I watched “Miss Potter” with my husband the other night and I cried. “Why on earth are you crying?” he asked me perplexed as I burst into tears when her first book “The Tale of Peter Rabbit ” got published. “I am just so happy for her!” If you haven’t seen the show, you should. …
I nearly forgot it was Valentine’s Day yesterday. With all the excitement of Carnival and then the come down that is Ash Wednesday I ran down to the corner store, half panicked to buy my husband some chocolates. It got me thinking about how chocolate became the “Food of love” and about other supposed aphrodisiacs, …
This blog’s a bit of a departure from the medical. But, I suppose it could be relevant to Womens’ Mental Health everywhere.I finally bought a fully electric car. I have been wanting one for years. That’s why my lovely VW Golf is now a well preserved 16 years old. I know it’s looking good right? …
“Which cough syrup should I take doctor?” I find people get very obsessed with which cough syrup is the best or which will cure them….but the truth is that cough syrups cannot “cure” the cause of your cough. They can at best, maybe make you feel better or at worst have side effects. Really, they …
It is World Glaucoma Week Why do we care? Because Glaucoma is a preventable cause of blindness. Glaucoma is a progressive eye disease which affects the nerve at the back of the eye- the optic nerve. The damage is usually caused by increased pressure in the eye. Think of a candle which is burning: You …
You asked and I listened: I just returned from the UK where I completed an Advanced Botox and Filler Course. It was fascinating. So thank you for the suggestion. So, what did I learn? Well, I always knew that “Botox” had some medical uses. But the story of how a deadly poison became the darling …
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It’s August and we’ve begun to hear the ads on the radio and Tv for “de-worming medicine” Here’s Dr Solomon on the evidence about why we should or should not be giving worm medicine to our children if they are well and do not have symptoms.”How many of us Trinidadians are accustomed to our grandmother, …
It’s the summer holidays and I hope all your kids are outside (without masks yay!) getting muddy, falling from trees and getting scraped knees….That’s so much better than sitting rivetted to a screen getting a Thumb sprain from a remote control or joystick! But really, when is one of those cuts/scrapes serious? It’s been so …
So we’re all crawling out from under our rocks and thinking about all the things we neglected during the Pandemic. Our health included. That means Annual and Executive Medicals. “The bigger the better Doc. Give me every test you got. Take me up to my insurance limit. “ Whoa, hold up there! Everything in moderation, …
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