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Politics / Re: Arewa Youths Storm NNPC, Demand Termination Of Tompolo’s Surveillance Contract by paskalz(m): 8:26am On Aug 23, 2022
God bless you for saying the truth.
SpecialAdviser:

It's APC using that contract to make Tompolo take charge of elections in South South bro.

This protest is a good news. Beside, is this going to better the lives of ordinary South Southerners? Government should invest in uplifting their lives and not awarding one crook a contract just for election. Tompolo and Asari are just after their pockets.
Religion / Re: Reverend Sisters Dance Kizz Daniel's 'Buga' (video) by paskalz(m): 6:52am On Aug 15, 2022
Isaiah 5:20
20   Woe to those who call evil good
    and good evil,
  who put darkness for light
    and light for darkness,
  who put bitter for sweet
    and sweet for bitter!
GeneralPula:


Yes, for church. People who goes to church are humans and anything that will help you rejoice as a human is welcome..
Religion / Re: Reverend Sisters Dance Kizz Daniel's 'Buga' (video) by paskalz(m): 6:50am On Aug 15, 2022
Isaiah 5:20
20   Woe to those who call evil good
    and good evil,
  who put darkness for light
    and light for darkness,
  who put bitter for sweet
    and sweet for bitter!

Yes, for church. People who goes to church are humans and anything that will help you rejoice as a human is welcome.. [/quote]
Health / Re: Help!! What's Growing On My Skin!? by paskalz(m): 11:43pm On Jul 20, 2022
Urkele:

I cant afford the hospitals bro
By piriton(for 3 days), loratin 10(one card), then buy benzyl Benzoate Application (is a cream, rob it from your neck to your feet after bathing for 3 days). Then soak all your clothes with hot water especially your undies, including your bed sheet. This drugs won't reach 5k. You will be fine.
Health / Re: Help!! What's Growing On My Skin!? by paskalz(m): 11:39pm On Jul 20, 2022
[uote author=Urkele post=114922801]
I cant afford the hospitals bro[/quote]
By piriton(for 3 days), loratin 10(one card), then buy benzyl Benzoate Application (is a cream, rob it from your neck to your feet after bathing for 3 days). Then soak all your clothes with hot water especially your undies, including your bed sheet. This drugs won't reach 5k. You will be fine.
Health / Re: Help!! What's Growing On My Skin!? by paskalz(m): 11:27pm On Jul 20, 2022
That can be scabbies. Try and visit a doctor. Not costly to get rid off. Good luck
Religion / Re: What's Always Taking You Back To Sin? by paskalz(m): 8:55am On Jul 17, 2022
Getting money and the way of spending it.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Liverpool Vs Real Madrid UCL Final (0 - 1) On 28th May 2022 by paskalz(m): 10:16pm On May 28, 2022
Suggest android app for football live streaming
Crime / Re: Francisca Choji, Body Of Lady Dumped On Road In Jos (Photos) by paskalz(m): 8:32am On May 03, 2022
All this small girls with big big god. Is like their big god don't protect them again. SMH
Health / Re: 4000 Naira Could Have Prevented This. by paskalz(m): 8:16am On Apr 01, 2022
DrFunmisticGlow:
undecided undecided
What on earth am I talking about?
What can 4000 naira prevent?

That amount, which is slightly less than the cost of a simple first date, can save you from misery and tears in future.

It's simple, if a man and woman like each other, and have decided to either go into a relationship with marriage in view or start having unprotected sex with each other. They owe it to themselves to each go to a government hospital together for a Genotype test before committing further.

The main Genotypes available are AA, which is the ideal Red blood heamoglobin Genotype, AS which is a carrier, the less common AC, SC, and the most painful of all, SS.

A person with genotype SS is referred to commonly as a sickler because most of the time, the person is ill in the hospital for a significant amount of their life. A number of sickle cell sufferers die before their 5th birthday. The rest struggle to adulthood. Being a sickler as an adult comes with its own set of problems that not many people know.

Nobody likes to be sick. Now imagine being sick because of something your parents could have prevented.

If a couple both have AS or AC genotype, every pregnancy owned by the couple has a 25% chance of having a child with Genotype SS or SC. This means that either some or all of thier children might be affected, none at all, or they might become carriers. If gambling with unborn children is your cup of tea, don't mind me, Stop reading here.

Does sickle cell have a cure? Yes, it does.

But this is a classic example where prevention is always better than cure. I will not use medicine to explain it to you, but simple mathematics..

Paul and Paulina are in love and want to marry and have children. They give you the good news and you advice them to go for premarital screening, part of which is genotype.

Let's assume that the cost is 2000 naira per person, for 2 people, the total is 4000 naira. Now with the increasing depreciation of our currency, it will be safe to assume that a simple genotype test costs $10.

The results are out, but unfortunately, both Paul and Paulina are AS. They now have 3 options.
1. Cry about it and call off the relationship, while promising to remain friends.
2. They have invested so much in this relationship. They can still have a happy life together, but they are not willing to take the risk. So they have decided to have a childfree marriage(without children)

3. Take the chance and continue the relationship, seeing where it goes, and hope for the best when children come. (We strongly advise against this)


Many people unknowingly choose the 3rd option.

But DrFunmisticglow, you said there was a cure.
Please be patient !!!

So Paul and Paulina chose option 3 and are expecting a baby, they know there's a chance the child might have the SS genotype, is there anything they can do? Can they know what the Genotype is before the child is born?

Yes. There's a test one can do by collecting a blood sample from the unborn baby in the womb and find out it's genotype, it is usually dome in the 2nd trimester of pregnancy. The couple can then choose to abort the pregnancy if the foetus is SS. Only a few big private labs perform this test in the country. The only public place i know is sickle cell foundation opposite LUTH in lagos. As of 2 years ago, the cost of that test was 300 thousand naira. Now factor in the depreciating naira today, it wouldn't be wrong to say that for each child they want to have. Paul and Paulina have to budget about $1000 for this prenatal screening. That is not the same as $10.

The cure for sickle cell is a procedure called a bone marrow transplant. A relative of the child will donate his/ her bone marrow to the child. It has a 90% success rate.It is presently not done in Nigeria or if it is, it is still in the early stages. It has to be done in the first few months of a baby's life.
Many people choose to travel to countries like India, turkey and Rome for this procedure. As of 3 years ago, the cost of the procedure and the six months hospital stay was about 25 million, not including travel expenses and other miscallenous like visa application and so on.
But in our present economy, Budget 30- 55 million naira

How many of us can afford it?

Or they can choose to see their child suffer, while also suufering financially, emotionally, mentally, the stress if it all will eat away at the romantic bonds that they once shared.

I didn't even talk about how it affects the person, because that is a separate thread. We all know someone with this disease.


So I'll ask again.

Couldn't 4000 naira have prevented all this?

Is your love, truly worth this pain?

Know your genotype today?





greetings doc. Have been following you for a while now, how can we chat privately?
Health / Re: Case closed by paskalz(m): 9:18pm On Mar 28, 2022
websitegurufix:


You can't get hiv from MouthAction, u get wound for your panis?

Hiv is hard to ger brother but always use cd from start to finish.
No man. No wound. Thanks
Health / Re: Case closed by paskalz(m): 2:37pm On Mar 28, 2022
eddynaira125:
On PEP regularly not occasionally
I don't understand
Health / Case closed by paskalz(m): 1:18pm On Mar 28, 2022
No case
Family / Re: Traditional Wedding List Given To Me To Marry A Calabar Bride. Please Advise by paskalz(m): 8:53pm On Mar 21, 2022
Post the picture of the lady u wan marry first let me check something

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Education / Re: UNIJOS Student Commits Suicide Over ASUU Strike by paskalz(m): 9:50pm On Mar 08, 2022
ASUU don strike am dead? undecided
Health / Re: Nursing Mother Loses Her 3-Month-Old Baby At A Crèche by paskalz(m): 7:44am On Mar 07, 2022
3 months is too early to leave your struggle for 9 months to someone else to take care. Now she will freely go to work.
Smh..
Crime / Re: What Becomes Of Family And Relatives Of Criminals Whose Crime Become Public? by paskalz(m): 9:21am On Jan 31, 2022
What of the family that lost their loved ones through their act?
Jokes Etc / Re: Join This Whatsapp Comedy Group And Say Good-bye To Boredom Forever by paskalz(m): 12:57pm On Jan 30, 2022
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Family / Re: We Met On Nairaland 4 Years Ago, Now We Are Married! by paskalz(m): 9:14pm On Jan 29, 2022
And you didn't invite us undecided

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Politics / Re: Dapo Abiodun: Ogun State Has Highest Number Of Yahoo Yahoo Boys by paskalz(m): 11:47pm On Jan 22, 2022
Provide jobs for the youth and you will see all this things reduced.
Romance / Re: Man Gets Resounding ‘No’ After Proposing To His Girl At A Mall In Warri (Video) by paskalz(m): 11:21am On Jan 14, 2022
Just to impress the public... Do your thing in private, if she say yes. Proceed and meet her people and do the necessary. Now what is your gain now.

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Business / Re: CLOSED by paskalz(m): 7:25pm On Jan 13, 2022
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Sports / Is It Advisable To Open A Betking Shop Currently by paskalz(m): 11:58am On Jan 12, 2022
Is it advisable to open betking shop now. I have been seeing some betking shops closing, I don't really kmow the cause. Please people that are betking agent currently, kindly advice me. Thank you.
Programming / 3D Animation by paskalz(m): 9:47pm On Nov 22, 2021
How and where can I learn 3D animation?
Health / Re: My New Girl Friend May Leave Me Because Of My Body. by paskalz(m): 8:29pm On Jul 12, 2021
Buy longrich bamboo soap and SOD cream, it will clear gradually
Business / Re: Is It Advisable To Use Hantec Market by paskalz(m): 7:22am On Dec 14, 2020
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Business / Re: Is It Advisable To Use Hantec Market by paskalz(m): 12:20am On Dec 10, 2020
Thanks all
Business / Is It Advisable To Use Hantec Market by paskalz(m): 8:49pm On Dec 09, 2020
Is it advisable to use hantec market as your broker for fx?
Health / Re: 315 New COVID-19 Cases, 81 Discharged And 7 Deaths On June 8 - (1704 Tested) by paskalz(m): 8:22am On Jun 09, 2020
Jigawa Discharges 222 COVID-19 Patients - Health - Nairaland. Yet am seeing 81 discharged.
Family / Re: How Do I Tell My Parents I Have A Daughter? by paskalz(m): 8:58pm On Mar 10, 2020
By calling them
Crime / Re: Man Caught Having Sex With A Goat In Ekiti (Photo, Video) by paskalz(m): 8:41pm On Mar 06, 2020
So this full want to add another sickness to this world

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