Being pregnant is an amazing experience, and giving birth to a child is perhaps the single most impactful thing many women go through. After you have given birth, however, you start to realise the physical toll that being pregnant has taken on your body. Your skin is stretched and loose in ways you probably were not expecting, and it can be very damaging for your self-confidence and body positivity. Luckily, there is a simple solution to this problem: a tummy tuck!…
Urethral diverticulum is a condition characterised by the formation of a pouch on the internal wall of the urethra. When you urinate, the pouch can fill with urine, and the longer the urine sits in the pouch, the more opportunity there is for bacteria to breed and spread due to stagnation. The cause of urethral diverticulum isn’t always clear, but it can occur due to a previous infection causing the wall of the urethra to weaken, or it can result from trauma during childbirth.…
If you have been diagnosed with claudication (a condition that is usually induced by atherosclerosis, which results in a person experiencing pain when they exercise due to the poor circulation of blood in their lower limbs) and need to get a vascular ultrasound so that your doctor can assess the affected blood vessels, here are two mistakes that you should try hard not to make.
Postponing your vascular ultrasound appointment because you fear it will hurt or be invasive…
