Thursday, May 14, 2026
Dear Mama Tenza

Dear Mama Tenza

A health advice column for all ages. Mama Tenza recommends natural remedies for common, everyday health scares.

Mama Tenza!!!!!!!! with all this talk about special needs, I am so afraid of giving birth. I'm two months pregnant and all I can think about is "what if my baby is born with autism". My husband has a...

Mama Tenza, this may cost me my marriage and I’m not even married yet. I’m involved with this girl, and she’s amazing! Smart, very optimistic, focused and oh is she SEXY. She’s very healthy too and by that I...

Mama Tenza every month I’m wailing and weeping. I keep asking my body why can’t she just send me an email or WhatsApp to tell me my reproductive system is fine? I can’t bear the pain! Every month I...

Dear Mama Tenza, I got my hair cut by another barber recently (just this once) because my barber was not available. I loved the cut but now I'm feeling small bumps at the back of my head. What can I...

This is so embarrassing but I think I have a yeast infection. Ok, so I started noticing some white mucky stuff on my panty and it smelt yakky, geeez! My vagina would itch me, Oh gawd! Sometimes my side...

Mama Tenza mi need yuh help urgent! I have a pageant coming up so I’ve been working out. I’m also a college student and I have a full-time job, so I’m a bit stressed. I think its showing in...

Dear Mama Tenza,  Mi nuh know ifa di climate change, but when di place hot mi get some boil pon mi privit an mi battam. When mi used to shave, dem wuda come up...

Dear Mama Tenza, Suh, mi a good gal! My makeup always on fleek, mi hair eva duh, nails up and mi only use Bath and Body Works and Victoria Secret pon mi body. (tone changes) But from the other day, right about...

Dear Mama Tenza! Mi need yuh help fi dah one yah! From di oda day mi feel like mi back a guh pop out. Mi cyan sleep in peace, sometimes not even breathe properly. If I lie down on my...

My sinuses are driving me crazy! I'm dark like chocolate but, di way mi a sneeze, mi a guh redder dan Santa jacket at Christmas! I'm not sure if something is going around in the air but I can't seem to get over these allergies.....