Experts List Foods To Check Prostate Cancer, Menopause Pains
Medical experts have recommended lifestyle modification, improved diet intake as panacea to prostate cancer among men and pains of menopause among women.
The experts spoke during a health talks organised as part of activities marking at the 2023 press week of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Kwara State.
Two medical consultants from the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Dr Lola Owolabi and Dr Ismail Husseni, and a senior consultant surgeon from the General Hospital, Ilorin, Dr Aremu Isiaq, enlightened the people on how to manage menopause and prostate enlargement.
Owolabi listed pains in women at the age of menopause to include weak bones, vaginal dryness that may cause painful sexual intercourse, mood changes, loss of air and depletion of hormones.
She also added that slow digestion, loss of voice, profuse sweating, pubic hair fall off and loss of elasticity of urinary bladder as well as uterus collapse.
She, however, proffered healthy diets with less carbohydrates, light clothings, frequent cold rather than hot baths, water-based lubricants and hormone replacement therapy that must not be used beyond five years as remedies.
The gynaecologist consultant dispel the belief that irregular sex induces early menopause which she described as “an ageing process among women.”
On prostate enlargement, Dr Ismail Husseni, a Urology consultant from the UITH, described prostate among men as a normal phenomenon, “as long as you are not castrated, you must have it,” he noted.
He, however, warned on the danger of naivety in its management and control.
He linked its spread and dangerous poise to irregular and unchecked diets.
“There is no major treatment to prostate cancer, it varies,” adding that its severity lies with the risk factors.
Husseni, who noted that lifestyle modification could forever check or reduce the menace, said: “lifestyle modification is the key to prostate cancer-free life among men.
“The risk factors aside alcohol and smoking is diet. Do away with dairy foods like animal fats and red meats and go for white meats like rabbits, chicken, turkey and fish “.
He also advised men to engage in regular exercises and screening especially for men above 40 years.
“Avoid misinformation, prostrate cancer is not contagious,” he declared.
The consultant surgeon from the General Hospital, Ilorin, Dr Isiaq, moderated the enlightenment discussion.
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