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Imagine being prescribed STI medication to treat diarrhea…

Medicine

My colleague’s boss wondered why he was taking medication to treat a vaginal infection, yet he had a running stomach.

Photo credit: Shutterstock

What you need to know:

  • The ‘pharmacist’ he had consulted had prescribed medication to treat his running stomach.
  • Turns out that this medication, is used to treat bacterial vaginosis and trichomoniasis, which is a sexually transmitted infection.

I am aware that lately I’ve been recounting conversations I’ve had with colleagues as a basis for my column. Please bear with me, I spend most of my week at work, therefore most of my interactions take place in an office setting.

This week, allow me to kick off by narrating an interaction I had with a workmate on Tuesday this week. The workmate in question is a photographer I’ve worked with for years. We worked together in the trenches when I joined the Nation as a reporter, and we, therefore, got to build a good rapport over the years. I rarely go out in the field now, so it is long since we worked on an assignment together, but whenever we meet in the corridors, we chat.