Food Eaten In Dreams

Food Eaten In Dreams Dear Dr, I have been afflicted of food ate in the dream years back—I always experience some movement in the stomach and a kind of discomfort at the left side. Doctor, please tell me what to do Bello Biyi, Babalosa, Mushin Lagos Dear Bello, Medically you have discomfort in the left side of your abdomen; movement in the stomach both of which you associate with a ream in which you ate food a number of years before now. You are uncomfortable and unwell enough to seek medical help. We must first assume that all your problems are physical and so we need to see you for interview, physical examination and appropriate tests. Let us assume you have gone through all this and found nothing the matter physically. We would be thinking of Peptic Ulcer, Gall Bladder disease, Worm infestation, Chronic Pancreatitis and would like to have made sure each one of these have been totally ruled out of your case and that you are free of them. Moving objects in the body are almost always psychological—never physical or organic; meaning that after extensive investigations, we generally find nothing the matter with any of your organs, nothing moving in your system; just a feeling that things are moving. This feeling is generally due to a conflict or challenge you are facing in your life; some stress or the other that your mind is unable to resolve – even though it may be and usually is all subconscious and you may not be fully aware of it. It is this unresolved conflict that manifests as feelings of moving things in your body – some say its worms, some say its peppery, some say its ants, some feel vibrations etc, etc. What really is happening according to medical science is that your mind, trying to get your attention, now presents this challenge conflict or stress in the language that you can understand – that of bodily symptoms—so as to get your attention to fully resolve the conflicts.The turning of the problem into physical feeling we refer to as Somatisation; so another name for your affliction is Somatisation Syndrome. The correct – and often very helpful treatment for this kind of problem is psychological counseling and some medicines that work on the mind and a careful doctor should be able to help you with such remedies and get you well again. Eating in the dream in our Nigerian culture is not a good portent; it is seen as a spiritual attack. For things spiritual, use a combination of prayers, fasting, scriptures, deliverance, counseling, and so on. Physicians who are comfortable with spiritual matters, but who have a solid base of medical training with a good appreciation of the psychological – those are the professionals you need. In this connection, there is a book we authored years ago called Destroying the Strongholds of Witchcraft and Human Agents of Satan. It is a useful resource for you and can be obtained through us. Cheers Dr. Caleb Bibbi Oluranti

False Pregnancy, Blocked Tubes --can I Conceive?

Dear Dr, I have a blocked tube, I have been trying to conceive for the past 2yrs and 6months all to no avail, have read about this false pregnancy I was also a victim, I stopped seeing the woman because she said I came pregnant but I still see my normal period the pregnancy is not growing in any way and she keeps telling me that am my baby is fine. I also take Dexamethasone just to blow me up. Doc, please tell me if this also affects my inability to conceive. Thank you, Ama, Abuja. Dear Ama, You cannot be taking Dexamethasone and expect things to be okay with you as it is a steroidal drug and these drugs are very delicate-- only to be prescribed by doctors- they are not just over -the-counter remedies that anybody can buy and use as they fancy; okay? I do not know that dexamethasone affects a woman’s ability to conceive but wouldn’t be surprised if it does; SO PLEASE STOP IT NOW. Now false pregnancy (pseudocyesis) is another matter. Commonly found with ladies who are too anxious to get pregnant as well as those who are too anxious NOT to get pregnant, the definition is when a woman believes she is pregnant when there is no objective evidence – either the scan or urine tests or blood test--- all are negative; yet the lady still believes she is pregnant, principally because she has a protuberant abdomen, and maybe because she has certain feelings she has associated with pregnancies before that. Certainly this has left the level of the physical and is squarely a matter of the mind, beliefs and perception. This is why I believe anyone can see that a purely physical approach to the management of pseudocyesis is inadequate. The psycho spiritual must be taken into consideration, of course along with the physical so that we have a more thorough and holistic appraisal of the challenge. Now, most medical doctors have no training in or appreciation of matters none physical. Even the psychological which should not be too far from the doctor’s diagnostic tool-kit leaves too many doctors out of their depth; not to talk of the spiritual. But let it be on record that there are cases of this nature who have been dismissed as cranks who have successfully gone on (albeit with serious spiritual intervention such as prayer and deliverance) to have the same babies that had disappeared from the radar screen of science. You will need to see us one on one; the truth is we can help you or anyone suffering like you. Go ahead and contact us and as you follow instructions, you will be pleasantly surprised. Cheers

Foul Smelling Vaginal Discharge

Foul Smelling Vaginal Discharge

Dear Dr,
Please I’m a woman of 28 years. Whenever I have sex with my husband, the vaginal fluid coming out from my vagina is always very foul smelling and the smell lingers on for the whole day. Please is it a sign of infection and what type of infection...I just want to know what I am going to treat?
28, Married and Messed-Up, Makurdi

Dear Married and Messsed-Up,
What you are going to treat? My professional guess is a disease called Bacterial vaginosis or Gardnerellosis. You will soon know why. You see, there are many causes of Vaginal Discharge. I’ve listed them in my write-up on this page before now and you can update yourself at www.mediamedix.blogspot.com and www.drbibbi.com. What should be done about each specific type of Vaginal Discharge has also been discussed and will be found in the same place. A quick re-hash and summary here will do as we consider some 12 causes of vaginal discharge. First you must understand that all women have NORMAL vaginal discharge which is white or milky white like akamu or milk and doesn’t smell and doesn’t itch. When women are ovulating, there’s INCREASED but NORMAL discharge; this also happens during pregnancy –we call this leucorrhea. Need we say that before sex AND after sex vaginal discharge also necessarily increases? These five basically give a picture of normal vaginal discharge – no smell, no itching, not too plenty and totally normal in looks. When discharge from the vagina is abnormal as in too plenty, smells, itches, or is abnormal in any other way, these are caused by disease and I’ll discuss five infections and two others to make 12. Gonorrhea will cause a discharge that is yellow or maybe white and thick like pus; also painful urination and burning or itching of the genitals. Candidiasis causes an over-plenty white and horribly itchy discharge. Trichiomoniasis has a thin frothy discharge; non white maybe gray, greenish or yellow, plentiful and a strong bad smell and a bad itch. Bacterial Vaginosis will cause a very mild itch if any, and plenty smelly (maybe fish-like odour) thin gray discharge that is notorious for appearing especially after intercourse. Chlamydia’s discharge –when there is one -- because 75% of women have no symptoms at all -- is generally not thick but thin, cloudy-white but definitely abnormal and just may smell. There is some itchiness or burning especially with urination. Those are five infections--gonorrhea; candidiasis; trichomoniasis;bacterial vaginosis and chlamydia. Finally, the two conditions -- a foreign body in the vagina – like a forgotten menstrual tampon-- will cause a foul discharge. And after the birth of a baby every mother has a discharge called lochia for at least 6 weeks.
My dear, the only way to find out which of these is afflicting you is to go see a doctor who will carefully listen to you , interview you properly and then order appropriate tests, especially the one called called “High Vaginal Swab” or HVS with microscopy, culture and sensitivity” (m,c,s) which will help to tell what exactly it is and how to treat it. It is because of the association of the discharge to sex that I began with the provisional diagnosis of Bacterial Vaginosis. Cheers

Cerebro-spinal Meningitis or Cerebral Malaria?

Hello Doctor, I first of all want to let you know that I appreciate all your efforts in helping people out of their problems. I am 17 years old. I had cerebrospinal meningitis two years ago. Since then I could not walk properly again. Please doctor I felt sick again two months ago and somebody told me that it was cerebral malaria again. Please Doctor Bibbi kindly send me a mail telling me the causes of this sickness and tell me -- can someone have this disease again after treating it before? Tell me the causes and effects of this disease and can someone have it relapse? Kabir Qudus, Kafanchan Dear Kabir, Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) is not, I repeat, not the same disease as Cerebral Malaria - you seem to have confused them. You see, Cerebrospinal Meningitis, which is different from Cerebral Malaria is of two types. The one that occurs in epidemic proportions especially in the North of Nigeria caused by the germ referred to as the meningococcus (Neisseria Meningitidis is its scientific name) is the first type. And the none-epidemic type that is common in the South of Nigeria is the second type--caused by the germs Haemophilus influenza and Diplococcus Pneumoniae and many other germs (even Staphylococcus)! Overcrowding, high humidity, prolonged dry season, reduction of mass immunity to a particular strain of the disease, fake or substandard vaccination and unhygienic conditions cause this disease to spread by respiratory droplet infection from carriers that usually have no symptoms. The first type can be prevented by taking the vaccine prepared against this very deadly disease that kills hundreds of hapless folk in the North seasonally. If one has already suffered it once (which is the same as taking the vaccine) he isn't likely to contact it again. So be assured you are safe concerning CSM. Unless, of course you got a fake vaccine as is common in our country and as I mentioned. But as you know, anyone can get malaria at any time and even though malaria tends to affect the extremes of age - little kids and the elderly- as well as pregnant women more severely (and is therefore prone to cause cerebral malaria more easily among them) it can still happen to anyone - including you. That is why, if I were you, I'd take my health more seriously. Because whether the one or the other - Cerebrospinal Meningitis or Cerebral Malaria, any of them can kill so easily; so please don't waste time: waiting two months before appropriately responding to the challenge of the new illness is playing with fire - although, ironically, neither of these two diseases will leave you comfortable enough to be asking questions by mail if you were really struck by them - they strike suddenly and kill (or at least paralyze, blinden, or deafen etc) within days or at most weeks - the correct response is still for you to go see a doctor face to face and have him sort out what the matter is with you. Your unfortunate paralyzed condition is enough cause of grief; don’t allow yourself to die for nothing! I hope you do understand GO SEE A DOCTOR TODAY!!! Cheers Dr Caleb Bibbi Oluranti

ACHING ANUS AND WET DREAMS

Dear Doctor, Good day sir. I have a kind of ache in my anus. It was not there before. I just saw it and if I go to excrete I sometimes feel pain. I don't know what to do. I would be glad to hear from you soon. Dennis Saggei, Warri, Delta Dear Dennis, If you feel this pain principally when you go to stool and you do not bleed, then we can safely assume that perhaps your stools are hard--in other words you get constipation and that it is this constipated, hard stools that are the cause of the aching anus. You must understand that hard stools are the leading cause of a dozen or so conditions that can ache your anus; especially if associated with stooling. Other conditions are a)Cuts in the skin or tissues(we call these fissure-in-ano) of the anus --again; dry hard stools cause this, leading to b)infection and maybe c)a boil or d)an abscess. This may end up as d)a "fistula-in-ano" when the pus from the abscess causes a track in the tissues as it tries to find it's way out. e)Injury to the bum as well as e)Anal sex f)Pile or hemorrhoids especially when they are clotted and g)infected; h)STD's and proctalgia fugax,a self limiting condition common among teenagers as well as i)prolapse of the rectum; common among women who have delivered many babies -- ALL can also cause aching anus. It is only after you have seen a good doctor and he has listened to your full description of the problem, cross examined and physically looked you up can anyone say which of these causes you have. Before you see the doctor, these half a dozen measures will help you tremendously a)Sit on warm water at least twice a day --sitz bath it's called b) Drink lots of water--up to 10 glasses a day--2 each on waking and rising and at each meal; c)Eat a good portion of one of these fruits/vegetables daily so as to get plenty of fibre into your gut which will automatically soften your stool--pawpaw, pineapple, garden eggs, water melon, cucumber, apples and golden melon-- d)Go to stool once nature calls--do not delay until it is unbearable; e)Get lots of exercise; f)-- and I call this "Dr Oluranti's Technical Knock Out"-- use some Vaseline or other lubricant on your finger to lubricate your anal canal before you stool and no matter how hard the stools, they will be easily and greasily slipped out of your system with great relief. Try these and give me feedback Cheers Dr Caleb Bibbi Oluranti WET DREAMS AND MARRIAGE? Dear Doctor, Is it normal for a man who has not known any woman to be having wet- dreams? That is, after having dreamt of seeing a woman (either naked or not) and in the process, through an instinct; his body releases watery substance (sperm). How normal or abnormal is it? When he now want to relate with his wife can this affect the release of sperm having experience wet-dreams before? How true is it that one should meet his wife 15 days after her period? What happens if one does so before or after the completion of 15 days? What method does a man who did not have initial experience with any woman apply when meeting his wife for the first time? Or how does he go about it having no experience with a woman before? Babalo Mauhe, Kogi Dear Babalo, Wet dreams are very common among adolescent(teenage) and young adult males but can happen to any male at any age. They are of two major types--the normal and the abnormal. The first is normal wet dreaming. Again, this normal type has two categories. The first category of normal happens once in a while and is because the system keeps producing millions of sperm cells which are not used up in a male that is not sexually active. Just like a woman menstruates every month when she is not gotten pregnant so also does a man who is not sexually active release an accumulation of sperm cells via wet dreams once in a while. This is a normal thing. The second category of normal is when a man stimulates himself --through over concentration in his mind or with his eyes or thoughts on the opposite sex. This will cause a normal excitement of his system which will result in wet dreams more often than the first category. We can see and understand that this type is psychological. There are two types of abnormal wet dreaming. The first is physical only. It happens because the man has a disease called Chronic Prostatitis.This wet dreaming is frequent and many times, vivid--the man sees himself actually having sex in the dream and releasing semen as a result. Or he may not really have the sex but just be in preparation to. Chronic Prostatitis has other clinical features -- discharge from the prostate without any sexual stimulation; back ache and or other varieties and types of pain in the pelvis--things moving in the organ; painful penis scrotum, testes; groin; pudendum(underneath the genitals), anus etc etc; sexual inadequacy of all types -- especially premature ejaculation that was not present before; frequency of urination and so on. Again, there may be no symptoms or signs at all. It is diagnosed by carefully seeking germs and an appropriate immune reaction in either the urine and/or the semen or the prostatic fluid -- sometimes after the patient has voided urine. Many germs can cause prostatitis -- some of them are E. Coli; Staphylococccus; Candida; trichomoniasis, viruses--among the non-sexually transmitted ones and gonorrhea and chlamydia among the sexually transmitted. The second type of abnormal wet dreaming, I am afraid, is spiritual more than physical. Here, a man has a sexual encounter with a lady and three or four things begin to happen from the time he had the encounter. a) Sexual Inadequacy of various types descend on him-- premature ejaculation, only one round, weak erection and so on. b)He begins to have wet dreams c)In these wet dreams the particular girl or lady he had the index sexual encounter with becomes very prominent--as in he either begins to see her or her cohorts in the dreams more frequently or the location or elements of his encounter with her continue to plague him either in the dreams or in the mind and d) He often also has a Chronic prostatitis --which may or may not have any symptoms. This category of men usually receive treatment for Chronic Prostatitis over and over again but either never get well or never get well fully or get well now but fall ill later(usually after another bout of this their wet dreaming--but he may not know, poor man!!). They may also notice they have dwindling financial fortunes and difficulty making babies and or progress in other ways. The remedy is to see a doctor/urologist who also understands the link between the physical, the mental and the spirirtual and like you can discern from this answer we have helped many folks tackle this very delicate problem before and can confidently say we get total cures for those who strictly follow the treatment regimens which we give them.Chronic Prostatitis, you see, is a very notoriously difficult ailment to treat by any practitioner--doctor, urologist or alternative anywhere in the world. Now can a man with no sexual experience get these problems? Yes. The last type can come on a man even if he had nothing to do with the said girl--all she needs is to pick a strong interest in him --she can--and often does -- meet him in the dreams, remember? As for the psychological type -- of course a man can also have it without sex. The physical and normal type of wet dreaming, we have said occurs mainly in the unmarried or the married who have, in recent times, not been sexually active. Inexperience with sex before marriage is not a bad thing if the man is willing to learn--either from his wife or from books or from experts.Of course the wife, too, may not know too much so we are definitely not advocating that you wait take lectures from your wife. It is very bad if a man will behave like someone I met recently who was suffering from premature ejaculation dating back to since he began having sex--a well to do, educated man who asked me -- what is premature ejaculation? It transpired that he did not know; was guilty of it and all he did during sex with wife or girl-friends was just satisfy himself. He did not know he had to help his partner to reach orgasm during sex!!! We have written a manual that will help you if you are in this category. Just send us an e mail to find out how to get it. In summary, get books to educate yourself so you can be ready for your matrimonial privileges/duties. You'll also learn there is no magic about 15 days after menses to have sex for babies --if you'll reach out and read up on these things, that is. You don't need to turn promiscous--that carries the risk of STD's and HIV/AIDS. Cheers Dr Caleb Bibbi Oluranti

Chest Pain-- Some Root Causes

Dear Doctor, I am a frequent reader of your column, which I find very useful. Please keep up the good work. I have been having this chest pain for a very long time - like four years. I thought it maybe happening only whenever I lift something heavy but nowadays it really affects me with my breathing. I went to the clinic and they told me it was Staphylococcus and they gave me Cyfran with B-complex. I was relieved for 2 weeks, but since the beginning of this week I have been having these pains. So doc, I really need your help. Please reply immediately through my mail, as I do not want this published. Roger Badmus, Ikorodu Dear Roger, Do not worry about your much valued privacy - we change names and cities; but never your question or content of your query. Okay? You see, your description of your problem is too vague: you need to give more details. Because of this it is impossible to help you with any amount of certainty - I really can’t say what is the matter with you However here are some ten causes of Chest pain. 1) Musculo-skeletal pain from poor posture in sitting, sleeping or driving 2) Heart Disease as in Heart attack, 3) Pneumonia 4) Other infections of the lungs like TB 5) Injury or Trauma 6) Peptic Ulcer Disease/Esophagitis 7) Psychological Stress 8)Pleurisy which is inflammation of the inner lining of the lungs - a common cause of pain with breathing like you describe 9) Asthma or other Bronchitis whether severe or mild 10) Smoking - smokers have a greater load of all kinds of aches and pains all over the body; not only in the chest alone. You’ll need to see a doctor face to face to listen to your symptoms, get a proper examination done and order laboratory investigations. Maybe even an X-ray. Only then can anyone pontificate as to your diagnosis. Meantime look for and use the painkillers that are in the market. Staphylococcus? I sincerely don’t think so. Why then did you get well using drugs prescribed for it? Maybe just psychology - we call it the placebo effect where one tends to get better just because of the psychologic re assurance that one has seen the doctor. Or maybe, truly you have a pleurisy, which may very well respond to antibiotics. See a good physician Cheers

Healed of Cancer

Dear Dr, Early last year, by Barium enema Xray studies, sigmoidoscopy, biopsy and histopathology, I was diagnosed with cancer of the sigmoid colon. The MRI scan showed that the tumor was a macro growth of about 1.5cm. The doctors said the placement of the cancer and its likely spread which they believed had already set in neurosurgeon at the Singapore general hospital said that if I had seen him later, the tumor would ha, accounted for my low back pain, difficulty with stooling, increasing inability to walk and general weakness; that it wasn’t a surprise that by the time I was seeing them in hospital, I needed a wheelchair to get around. I was presented with two options; immediate surgery to remove the tumor [the risk of surgery was that besides a 20% failure rate, I could become totally paralyzed and unable ever to walk again, or medication [I was told that would take a long time to work and most patients only experience a shrinkage in the tumor after a year or so]. What the doctors had found out and said about the tumor was devastating news to me and my family. I remember telling myself that if I were to become totally crippled, I would not want to live anymore. It was during this time that my family resolved to come to see you as a medical doctor in your facility and you assured us that with God on our side as we commit the whole thing to God, to trust and rely on him entirely and pray for healing as well as go ahead with taking medication, nutritional supplements and herbs and other complementary treatment. During this time, you also emphasized that what I was thinking – what I used my mind to accept, believe and imagine mattered a lot; quite apart from my taking my medicines and praying as seriously as I could. You warned me to beware of evil thoughts that query God’s goodness to me in which I was constantly plagued with questions like, “does God love me anymore?” “Does he even care?” “Is he punishing me for something wrong I have done? Shouldn’t I just grit my teeth and just accept the situation instead of trying to fight it? It wasn’t too long when your combination of medicine for body, mind and spirit began to work its wonders. Within a month, the tumour shrank to half its size and I began to walk again. You were not impressed but told me we must go on until we totally uprooted the evil from my domain—body soul and spirit. You and your workers were relentless in your prayers, encouragement and treatment with the combination of complementary medicine you gave me. Significantly, you were always most interested in the content of my dreams—as you said something I feel is total genius – that my dreams are “spiritual laboratory”—just like when you have to do medical laboratory and investigations to “manage a case properly” were your words. My confidence and encouragement grew as I gained strength by the day—your total confidence in the efficacy of your methods, you see, could not but positively infect the most depressive skeptic. By 7 weeks (which you had promised), all my tests were negative –the tumour was nowhere to be found; it was totally and completely gone and I was fully restored to perfect health. Now 3 months later, I am writing to inform you that the last and most important part of the picture has fallen in place—my wife has confessed in church (privately to the ministers during a powerful revival service when the preacher insisted on pain of death that only a confession could save her) that she was in an adulterous relationship where she was aware that the man had worked tirelessly by spiritual means to get rid of me so as to marry her!!! You will remember that my dreams at the material time kept showing a close female relative coming to visit me with a male friend of hers (both of whom I never recognized) to shoot me with a gun. I have since forgiven her. I am most thankful to you and your cocksure confidence that “cancer is not incurable—all we need is courage, conviction and confidence in God who created all things”. Once again, I want to thank you and pray for God to really enlarge your coast. God bless you and thanks once again. Labaz Dakota, Alaba Lagos Dear Labaz, Well,in Orthodox medicine, we never really talk of healing with cancer; we talk only of 5year survival rates. In your case with colon cancer at stage IV, we are talking of a mere 6% survival rate at 5years; 95% would have died in 5 years. That means we are so used to cancer being impossible to heal that we never believe any good news until after the person is still alive after 5 years—because almost all are dead by then, you see. However, in your case the growth, the pain and the bane are all clean gone –what else? All the tests show that you are HEALED! CONGRATS! And with your decision to forgive, I see you really living long .That your cancer? Let’s just give all the glory to God and let’s all learn that even cancer has natural remedies that work. And I mean any type of cancer. So if you or a relative have issues with cancer, just call the help-lines NOW. Cheers