UK-based consultant physician on Family Health,
Dr. Chukwudi Ukpaka has raised awareness on the
causes of kidney disease and blindness.
Speaking on the rising cases of kidney failures,
Ukpaka warned against use of bleaching creams
saying:
“It contains mercury and other heavy metals that
enter the body through the skin, seep into the
bloodstream and travels to the kidney and does not
go out through urine.
After a period of time, they accumulate and
break down the kidney. A lot of people who
require dialysis were caused by their use of
bleaching creams.” He also noted that prolonged
use of gentamycin causes deafness and kidney
failure for people whose kidneys are not very
strong, saying the symptoms may take up to one
or two year to show.
Ukpaka averred that fibroid cases no longer require
surgery due to the risk of bleeding and infections.
Rather he said there is a new drug that shrinks it
till it becomes small and falls off, but he was quick
to add that it costs about N200, 000 and doctors
know the drug.
He warned against the use of Chloroquine, which
according to him has been banned and
criminalised in some countries, because it causes
blindness which may take up to five years after
use to manifest.
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