Success Damian:
Professor Olugbenga made the call while delivering the 81st Inaugural Lecture of the Lagos State University at the Buba Marwa Auditorium of the Campus in Ojo on Monday, October 25, 2021.
He said “The way our human body is made, it has its own self mechanism, self correcting and so if we can have facility to monitor the immunological parameters it will aid a great deal what the medical people are doing in the various gynecological hospitals so that they will be able to assist the women the more because they can know that it is an immune problem that is affecting the hormone imbalance because you cannot just be treating the symptoms without looking at the root causes,” he said.
The Inaugural Lecture was titled: ‘A Delicate Romance of Macromolecules of Immune Moiety, Biochemical Factors and Hormonal Indices That Guarantee Posterity’
Speaking on what necessitated his research into the topic of the lecture, he said “The academic world that we were introduced to is both administrative, academic and community service, so as part of our community service; we have seen the tremendous pressure women are put under. Some people don’t go into marriage until they see the pregnancy, they go from one man to another and from one woman to another woman, not actually interrogating what is the source of their problem and promiscuity has been the order of the day.
“So to have a scientific outline model by which you can check your status and know if you are reproductively sound, then you don’t have to subject yourself to bed to bed in search of pregnancy. So we saw that as a need and when we visited the hospitals we saw it as a challenge, because in the various gynecological hospitals women are there, sometimes the men are sleeping at home not really knowing that they have a contributing factor to what is the problem in the homes. But the attention is usually on the women because they are the ones who present themselves eventually for check-ups.”
His solution to the problem of infertility “So we see that continuing with affordable search becomes something that can be more encouraging to the average Nigerian women, because many people don’t even think that some medicals are affordable to them, so they don’t even go near the hospital, so establishing this medicinal remedies and which can be properly interrogated and recommended, it becomes a reachable area for women to treat themselves of any form of discrepancy that is happening with their hormonal imbalance or happening with their immunology. You know the immunology is given by God to defend us from unwanted substances influences, but they turn against us when those substances that are negative to the body are not treated, that is why we call it auto-antibody, auto-immunity, so they turn against us because they keep defending themselves even in negative manner. I think this has been the story so far."
On his advice to medical practitioners in tackling the problem of infertility, he said “My advice is that medical practitioners should include checking on auto-antibody level along side, not just the hormonal profile, because what they do is do the hormonal profile, do the physical examination and at the end of the day a great number of them are tagged unexplained infertility and doctors are not God, they will just leave it at that, and said it is unexplained.
“But the way our human body is made, it has its own self mechanism, self correcting and so if we can have facility to monitor the immunological parameters it will aid a great deal what the medical people are doing in the various gynecological hospitals, so that they will be able to assist the women the more because they can know that, okay, it is an immune problem that is affecting the hormone imbalance because you cannot just be treating the symptoms without looking at the root causes.”
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