Eliminate HEPATITIS

HEPATITISWHAT EXACTLY DO I NEED TO KNOW

Today is world hepatitis day. A day set aside to call global attention to the liver, its indispensability and posssible disease conditions that could affect its function. This is a simple piece written with the sole aim of achieving that. Enjoy it.Hepatitis can simply be defined as injury to the liver with inflammation of its cells. The liver is the largest internal organ located in the right side of the abdomen partly covered by the ribs. The liver helps get rid of harmful substances in the blood, participates in the digestion of the food we eat and regulates our blood sugar level in between meals amidst other functions. Its importance cannot be over emphasized and a healthy liver is essential for good quality life.

To keep our liver healthy, it is important that we are aware of the potential threats to its health and today is essentially set aside to increase the awareness of everybody to those threats. They could be infectious(i.e can spread from person to person) or non infectious.Infectious causes include:

• Hepatitis viruses

• Bacterias

• parasites

   Non infectious causes include:

• Alcohol

• Drug over dosage e.t.c

• Autoimmune conditions(here the body seems to be fighting itself)

 

 

INFECTIOUS CAUSES: Viruses, bacteria and parasites can infect the liver but more significant of these are viruses. Viral hepatitis accounts for most cases of the disease reported world wide.

About seven (7) different hepatitis viruses have been discovered. They include Hepatitis A-G viruses. Of these, Hepatitis A,B,C,D and E are more important.

Hepatitis A and E

This is transmitted through contaminated food and water.

Hepatitis B,C and D.

They can be contacted through a contact with the body fluids of an infected person. Such body fluid includes blood, semen, vaginal fluids e.t.c. They can also be transferred from an infected pregnant woman to her baby.

The infection could be acute (lasting less than six months) or chronic (lasting longer). Hepatitis A and E causes acute infection while hepatitis B and C causes chronic infection.

NON INFECTIOUS CAUSES

Alcohol : excessive consumption of alcohol over a long period can lead to hepatitis. Daily intake of eighty(80) grams of alcohol in men and forty(40) grams in women for longer than ten years is a major risk factor for developing alcoholic hepatitis.

N.B: A bottle of beer contains twelve grams of alcohol. This is much higher in spirits.

Drugs and toxic substances: drugs like paracetamol have been implicated too.

Symptoms

If you have any of the symptoms listed below, it might be due to hepatitis

• Jaundice (yellowness of the eyes and skin)

• Dark colored urine

• Pale colored stool

• Extreme tiredness

• Nausea

• Vomiting

• Loss of appetite

• Abdominal pain

• Mild unintentional weight loss

• No symptoms at all.

PREVENTION:

• Get tested today: Every body should be screened. That is the starting point. If the screening shows that you have any of the viruses, see your doctor.

• Avoid contaminated food and water

• Practice safe sex

• Drink healthy( avoid excessive consumption of alcohol)

• Take only drugs prescribed by your doctor and at the recommended dose.

• Get vaccinated. Ask your doctor for the hepatitis vaccine.

        Wishing you a happy world hepatitis day as you make a decision to help your liver stay healthy.

 

 

A MUST FOR MUAs: 52 Weeks Planner For A Professional Makeup Artist

So I caught up with an Old friend, One of the very first MUAs I know and he told me of this book of hers and I was so eager to support and be a part of it. After much persuasion to her shy self, she finally granted us this short interview.

Let’s meet you?

My name is Fisayo Omolaja, CEO/Creative director, Vissy’s Imagination Makeovers, a makeup outfit based in Lagos, Nigeria. I was trained by a U.K based makeup artist in 2006 and since then I have been running my own make up business and other businesses too.

Sojourn in the industry

Having spent 9years in the industry, I encountered a few challenges such as tracking my financial and business performance, organising events such as video/Photoshoot, consultations, acquiring detailed desires of all my clients, so I thought of “A PLANNER” that can do all of that for me and fellow MUAs.

Tell us about your new book

“52 Weeks Planner For A Professional Makeup Artist” is specially designed for every aspiring and existing Makeup Artists to collate, keep clients’ data, track financial and business performance, can also be used as receipt booklets for clients and many more. Basically 52 Weeks Planner for a PRO MUA is designed to do over 10 things, It is a 1 year planner for all your activities and a workbook to log everything about your business on as a PRO Makeup Artist. One of the benefits of using this book is that it is easy to use and understand.

It is a first of its kind ever and I consider it a MUST-HAVE for everyone. Thank you. Muaahhhh

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#BREAKING APC Gubernitorial Primaries result is out

Here are the Total results for the Lagos State APC governorship primaries just completed this morning since yesterday morning. Now we can tell who the APC gubernitorial candidate will be. See results below:-

Ikuforiji – 182 votes

Hamzat – 1201 votes

Leke Pitan – 112 votes

Tokunbo Wahab – 7 votes

Tayo Ayinde – 17 votes

GOS -272 votes

Lanre Ope- 0 vote

Adekunle Disu – 9 votes

Abayomi Sutton – 0 vote

Tola Kasali – 69 votes

Supo Shasore – 121 votes

Akinwunmi Ambode 3735 votes

Reporting live from Onikan Stadium for tharev.wordpress.com

‘MAID FROM HELL’ OPENS UP ON WHY SHE BEAT UP THE BABY

Arnella Kamanzi, the 18-month-old baby who was tortured by a maid early this month was yesterday admitted at the pediatric section in Mulago Hospital for further medical examinations.

“The baby was brought here for examinations and a number of tests will be done to establish whether she is in good health,” confirmed a source at the national referral hospital.

Jolly Tumuhiirwe, the maid who is the main actress in the ‘horror movie’ has been charged with attempted murder and she is due to appear in court on Dec. 08, 2014.

Speaking from Luzira prison, Jolly Tumuhiirwe has asked the ‘world’ to forgive her for what she did..she said;

“My dad in Kabale was very sick and yet my mom did not have any money. I asked my bosses for some money to send to my dad but they told me that I hadn’t made a month yet and my father was dying, so it kept on haunting me.”
“That is the more reason I referred the anger to the baby but I’m sorry. But that madam (Arnella’s mom) is not easy. She used to say that I steal money from the clothes and Eric’s wallet, I eat the babies food…and yet I can’t eat the food, I’m not a baby, those were all lies, so, I was also not happy from my heart.”
“I feel guilty..ok when I was doing it I thought I was disciplining the baby because also the mother sometimes slaps her, I also saw from the mom. The torch I used was small and it’s not hard. I think, I will never do it again”

..of her experience in Prison, she said;
“It’s not good at all even my fellow prisoners don’t want to associate with me, they want to beat me up. In fact they were saying that I should join them in their rooms, nobody likes me and I’m feeling bad I will never do it again, I ask the world to forgive me and also tell the bosses who have maids to treat them well.”

Source: Ugandaonline.net

FULL LIST OF DONORS TO PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN’S PRESIDENTIAL NORMINATION FORM

See full list of those who donated for Jonathan to pick PDP form 1. Mr. Kennedy Ikenna Odoeme – N5, 000
2. Mr Ezemagu Sunday Nnamdi – N10, 000
3. PDP Governors – N22 Million
4. Transformation Agenda of Nigeria (TAN) – N22m
5. Ogbia LGA Stakeholders, Bayelsa state – N5m
6. Otuoke Community Stakeholders – N2m
7. Brass LGA Stakeholders, Bayelsa state – N50, 000
8. Bayelsa State PDP Stakeholders- N5m
9. Northern Youths Forum – N2m
10. Central Market Traders Union, Kaduna State – N1m
11. PDP Stakeholders, Zaria LGA – N500, 000
12. PDP Stakeholders, Yobe State – N500, 000
13. PDP Stakeholders, Kaduna State- N2m
14. Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore – N5m
15. The Goodluck Support Group, Gombe State – N1m
16. Adamawa State PDP Stakeholders – N3m
17. Ebonyi State PDP Stakeholders- N2m
18. Kogi State PDP Stakeholders – N5m
19. Rivers State PDP Stakeholders – N5m
20. The 2015 Project – N1m
21. Team Goodluck, Ondo North Senatorial District – N5m
22. Middle Belt PDP Women Support Group for GEJ 2015 – N500, 000 23. King David Generation Foundation, Jos – N200, 000
24. Behwong Weneng Yere Duk, Jos – N200,000
25. Redemption 3 Youth Organization, Plateau State – N500, 000 26. Plateau State Indigenes ASSOCIATION, Abuja – N300,000
27. Gombe Youth United for Goodluck Ebele Jonathan 2015 – N500, 000 28. Gombe Youth Vanguard for PDP- N500, 000
29. Yamahu/Deba Goodluck Support Group – N200, 000
30. Coalition of Gombe Support Groups for Goodluck Ebele Jonathan – N2m 31. Hinna Youth Coalition for Goodluck – N500, 000
32. Nigerian Women Pray for Jonathan – N1m
33. National ASSOCIATION of Widows – N100, 000
34. National Council of Women Societies – N500, 000
35. Female members of the PDP Board of Trustees – N500,000
36. Joint ASSOCIATION of Persons with Disabilities – N100,000 37. National Association of Market Women – N500, 000
38. Community Awareness and Development NETWORK – N1m.

And all he needed was 24mill to pick the form!

Now APC should be scared!!!

#EBOLA: THE UNTOLD TRUE STORY(as revealed by Prof. Francis Boyle)

Professor Boyle drafted the U.S. Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, which is the U.S. domestic implementing legislation for the Biological Weapons.

He recently said:”Different United States government agencies have a long history of doing allegedly defensive biological warfare research at labs in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This includes the CDC, which is now the point agency for managing the Ebola spill-over into the United States.

Why is the Obama administration dispatching the elite 101st Airborne Division to Liberia when they have no medical training to provide medical treatment to dying Africans? How did Zaire/Ebola get to West Africa from about 3,500 kilometers away from where it was first identified in 1976?

“Why is the CDC not better prepared for this emergency after the United States government has spent somewhere in the area of $70 billion dollars after the October 2001 anthrax attacks to prepare for this exact contingency? It is clear that those anthrax attacks originated from United States government sources.”.

The New York Times reported in 2010: “More than eight years after anthrax-laced letters killed five people and terrorized the country, the F.B.I. on Friday closed its investigation, adding eerie new details to its case that the 2001 attacks were carried out by Bruce E. Ivins, an Army biodefense expert who killed himself in 2008.”

More than 3,860 people have died in the worst Ebola outbreak in history and the first to have occurred in West Africa. It began in southern Guinea in February and spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. The World health Organization (WHO) says it could infect some 20,000 people before it is brought under control.

What do you think of this story?

*culled from CNN iReport

I Quit My Job – And It Was My Biggest Mistake Ever

I actually did quit my Job and after a very unusually long month of searching, I wanted to write about it, only to find out someone elsa had relived my experience and wrote about it. He captured my story(even though its his) perfectly well. Here it is from Björn Jonasson (vVD / Vice President):

A couple of years ago I decided to quit my job without having a new employment. My friends and former colleagues said I was “brave”, “courageous” and “did the right thing”. Some also told me that they “wished they had the courage to do exactly the same thing” and that it would be a “fantastic feeling” to do it. For me it was my biggest career mistake I could have done.

The background was that I had been working in the institutions of the European Union a couple of years after I graduated. Those employments are by their nature short term employments and connected to some risk, which I knew from the start. When my contract one day ended I decided to stay in public affairs and applied for a position at a well renowned communications agency. After a selection of over 430 applicants I was called to the interview and case stages and was after that one out of seven to be offered an employment. It felt really great and I had high expectations, having landed a fantastic job I thought.

Unfortunately the agency underwent a huge expansion at this time which required new structures that weren’t yet in place. They had done and did exceptionally well in national and international contests, winning almost everything that was out there. So, even though the agency grew stronger, I felt misplaced and misused in the organization. I felt that I performed too simple tasks, wasn’t given the opportunity to contribute with my previous developed skills and felt under stimulated. So I got frustrated, angry, felt misunderstood and my ego took a hit – to the point after four months when I from one day to another just quit without having any new employment. And here is why that was a huge mistake.

1. Emotionally

Even though it felt great to quit that job when I did it, that feeling didn’t last long. This was in May and one would think that it was the best month to quit a job, having all summer off. The truth is that even though I indeed had the longest summer ever, I also felt more and more miserable because of the difficulties of getting a new job. Recruiting agencies don’t have a lot of jobs during summers and companies don’t employ before or under the summer. So if my ego was hurt before, it was nothing compared to how I felt during that summer. My value had gone from top to bottom within a couple of months.

2. Financially

That summer I had trips planned and paid for to Tokyo, Paris and southern Italy. I went on all. These trips, a summer at home and a rent to pay of course heavily affected my savings account, to say the least. Since it was my own decision to quit I wasn’t entitled to any support from the government, which I never thought I would be in the position to ask for and which in itself was a peculiar feeling having double degrees. One could say that those minutes of a feeling of freedom were the most expensive minutes I will probably ever experience in my life.

3. Career wise

Quitting a job without having anything new coming, no matter what, is extraordinary short sighted career wise. It took me three months to get a new job and I was at that time in no position to be picky. Before getting a new employment I sat down, gathered my mind and really thought of how to maximize my outcome of getting a job where I would do really good and enjoy. I have always performed well in sales and communication and like the energy of having a lot of people around me. So I decided to look for a sales job, which I finally got. But that also meant that I had to start from the bottom again and work myself up, prove myself once again and enter a new business once again. Had I stayed with the communications agency or in that business but at another agency, I would not have had to spend a couple of years doing all from the beginning again. Career wise it could have gone downhill from there.

But I was lucky, there is really no other way I can see it. I liked my new job right from start. It was a great company to work at, I had friendly and professional colleagues and a fantastic boss. She believed in me from the beginning and little by little I got my self-confidence back, my energy was reaching its former levels and with that came good results.

Looking at that time in retrospect when I quit that job I can’t blame anyone or anything for what happened. It was just bad timing and I was at the wrong place at the wrong time. What I learned is that sometimes it happens and the only thing one can do when it does is to have a plan to get out of there. That plan for me, should it happen again, would be to start looking for new jobs, but at the same time stay positive and try to distance myself as much as possible from the surroundings but still get the job done. And be convinced that in time that plan would always lead me to a new job without putting everything at stake.

What happened me stronger but I would never do it again, because it came with a big price and could have ruined a promising career.

What about you? Have you any similar experiences and how did you pick your career back up again?

Culled from LinkedIn

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