Traditional medicine, according to the World Health Organisation, is “the knowledge, skills and practices based on the theories, beliefs and experiences indigenous to different cultures, used in the maintenance of health and in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness”. Continue Reading
To mark the World Breastfeeding Week 2023, we look at the importance of breastfeeding as an important part of the neonatal and infant periods, providing total nutritional support and promoting the emotional dependency of the baby on the breastfeeding parent. Continue Reading
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are a drug class FDA-approved for use as antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, and analgesic agents. These effects make NSAIDs useful for treating muscle pain, dysmenorrhea, arthritic conditions, pyrexia, gout, migraines, and used as opioid-sparing agents in certain acute trauma cases.Continue Reading
by Tolulope Obasuyi What is tea? Most Nigerians have the misconception of referring to chocolate drinks as tea. It might amuse most people to know that tea is actually a drink made from herbs with the most common from the leaves of a plant called Camellia sinensis also known asContinue Reading
by Tolulope Obasuyi As Nigerian children, the first vitamin we all got to know is vitamin C and our favorite is always the yellow one because, yes, it’s the sweet one. However, vitamins are a class of food on their own needed by the body in small quantities. Due toContinue Reading
Food spoilage causes not only economic loss, but also loss of edible foods. In countries where foods are produced and procured from many countries much more than the need, spoilage up to a certain level is not considered serious. However, in many countries where food production is not efficient, food spoilage can adversely affect the availability of food.Continue Reading
Food preservation, since ancient times, played a central role in the survival of mankind enhancing the safety and stability of different foodstuffs. Traditional techniques used to prevent food deterioration in the past such as salting, drying, fermentation, and heating prevail in the modern food industry. The knowledge about the main causes of deterioration has increased substantially since then and losses due to spoilage and food contamination were reduced.Continue Reading
The association between the consumption of food and human diseases was recognized very early and it was Hippocrates (460 B.C.) who reported that there is a strong connection between food consumed and human illness. Foodborne pathogens (e.g. viruses, bacteria, parasites) are biological agents that can cause a foodborne illness event.Continue Reading
By Claudia M. Lopez; Siva Naga S. Yarrarapu; Magda D. Mendez. Food allergy is defined as an immune reaction to proteins in the food and can be immunoglobulin (Ig)E-mediated or non-IgE-mediated.Continue Reading