A Clinical Psychologist, Oluwakemi Akintoyese, has advised parents of Chrisland school pupils, who were alleged to have been caught engaging in sexual acts in a viral video, to ensure that they (pupils) undergo therapy and get other necessary psychological care.

In an interview with PUNCH Healthwise, the expert said the children involved have already formed opinions and ideas that only special care can change. Recall that a sex tape involving some minors from the upscale school, including a ten-year-old female student, went viral, sparking outrage and condemnation.

A Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Dr. Joseph Akinde, has urged pregnant women to always get enough rest and sleep, noting that failure to do this puts them more at risk of having premature labour, miscarriage, and hypertension.

According to Dr. Akinde, pregnant women who are advised by their doctors to observe some rest should do so, warning that stress and lack of rest usually have adverse effects on pregnancy.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has alerted the general public that Continental Mills is recalling a single lot of Great Value Buttermilk Pancake and Waffle Mix, due to potential foreign material contamination.

The alert, with No. 021/2022, and signed by NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Moji Adeyeye, was obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Sunday. Adeyeye stated that the affected product was distributed nationwide in the United States of America where consumers purchased the product from retail Walmart stores.

MSD for Mothers in Nigeria has urged stakeholders in maternal healthcare to pay better attention to postpartum hemorrhage, noting that addressing this childbirth complication is crucial to reducing the high rate of maternal mortality.

A representative of the Country Director, MSD for Mothers, Nigeria, Susan Bello, made the call during the launch of a heat-table uterotonic for the treatment of postpartum hemorrhage in Nigeria and other sub-Saharan African countries by the SmilesForMothers team.

A recent study has indicated that little salt intake may just be as harmful as high salt intake and could possibly lead to heart attack, stroke or even death. The study, which was carried out by a team of researchers was published in the Lancet, a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal.

According to the lead author, Andrew Mente of the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Canada, results of the study only showed that individuals with high blood pressure, who have high salt intake, should have it reduced.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has advised Nigerians to be on the lookout for some recalled brands of body sprays due to the presence of benzene, a carcinogenic substance in them.

The alert, with No. 0011/2022, and signed by NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Moji Adeyeye, was obtained by PUNCH Healthwise on the official website of NAFDAC. The names of the affected brands are Brut and Sure with expiry dates of on or before August 2023.

Health experts have cautioned Nigerians against engaging in urine therapy, noting that the consumption of urine can cause gastroenteritis and other serious infections. According to the experts, urine is dangerous for consumption because the drinker can end up swallowing bacteria.

The experts noted that the caution against the intake of urine is now imperative as some people hold on to the belief that urine is medicinal and can cure different illnesses noting that swallowing urine can cause all sorts of infections.

Scientists have cautioned against the use of banned hormonal growth promoters in rearing animals for human consumption, noting that eating such foods can cause drug resistance and cancers in humans.

According to the scientists, while the negative health effects of eating animals reared with hormonal growth promoters might not be immediate, they could become visible in the long run.

Medical experts have warned pregnant women against taking high doses of progesterone in an attempt to reverse or stop a medical abortion already in progress, noting that they are at risk of haemorrhage (heavy bleeding) and giving birth to babies with abnormalities.

An American non-governmental organisation, Heartbeat International has been propagating the use of Abortion Pill Reversal, claiming that a pregnant woman can reverse the course of an abortion with high intake of progesterone.

Health experts have faulted the claim that drinking palm wine by lactating mothers could help increase breast milk production, noting that there is no scientific study to support the assumption in humans.

The experts, a professor of Paediatric Nutrition, Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Calabar, Emmanuel Ekanem and a former head of Nutrition Services with the Ondo State Government, James Oloyede, said the claim that drinking palm wine would enhance the flow of breastmilk in a lactating mother is spurious.