Vitamin A toxicity
Vitamin A toxicity, also called hypervitaminosis A, is a serious and even life-threatening condition. It is mainly due to excessive dietary intake in animal foods (liver, fish oil), fortified foods, and sometimes …
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Kuber is just as addictive and dangerous
In most parts of the world tobacco is used for smoking, whereas, in Kenya, tobacco is used for smoking as well as other diverse smokeless forms. Smokeless tobacco products range …
Read MoreWhy prolonged high dose vitamin K is needed for anticoagulant rat poison
Warfarin was the first anticoagulant to be used against animal pests in the 1940s. With time however rodents developed resistance to it. Long-acting anticoagulants (the so-called superwarfarins) such as brodifacoum, …
Read MoreMethylated Spirits Is Poisonous Alcohol
There is a new trend among students, particularly secondary school students, in Nandi County-and probably elsewhere- to use cheap psychotropic substances including Kuber tobacco in addition to alcoholic beverages. As …
Read MoreAspiration Pneumonia
Aspiration pneumonia is a type of lung infection due to a relatively large amount of material from the stomach or mouth/nasal pharynx entering the lungs. There are four types of …
Read MoreWhy rabies immunoglobulins should always be used in combination with rabies vaccine
Rabies is a viral infection transmitted in the saliva of infected mammals (dog, bat etc) through contact with open cuts or wounds in skin or mucous membranes-genitalia, eyes, nose and …
Read MoreParacetamol poisoning; What you should know
Medication overdoses are the most common type of poisoning in developed nations though it is slowly becoming an important public health concern in developing countries such as Kenya. Paracetamol is …
Read MoreA cup, nay, cups of tea is good for your heart
Although on the short-term, tea intake can raise blood pressure- peaks 45 to 90 minutes- epidemiological and intervention studies show that long-term intake of tea and other polyphenol-containing foods (e.g. …
Read MoreTriatix poisoning: A cup of tea might be deadly
Triatix is an acaricide popular with farmers in the management of ticks in domestic animals. The active ingredient in Triatix is amitraz often suspended in a hydrocarbon xylene. Triatix is …
Read MoreSpina Bifida: A Serious Birth Defect
Spina bifida is a birth defect in which the vertebral column is open, often with spinal cord involvement. It occurs when the embryonic neural tube (ie, the embryonic structure that …
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