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Ex-president Goodluck Jonathan became the president of Nigeria with black curly hair on his head. But he left office with partially gray or white hair. He was young when he became president. And at the age he left office, most people in his age grade still have black curly hair. Other presidents or heads of states of Nigeria since the 1990's entered with partial or complete gray or white hair. It was his own that looked that obvious. However, as I watched his hair turn gray or white, so too was his colleague in the United States of America (USA), Barack Obama. I realize that the previous US president entered the office either with black or partially black hair. After spending about 8 years, the one that entered with partially black hair had already turned white or gray completely and the one with black hair had turned partially gray or white. Ex-president Goodluck and Obama hair colour Read Also :  What causes white or gray hair under the armpit So many people around the world, esp...

In most community pharmacy shops, there are different types of supplements. Many claim to be antioxidant with different results. Some are marketed as anti ageing, anticancer, beauty supplement and so on and so forth. Covid-19 pandemic saw the surge in demand for vitamin C and zinc as a good antioxidant and immune booster for preventing the disease. Dietary antioxidant supplement Antioxidant Antioxidants are compounds that inhibit oxidation. They are molecules stable enough to donate an electron to a free radical and neutralise it. They act like hydrogen donors, peroxide decomposers, singlet oxygen quenchers, enzyme inhibitors, etc. Another mechanism is removal of reactive oxygen species/reactive nitrogen species (ROS/RNS) inhibitors by quenching chain initiating catalysts. Antioxidants inhibit oxidation by stopping free radical reactions. Read Also :  Boosting sales in community pharmacy using supplement Most antioxidants are produced in the body (glutathione, ubiquinone, etc). Oth...

Security is one of the major challenges facing community pharmacy business in Nigeria. This includes security for lives and properties. Looking for the best way to prevent thieves from stealing stocks and money is not easy. It is expensive but yet vital. In the long run, it is cheaper. Securing the lives of staffs and customers comes with its cost and price too. The target is usually the cashier or a rich customer that walks in. To secure a community pharmacy from thieves requires both the use of technology and human effort. Both must be adequately employed to prevent or reduce stealing. Read Also:  How to choose a good location for a community pharmacy shop The type of technology and human effort needed depends so much on the target. This is because there are different types of thieves. And they always have different desires. What They Steal In Community Pharmacy There are three major targets for thieves inside a community pharmacy shop. The first is the money. The target is daily...

Strain, specie and variant Before the Covid-19 pandemic, most people only talked about viruses in general. Very few people knew about terminologies used when talking about viruses. Only those who studied genetic engineering and related courses did. Read Also :  How coronavirus mutate into a new variant When the news of a new variant strain of the virus causing Covid-19 surfaced in the United Kingdom (UK) and South Africa, many news media used the term strain. Others use the term variant. This confusion can easily be cleared. What Is Strain, Specie and Variant To understand what these terms of a virus means, we will use coronavirus to explain it. Coronavirus are a large group of viruses that affect both birds and mammals. There are hundreds of coronavirus. Only seven specie affect people. Three are of economic importance. Classification of living things has seven levels which starts from kingdom and ends in species. The name coronavirus is a genus and split into four genera which ar...

Covid-19 New Strain Some few days ago, news about a new variant of the virus causing covid-19 surface in the United Kingdom (UK) and South Africa. Much is not known about this variant. The buzz about it generated a lot of questions in the minds of millions of people. I will clear the air with this post. Read Also:   How to prevent covid-19 Just like they say humans evolve, changing to adapt, so too, microorganisms like coronavirus do. Viruses change as a result of genetic selection through mutation or recombination. But the frequency depends on many factors including how the change occurred. How Virus Mutate Mutation occurs when there is an error in the viral genome or recombination when co infecting viruses exchange genetic information, creating a new variant. Mutation can be due to physical mutagens such as chemical, natural behaviour of the bases that make up nucleic acids of the virus or through friability of the enzymes that replicate the nucleic acid. Effect Of New Viral Vari...

Most women know that some drugs and food are dangerous during pregnancy. These can affect either the mother, baby or both. To be on the safer side, they seek advice from pharmacists or other healthcare persons including Google. They may also look up to their parents or other mother's. The amount of information that keeps coming sometimes overwhelms them into more confusion. They end up in more serious doubts. The amount of information available for pregnant women is high. But most are limited to theory. Very few are from reputable research work. This is because of the complications of carrying out research on pregnant women. The few available are mostly from a few groups of pregnant women or random personal experience during practice. Unsafe medications and substances in pregnancy Drugs To Avoid In Pregnancy I have come to realise that most drugs claimed to be contraindicated in pregnancy are not really dangerous at therapeutic doses. Others are safe over a short duration. But the ...

So this morning I saw my neighbor sunbathing. When I inquired why and the reply was to get vitamin D. The sun was blazing hot. So I was with this hot sun, will it not be dangerous for her skin. I also was curious for how long should it be right. What Is Vitamin D Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin that can be gotten from the food we eat. It is converted by the liver and kidney to active form in the body. Some diseases that affect the liver and or kidney such as celiac affect absorption of vitamin D. Read Also:   The importance of supplement (multivitamin) However, very few foods contain vitamin D in large amounts. So the best way to get vitamin D is through sunbathing. How Sun Give Us Vitamin D Vitamin D and sun The sun ultraviolet (UV) rays strike cholesterol on the skin. Activated cholesterol triggers the synthesis of vitamins D. Function Of Vitamin D The main function of vitamin D is to assist the body use calcium from the diet. Traditionally, vitamin D deficiency has been assoc...

What will you do if a client walks into your community pharmacy demanding for a product you don't have at the moment? Promise to stock it in your next purchase? Say you don't sell that product because of some reasons? Source for it yourself around for the client? Or let the client walk away? This is a crucial decision every community pharmacy contend with almost all the time. The wrong approach can harm the business in the long run. Client and pharmacist Community pharmacy businesses survive from patronage from clients. Getting new clients is the desire of every community pharmacist and retaining them is the goal. As long as the community pharmacy shop is in a good location, having new clients is easy. But retaining them requires so many things. Read Also :  How to prevent out of stock in community pharmacy Both pharmacists and support staff always get training on how to make clients happy. Management always makes sure products are available. But there are times a client may de...

Many people urinate about seven times a day. That is no matter the amount of water they drink or take in any form. However, a group of persons experience frequent urination. More frequent than that. It calls for concern. Health experts believe that anything more than seven times under 24 hours is bad. Frequent urination is passing out urine frequently within a short time. Passing more than 3 liter of water is considered urinary frequency. It is different from urinary incontinence which is leaking urine. And it gets worse with increasing age. But why is this condition and what can be done? Urinary Frequency Urinary Frequency When we eat food, some of the food is converted to energy in the body available to do work. This means that solid waste will be small. But when we drink or eat food with water, it is absorbed and released unchanged by the body. It can be in the form of sweat or urine. Read Also:   How too much drinking water can hurt your health The more water you drink, the mor...