Pharmacy Daily | DISPENSARY CORNER 17 May 16

SEXUALLY active Aussie athletes heading to Rio de Janeiro in August need not fear contracting diseases with the entire Australian Olympic team to be given a supply of Zika-proof condoms. Australian pharmaceutical company Starpharma Holdings Ltd is collaborating with Ansell to distribute their special “Dual Protect” condoms. Lubricated with a special gel, they are said to provide almost total protection against Zika and a host of other viruses. Things must get pretty steamy over at the Olympic village with these extra-strength prophylactics being handed in addition to the 300,000 male and 100,000 female condoms already available there in free dispensers. Lets hope they save some of their energy for competing in the actual games too! EATING your own hair for 20 years comes with consequences, like a three kg hair ball clogging your stomach. At least, that’s what happened to a 31-year-old Indian woman who was admitted to hospital last week with severe stomach pain. Scans revealed the giant mass in her stomach and she admitted she’d been munching on her locks since she was about 9 years-old. The blockage was so bad she couldn’t even take a sip of water without vomiting. It turns out strange eating habits run in the family with her daughter also found to have a hair ball weighing nearly one kg in her digestive tract.

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