Medical expert warns against herbal concoction
A Medical Expert, Dr Olawale Musbau, has cautioned Nigerians against indiscriminate intake of local herbal concoctions.
He said some people who made local herbs intake habitual were in the verge of losing their liver.
Musbau, a specialist in occupational health, spoke in Ilorin yesterday at the 2015 Pre-Press Week health seminar for journalists organized by the Kwara State council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in collaboration with Mike Omotosho Foundation.
The seminar was themed “Importance of Good Health”.
The medical practitioner noted that many Nigerians were unaware of health problems inherent from unapproved herbal concoctions but religiously take it with the belief that their health problem like back-pain would be relieved.
He said contrary to the notion, residues in the local herbs would be systematically damaging the liver in the body.
“If you think it (herbs) has taken care of your back-pain, ignorantly, your liver was being weakened”.
The medical expert also enjoined alcohol takers to reduce the level at which they consume the substance as the end result might be dangerous to their health.
Likening journalism to occupational health, the Senior Registrar at the Department of Epidemiology and Community Health of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, called for alertness among members of the pen pushers so as to deliver on their obligation.
Another medical practitioner, Dr Tajudeen Dele, advised journalists to always eat healthy foods and take time to unwind with a view to restoring their mental capability.
The State Chairman of NUJ, Mallam Abiodun Abdulkareem, who was represented by Mr Mustapha Abubakar, said the health programme was convened to improve the health status of members.
In his goodwill message, the General Manager of Kwara State Printing and Publishing Corporation, publishers of The Herald titles, Alhaji Abdulrazaq Adebayo, who spoke on behalf of media executives, praised NUJ and Mike Omotosho Foundation for the gesture, stressing that media practitioners needed sound health to put public issues in proper perspective.
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