Fistulas... very sad

[preciousA]

Fistulas... ati whats that? i didn't know either until i saw this mama (Dr Hamlin) briefly on Oprah one time. basically complications from obstructive childbirth and so without medical care ...some gals have labour and push for even 5days ouch. Yaani halafu the incontinence and stink you get shunned by the community... what a life.
http://www.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200401/tows_past_20040116_b.jhtml
The cases of those girls make you count your blessings ... coz unlike Ethiopia and some other muslim countries even though women in Kenya get a raw deal, girls are not married so young increasing the probability of young pregnancies and such consequences. To think theyve treated 24000 gals?

[Memo]

a fistula is any type of necrotic hole from one thing to another on the body. Like a bladder to anal fistula, or vaginal to anal. Each more disgusting than the last.
It can b a big-ass thing that grows from,the ass.....my male work mate died from it.

[Chemosi]

Is that So? no wonder those big buggy pants Indians wear in kenya are called festulas. They have a big as*s hole in the middle going from back to front. My goodness.
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[kensoy]

Funny thing about the indian pants, Chemosi! But on a serious note, fistulas are pathological communications between two epithelial surfaces in the body. Of most importance in our setting(kenya) are obstetric fistulas resulting from trauma or operative manipulation during child bearing. studies show a high prevalence of fistulas among communities who practice FGM and marry off their girls at young ages.
What i have seen personally is a case of recto-vaginal fistula i.e. faeces being passed thru the vagina, when i asked the patient about her sexual life, she said "Mzee tu anakuja na kufanya kazi yake...siwezi mkataza".!!! I have seem quite a number of Pokots with these conditions. We should tell our sisters out there with such conditions that there is treatment. (although mzee will have to 'kula bench' for kitu 6 months to facilitate healing!)

[altoo]

on a personal note, i dated this amharic Ethiopian chick Tigish Amredu five years ago & she told me her own older sister went thru a fistula coz she was too young to give birth at 12 years of age...wtf?...such things shouldn't be going on in our 21st century world, anywhere in our planet for that matter. ..I just wish they would castrate all them guys who impregnate these youngs girls just for the heck of it.........DAMN IT
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[preciousA]

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[altoo]

[kensoy]

[altoo]

[preciousA]

[kensoy]

Hahaha!Altoo relax, just kidding with you!

Precious A...why dont you start an organisation to 'fight' these fistula problem, seems ur so touched. It doesnt have as much 'clout' as such issues like FGM but are definitely worth addressing. I know of a group of doctors who usually come to Kenya esp. MTRH in Eldoret to perform free surgery. This year i think kitu 20 or something women benefited from the exercise....i guess all of them will enjoy a Merry "Fistive" season!

[cheptabkoret]

the time i took to know it seriously was when, i read about a kid of seven years who was raped by the uncle... nxt thing was she was at nairobi women hospital for fistula.... kensoy can you explain to me the connection?????
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[kensoy]

Cheptabkoret,

The connection between sexual assault and fistula formation is quite straight forward and especially in this case, in a 7yr old. At 7 yrs definitely the girls sexual organs are not matured...immature epithelial surface, muscles and gland (so no lubrication)...Sexual assault is a violent act, the girls body is not able to withstand all that physical trauma (from the penetration).
Therefore she ends up with a perforated vagina or even uterus. These structures are in close approximation with the rectum and the bladder which are also torn in the process, therefore depending on the site of perforation, she can either have a recto-vaginal, utethro-vaginal or a vesico-vaginal fistula.
Such injuries require massive surgical reconstruction and are not without permanent sequelae eg. infertility and not to mention the permanent psychological effects.
Terrible thing this, thank God the cases of defilement have reduced...it had fikad a time they were the norm of the day.

[Chemosi]

[kensoy]

Haha!Very funny Chemosi....! Maybe we can also organise 4 u a pap smear....for ur mouth maybe!

[preciousA]

[kensoy]

I didnt know Cheptabkoret if vying 4 bunge...Altoo and I are too (ainamoi and belgut respectively in 2012!) it seems tutakuwa wengi eeh! So no more problems for biikabkutit...i can give u all my CDF for fistula issues!!

[cheptabkoret]

oh come on now people, as much as it might be a good idea to be a people spokesperson, our current political scenario is too violent and corrupt for me, so i will wait for kina kensoy and altoo to vie first and go clean the whole thing/ mess .... and not to mention my privacy. But something should be done to the rapists, especially paedophiles... stricter laws should be enhance... i support castration.
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[kensoy]

Cheptabkoret,
That is exactly why u shud become an MP, so that u can fight against the menace of rapists and paedophiles...kama ni funds, we can raise for u!!!

And PreciousA, i can email u some more stuff on the subject if ur interested.