Reproductive Health Drugs in Nigeria

This category holds some of the most quietly consequential medicines in Nigeria. Tranexamic acid reduces heavy menstrual bleeding and — given quickly after childbirth — saves mothers from postpartum haemorrhage, still a leading cause of maternal death here. Misoprostol protects stomachs from painkiller damage and holds a critical place in obstetric care, which is also why its sale is sensitive and its counterfeits dangerous.

Heavy periods that soak through protection hourly, or bleeding that returns after childbirth, are medical problems with real treatments — not endurance tests. And tranexamic acid's fashionable second life as a skin-lightening agent, taken daily for months off social-media advice, misuses a blood-clotting drug in exactly the population (women on hormonal contraception) where clot risk stacks. For bleeding, under guidance: excellent. As a beauty routine: no.