dear Jay,

White Blood Cell count is a normal part of a Full blood Count test. After telling the total count, this test will break the white Cell Count into its differentials. Meaning, the blood contains red blood cells and white blood cells. The white cells are the defense component of the blood while the red cells function to carry and supply oxygen round the tissues in the body. The white cells, these defense agents, are of various types, namely neutrophils, leucocytes, monocytes, eosinophils  and basophils. That’s just like saying that the defense agents in a nation’s armed forces consist of the army, navy,air force, police and civil defense. The Differential Count tells us what percentage of the total count each of these five types of white cell represent in your own blood as against normal counts. Thus, for example, neutrophils are normally expected to be 40-75 percent while eosinophils make up1-6 percent. Physicians interprete your laboratory report to make a diagnosis of what the problem might be in your situation. In your own case your eosinophils were way high up in the 9percent range. Diseases that account for this Eosinophilia(high eosinophils percentage) include allergies of every type( food; drug; atopic hay fever); asthma; parasitic diseases(as in worms); fungal diseases, skin, endocrine, tumours/cancers, autoimmune diseases (HIV/AIDS is a classical one). What your doctor needs to do now is check your complaints and history; examine you thoroughly to find what may be the cause of your Eosinophilia. Most likely it will be worms; round-worms. A simple test of your stool will detect this and he will then give you medicines that will get rid of the worms – anthelminthics, we call them

Cheers

Dr. Caleb Bibbi Oluranti

Injections or Surgery or What For my Arthritis?

Injections or Surgery or What For my Arthritis?

Dear Dr,

I attend a government hospital where there are loads and lots of people to see the doctors for arthritis of the knees and other joints. My experience has been horrible. The doctors wanted me to go for total knee replacement surgery which I refused out of hand. Then they started injecting steroids into my knee joint directly to give me whatever minimal benefit from my excruciating knee pains. I am a 65 year-old civil servant about to retire and I am almost tired of my life from this arthritis and the injections. Is there no alternative? There must be something natural or simple that I can use or what do you think? I am desperate. Help me

Asabe Zanna, Maiduguri 

Dear Asabe, 

Truth be told, there is an epidemic of Arthritis in the populace which Orthodox medicine has no answer to but with complementary modalities, you can get rid of the very worst cases of arthritis in as fast as 6 days to at the most 6 weeks as we have said many times in this forum. There’s help and further information as you simply reach out.

Cheers

Dr.Caleb Bibbi Oluranti; 2348033466574; 2348093142261; 2348028240983; 2348057441699

Can Vaginal Discharge Cause Infertility?

Can Vaginal Discharge Cause Infertility? 

Dear Dr,

Does or can vaginal discharge prevent pregnancy?

Janet Alumona, Mkar, Benue

Dear Janet,

It is a very interesting question which correct health education answers better than any other. We have a free report accessible form our blog at www.mediamedix.blogspot.com  where we talked expansively on vaginal discharge; we delineated at least ten different types. 

To answer your question, the correct thing to do is to first determine what type of discharge a woman is having. This is because there are discharges that are NORMAL while there are those that are abnormal. To determine what type of discharge it is, you obviously need to see a doctor/gynecologist.

Normal discharges include the type that comes with ovulation. Abnormal ones include the one that follows infections with Gonorrhea or Chlamydia which are STD’s. Now if one has Chlamydia or Gonorrhea, there is the very possible complication of PID or pelvic inflammatory disease which generally blocks the fallopian tubes of women. 

Now once a woman's tubes are blocked, she becomes infertile or at the least, sub-fertile. Blocked tubes are generally difficult to overcome; some doctors believing in surgery (tuboplasty or tubectomy) on the tubes while others do not. 

Apart from surgery, there is some evidence that complementary care can be of some help. For further help, call the help-lines.

Cheers

Dr. Caleb BIbbi Oluranti  +2348033466574; +2348028240983; +2348057441699; +2348093142261

HELP ME GAIN WEIGHT FOR MY WEDDING!

Hello Dr,

 I'm in my late twenties but I look like a teenager. I'm 5ft 4 and I weigh 47kg  which is sickening. Some nurses and friends have suggested plenty pills like Rapidflox, Cypron, Cypri gold, Wate on, Super apetite, Fish oil, Doxycycline and so many others. But, I have been skeptical about getting any because I am health conscious and their side effects are scary. But lately I have decided to give some of the drugs a try and I started with Cypron but it was making me so drowsy that I had to stop. I bought a bottle of Wate on and I didn't see any changes so I didn't bother buying a second bottle. Last week, I gave Doxycycline a try but had to stop after 4 tablets because  it was giving me symptoms of flu and most times I felt like vomiting.
Please Dr,  I need a safe drug that can help me put on healthy weight fast. My target is 13kg in two months. My wedding is coming up soon and I don't want to look sick in my gown. Please, I'm tired of sitting through counseling with doctors who would recommend multivitamins. HELP ME, BIKO!

Thanks

Nkiruka Odum, Nsukka

Dear Nkiruka,

BIKO, Don't kill yourself. Yours is a petite figure. That is your nature; the way God created you. I doubt if there is much you can do to gain weight. Very likely, your husband to be loves you just the way you are. Your petite; portable figure may even be why he is attracted to you; only God and himself know. When you get pregnant and start making a family, you will obviously gain weight. Following advice from nurses who tell you what DRUGS  to use to gain weight is desperate and most unwise and unsafe. The DRUGS  are not manufactured to cause weight-gain but for some other things. Take Doxycycline for example. It is an antibiotic; broad-spectrum and is ABUSE  of drugs to say you want to use it t gain weight. You say you are health -conscious and want to gain weight in a healthy manner. I take that to mean that you do not want to add unnecessarily  to your problems. If that is so, PLEASE; BIKO;  drop all attempts to force weight gain by any means and learn to love yourself the way God Almighty created you. Beyond that is trouble that you will not like. We have said this many times before; particularly to many folks who want to use DEXACORTIN  to gain weight. Slow Poison!!

Love Gone Beyond Limits?

 Love Gone Beyond Limits?

Doctor,

 I have being reading your column in the Daily  Sun paper for long now, I never know I  will be writing to you today. I have a girl friend whom I love so very much we have being dating for the past 2 years she is 20 years old and in year 2 in college.. We love our selves so much that she asked me to have sex with her. I didn't want to do that at first because  she is a virgin and I was afraid not to have sex but for the problems of premature sex. But she told me that if I don't do it she will leave me and ask someone else to do it. I tried to make her understand reasons why we can't do it, this argument went on for 2 to 3 mouths, I know she love me very much. So I decided we will have sex. After that we had sex  on several occasions and  as a result; she is now pregnant. What should I do doctor. Please help me.

Harried Henry, Suleja

Dear Henry,

Do nothing. You are to be congratulated. You found a woman who loves you. A woman you also love. You decided to be adults and lo and behold you now have a baby to thank God for and bring up. If you know how many couples are looking for a baby, how to get love, how to settle down... but in your case it seems God overlooked your mistake and granted you a wonderful gift. Please there is no guarantee of love beyond this one and no guarantee of being able to get a baby. Your school work? Talk to yourselves and determine this will not stop you and you both should sail through. However, for you and others out there who don't know the rudiments, if you go to www.mediamedix.blogspot.com, you will learn more about how to control fertility-- get pregnant when you want and avoid pregnancy when you are not ready. You can also send me an e mail for "Fertility Awareness and Control"

I Am Always Nervous; Help!!!

 

I Am Always Nervous; Help!!!

Please Sir,

I am in a desperate need of a solution to this problem. I am a secondary school leaver. Right from my secondary school days I have been experiencing this problem. The problem is this, whenever I talk to a person, address a congregation or had an encounter with somebody, I am always nervous and after that I can not write as a result of the nervousness. Last year I visited a doctor and he told me that it is palpitation that it will stop soon but I have been waiting patiently for it to stop but to no avail. I am not comfortable with this, so I need a way out of this mess. Doctor, I hope I'm not going mad or something? Please reply via, my e-mail because as a secondary school leaver I may not be opportune to read it.
Sulaiman Afikuyomi, Ilorin

Dear Sulaiman,
Such nerves as you complain of usually have a discernible origin which a skilled doctor/psychologist/psychotherapist//psychiatrist can help you ferret out. These roots/origins are usually some conflict or the other at the base of your mind or emotions. Are there any hidden worries or anxieties or guilt or tension? These are the kinds of questions he will be looking for answers to.
Then he can tackle it. The condition is referred to as an anxiety neurosis, almost bordering on a phobia. What to do? Go seek out a professional who understands the mind -- like the ones above. Where to find them? Try General Hospitals, Specialist Hospitals; Teaching Hospitals. You can be treated. Help is available.
Madness? Oh no!!Truly, when we talk mind and psychiatry, most people think madness. Psychologists, psychotherapists and psychiatrists are not always treating madness; okay? There are much simpler, milder and harmless problems of the mind called Neuroses that we all can suffer from -- like Depression-- and they are really skilled in helping out with such concerns. Madness is another kettle of tea and I daresay your fears must be properly laid to rest by telling you what are the tell-tale features of madness-- which you do not have but which I list here just to help anyone with fears similar to yours to sort themselves out. When a person is going mad you begin to notice other symptoms apart from the ones you mentioned --things that affect the person's character especially -- character changes-- like)Coldness vs Normal Warmth; b)Concern Gone; c)May hear voices; d)Sleeplessness; e)Mannerisms and habits have changed--won't do some things they are normally very fond of;
f)Violence; g)May see things others do not see; h)Mood changes -- may be too joyful or too depressed for normal; i)Withdrawal; j)Verbal Attacks and negative words and curses on people; k)Wanting to undress in public; l)Hallucinations; m)Jumpiness and fear; n)Aggressiveness; o)Incorrigible-ness; p)Irritability-- 
q)Fights Easily; r)Paranoia -- or a feeling; frequently expressed-- that normally harmless things or people want to harm the patient; s)Quarrelsomeness-- Quarrels with everyone and everything -- fights her relatives; attacks driver; uses a knife or other harmful instruments to threaten; suddenly tears others clothing; t)Denial of reality; u)Anger, or Wrath -- as in great anger)Violence; and so on. 
All of that is bad news. The good news, of course, is that all these can be controlled and suppressed. At whatever level --whether just beginning or the one that has progressed a little bit. Just see the right professionals. Call the help-lines; send a text/ e mail       
 Cheers

Shot in My Dream; Dogs Pursuing Me; Help!!

Shot in My Dream; Dogs Pursuing Me; Help!!

Doctor,

I commend you on how you intelligently answer questions that border on health and otherwise. I will like mine to be given speedy attention.

 I have for a very long time being experiencing severe chest pains. People say it's because I smoke, but I do not smoke.

 Secondly, I heard that you are a pastor. I want to tell you that I was in a dream when a member of my church, The Redeemed Christian Church of God, shot us, three of us. And when he was questioned, he claimed it was accidental discharge! Then, we were taken to an hospital where the bullets would be extracted. The two of my colleague, one them my enemy in real life, were extracted of the bullets. Mine was shot on the head and when it was my turn, the police came and arrested the doctor!

I was crying in the dream when I woke up. So whatever I do, something reminds me that I am carrying  bullets on my head.

 Thirdly, sometimes, I see dogs pursuing me. Sometimes I see snakes staring at me! Before, I sat my JAMB I was in a dream where I failed. Even after the exams I dreamt that I failed! No I won't fail, In JESUS NAME, Amen! Doctor, please help me out.

Kukah-Agu,  Ubiam, Ebonyi  State


Dear Kukah,
You will agree that right now, you do not have any serious problems of health but only problems from the dream. Your one problem of health which is severe chest pains could be due to your psychological state of fear or near panic because of your frightful dreams and nightmares.
Only a one on one session with you can sort you out but I want to say to you that once you are ready and willing to follow instructions, you will see the very end of your troubles-- physical, psychological and spiritual.
So, call the help-line and set up a one on one session right away. Help is very available;okay? We'll be able to assess your chronic severe chest pain; why you are having these night mares and what to do to get the better of them
Expecting your call
Cheers