I am a 50-year-old civil servant who has been complaining of swollen abdomen and legs for the past few weeks. After a series of blood and urine tests, I was placed on some drugs. However, two weeks later, my tummy is still very big while my feet are still swollen. Please tell me what to do?
Ebika (by SMS)
From your explanation, you could have some ailments affecting your heart, liver, kidney or some other major organs in the body. What you need at this point is an urgent visit to a specialist medical doctor in the nearest Teaching or Specialist Hospital to you. After a thorough medical examination, the doctor will order a series of tests from which a definitive diagnosis will be made. From this, the adequate treatment needed will be arrived at.