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“In older women, a UTI can be completely asymptomatic. I’m a bladder most cancers survivor and really tuned in to my bladder well being. I used to be feeling very run down however had completely no UTI signs. I went to the emergency division for one thing unrelated, the place I handed out and needed to be resuscitated a number of instances. I had develop into septic from an unknown bladder an infection, and my husband needed to watch me die and be revived within the emergency room not less than 3 times. A brilliant star emergency group saved my life, and I used to be put within the ICU with out a lot hope of restoration. I spent six days hospitalized, and day-after-day I thank God and people medical professionals for letting me return to my household. PLEASE study from my scary expertise!”
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“Your optometrist asks what medicines you’re taking as a result of your eyes are part of your body and can be affected by systemic diseases. You may lose imaginative and prescient from diabetes, hypertension, autoimmune issues, and so on. It amazes me when folks depart off medicines they’re taking, and I say, ‘So, you aren’t taking any medicines in any respect?’ After which the individual has a whole listing, explaining that they did not point out them as a result of ‘they do not have an effect on my eyes.’ That is mistaken.”
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“By no means EVER boil breast milk. By doing this, you destroy all the nutrients, and it principally turns into as nutritious as water.”
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“As a Navy corpsman and now Doctor Assistant, I’ve all the time informed my male sufferers that smoking can cause erectile dysfunction. That will get their consideration greater than strokes or coronary heart assaults.”
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“I am an ENT. Please convey earplugs to loud concert events and reveals. Please do not take heed to music in your earbuds/headphones too loudly. Your hearing doesn’t regenerate, and you place your self at the next threat of creating tinnitus (ringing in your ears) and hyperacusis (sensitivity to sound).”
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“Moles don’t should look odd, have irregular borders, be completely different colours, develop quick, crack and bleed, and so on., to be pores and skin most cancers. Moles that look absolutely normal and have been on your body for years can be cancerous. Flaky patches of pores and skin that mimic eczema or psoriasis can truly be pores and skin most cancers. A darkish freckle can truly be pores and skin most cancers. A darkish purplish stretch mark will be pores and skin most cancers. That is why it’s so vital to not solely get yearly pores and skin checks, but additionally test your self each time you’re bare. Make notes of the areas in your physique and an in depth description of what every space appears like so you may monitor it.”
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“Antibiotics only work against bacteria; they aren’t some sort of wonderpotion that cures something, and they need to not all the time be given. Please follow the prescription the physician offers you. Even in case you already really feel higher, do not simply cease except the physician says you may cease. Lots of medicine must be taken in accordance with the prescription to ensure that it to be efficient since you construct up the dosage to an efficient degree. Stopping or not sticking to it actually decreases effectiveness.”
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“Inform us what medicine and alcohol you’re on. We aren’t gonna inform the cops, and we aren’t gonna lecture you, however it may change the anesthesia we provide you with. A few of the stuff we give might kill you. So, in case you drink a 30-pack a day, inform us.”
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“Just because you’re skinny doesn’t mean you’re healthy. Generally I ask teenagers whom I deal with what wholesome meals they eat, and infrequently do I get a proper reply. I really feel just like the web has so many fad diets, and a few households not often prepare dinner, so there are such a lot of individuals who do not know fundamental vitamin details.”
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“Alcohol is really, really bad for you. By binge consuming, you run the chance of creating abdomen bleeds, intestinal bleeds, pancreatitis, liver illness, and/or liver failure, alcoholism, coronary heart failure, seizures, stroke, osteoporosis, lung failure, the listing goes on… Having 4 drinks unfold out over a couple of hours will be JUST as enjoyable as having 10 drinks in the identical time span, AND you are not placing your self in danger for large organ failure and making your self appear like an fool.”
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And, lastly: “Fevers are not always dangerous. Actually, they’re your physique’s pure response to an sickness. All the time name your physician first, however you may not have to rush to the emergency division on the first sight of 1.”
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