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Oedema is the medical term used for swelling caused by collection of fluid in the body. It can occur nearly anywhere in the body. Some of the most common sites are: • the legs or hands (also called peripheral oedema) • the abdomen (called ascites) •...

Dear Dr Nekia,After reading last week’s column I am confused. I mean, isn’t gay just gay? I do not understand how things that someone does during sex can seem gay without being gay. If a man has anal sex he is just gay.Sincerely, Gay is GayDear Gay i...

It’s week ten of Beat the Couch and we’re rapidly approaching race day on Sunday. It’s an exciting few days, with shirts arriving, medals landing and the couch-on-wheels making its way out of storage. We’ve dusted off the cobwebs and loosened up the ...

Elbows off the table. Mouth closed when you’re chewing, please. Your fork is not a shovel. What’s the magic word? Elbows OFF the table!’ The soundtrack to many mealtimes with my eight-year-old: an endless, nagging stream of dos and don’ts. I am simpl...

Today. We can often forget just how important today is. We may talk about yesterday and plan for tomorrow but what about today? Each of us is given just so many days to experience our lives. I look around at work or at play and wonder who are the pe...

Dear Dr Nekia, I have a woman that never initiates sex. I ask her to, and I tell her that it means a lot to a man to feel wanted, but although she says that she will, never does. She really doesn’t see the problem because she says that she doesn’t re...

There is a slight chance that my children will be born into a world where Tottenham Hotspur could be Barclays Premier League champions. For those of you who know either myself or the Premier League well enough, that is a ridiculous and absurd though...

Dear Heather, A friend of mine who priced their home lower than market value ended up having a bidding war on it! Should sellers price their homes for less than they expect to get, in the hopes of getting multiple offers above asking price? Seller ...

Wind. How do you take advantage of the wind at your back. We all know that a tailwind can drive an airplane forward faster than if it is fighting a headwind. That is what sometimes gets us to our destination faster. What is the tailwind that you use ...

As it is known, a heart murmur is a sound produced when blood flows across one of the heart valves, and is loud enough to be heard with a stethoscope. While a heart murmur could be inconsequential or “innocent”, especially in young people, it may re...

I’m sitting at the dining room table trying to write this while Belle plays opposite me. She made edible slime at summer camp and I’m trying to talk her out of ingesting a large dose of Kool-Aid and Red 40. She also has three pots of glitter, some w...

Dear Dr Nekia, Why do women seem to age better than men, and outlive men? Also, why do married men live longer than single men? I mean, especially since I hear a lot of my married friends say, “Don’t get married mate, the stress kills you”. Sincerely...