Ask Dr. Ikenze: Dry Eyes After Pregnancy

May 6th, 2010 by Ifeoma Ikenze
Posted in Health, Homeopathy, Women

Q. I was wondering if other mothers have experienced dry eyes after pregnancy and breast feeding. If so what have you done to treat it?

I have never had dry eyes in the past not during the pregnancy. Three months after giving birth i began experiencing severe dry eyes, I only nursed three months after giving birth then I stopped. Out of nowhere I developed keratitis on my both eyes. My ophthalmologist then told me it’s cured. The Keratitis did cured in one month, but more than one year from then, my eyes still feel dry and hurt very often. I stopped wearing contacts and my vision did not changed, but the eyes always feel painful, itchy and tired. And my life has been changed upside down because this obsession feeling of uncomfortableness on my eyes.

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Upcoming: Women’s Retreat 2010

March 30th, 2010 by Ifeoma Ikenze
Posted in Women

Dear Retreat Attendees,

I am happily looking forward to our “Women~Fairies~Angels~Goddesses” retreat on April 10, at Dominican University. It is intended to be a special time for you to clear a space for yourself, so you can objectively look at your life, your world, and your whole person, spirit, mind and body. This is your time to discover and explore a whole new dimension in yourself. What you find out about yourself and your world is personal and it is up to you, how much or how little you will wish to share with the other attending women. Bearing that in mind, I would like you to please take some quiet time to contemplate some questions in preparation for the retreat.

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Save Those Bones!

January 31st, 2010 by Ifeoma Ikenze
Posted in Nutrition, Women

Whether you are in your reproductive phase, breastfeeding, or menopausal you need calcium for your bones. While there are all kinds of Calcium supplements on the market that claim to be easily absorbable, the reality is that most commercial calcium supplements do not readily get assimilated or easily turned into bone. For this reason the form of calcium best suited for assimilation and bone synthesis is, of course, bone.

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Women Helping Women

September 7th, 2009 by Ifeoma Ikenze
Posted in Women

Every year as September rolls around I find myself thinking of women all over the world. September is the month for women and I think of the plight of women in different countries – mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, grandmothers, mothers-in-law. Women in Africa living with war, famine, and starvation.  Women in the Middle East and Eastern Europe living through a war of hate that is permeating and destroying everything around them. Women living in slavery and oppression in Afghanistan, India, and Iraq. Women in South America living in poverty and squalor. And here in the United States, women experience physical and psychological abuse and discrimination every day even in the midst of affluence and plenty.

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Menarche: Gateway to Mature Womanhood

July 16th, 2009 by Ifeoma Ikenze
Posted in From my Book, Women

It is my hope that every menopausal woman who reads my book on menopause will give it to a younger premenopausal woman. Menarche (the first occurrence of menstruation) brings each young woman into the sacred circle of womanhood, within which she may realize her potential as priestess of purity, guardian of truth, and preserver of life. To be priestess of purity is to seek purity not only in spirit and thought, but in all things ranging from our physical bodies, material surroundings, clothing, and entertainment, to what we ingest by way of food and drink.

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