Dr Wisdom Health Corner

10/12/2025

PAY ATTENTION TO POSSIBLE HEALTH CONCERNS AS WE GEAR TOWARDS THE FESTIVE SEASON.

1. For those who would travel long distances, by road or air: There is something called DVT or PE( clot formation in the veins) that can occur following travelling long distances. Anybody who gets it may have leg swelling/pain or chest pain, shortness of breath and or coughing out blood. This is an emergency that must be assessed and treated immediately.

2. For those with chronic illnesses: Remember to travel with your medications and take them as planned with your doctor. There is a chance to forget going with them or not taking them because of the euphoria of the season. For an individual with Diabetes or Hypertension, abandoning medications could be catastrophic.

3. Dietary Restriction: Remember to stay away from foods you normally do not eat because of health grounds and other reasons. There would be pressure to eat what others are having to please them. Please do not displease your health to make people happy.

4. Alcohol Consumption Restriction: There would be the temptation to ingest lots of it during this season because one is on holiday or for the reason that it is supplied in large amounts and freely at one’s disposal. For those who take it, the maximum expected quantity for an individual in a week is 14units( 6pints of beer or 1 and half bottle of wine). Binge drinking could cause lost immediate health complications like Acute Pancreatitis, Acute Gout, DKA( for diabetics), intestinal bleeding, etc.

5. If you are going to an area where you may be more exposed to malaria bites than usual, you can take malaria preventive medications before leaving.

Finally, ensure you pay attention to your body by identifying any strange feelings occurring and act promptly without procrastination.
Thanks.

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11/10/2025

Hear the story of my neighbour.

She woke up one day and embarked on a long distance journey. It was about 9 hours on a road trip.

They had about 1 stop for leg stretches as they moved. Before this sister could get to her intended destination she was already tired as they went through some roads, which appeared hilly, littered with pot holes.

Finally, she arrived, checked into her hotel room, had a bath and went straight to bed.
She woke up early about 5am with sudden swollen and painful left leg. It was so painful that she shouted for help. Other lodgers came out to see what was happening.

She managed to show them the state of her leg which obviously was swollen and shinny. Lady was shy to expose her thigh area where it also affected.

Nobody there could exactly tell what possibly could have happened to this woman’s limb. Someone brought her pain medication and another suggested to check the nearest hospital.

If I was there, I could have told her she has possibly gotten a condition called Deep Vein Thrombosis(DVT).
This is an abnormal clot formation in the deep vein and that it happened because she was immobile for a long period of time, during her road trip.

The only way to find out if this had happened would have been to do a vein scan called Doppler ultrasound of the affected leg.
If scan reveals it to be true;
Doctor would start treating with
- blood thinning meds
- advise leg elevation
- compression stockings use.

A complication of this could lead to the clot travelling to the lungs through blood circulation causing another form of it called Pulmonary Embolism(PE), which could also be fatal if not identified and treated promptly.

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