- Can a fart kill a person?
Maybe the people around you
if it smells really bad.
Cutting things off midstream,
what in the world is Couvade syndrome,
and the age-old question, can farts kill you?
What?
Today we're back at it answering some
of the most jaw-dropping medical questions from Discord.
Brace yourselves, this may get a little out there.
All right, let's dive right in.
"Hello, Dr. Wagner.
I am worried that I am often aggressive.
Tell me, is it worth worrying
that I'm developing psychopathy?
I'm almost 18."
When somebody's still a teenager,
you're growing, you're maturing,
you're developing your emotions,
your hormones are affecting your emotions,
so it could be quite normal to have some moments.
Now, if it is there more frequently than any other emotion,
then you would definitely want to talk to somebody about it.
Psychopathy is a neuropsychiatric disorder
that is characterized by a deficiency
in your emotional responses.
So this disorder is marked
by lack of empathy, aggressive behavior.
If you are concerned that this is happening to you,
definitely address it
with a healthcare provider as well as maybe a psychiatrist.
When you get a vasectomy,
can you still get an erection naturally?
And after you masturbate,
do you just ejaculate semen or nothing at all?
The vasectomy is when a urologist, a surgeon for that area,
cuts the tube that basically supplies the sperm
to your semen.
Simple procedure typically, done as an outpatient,
there is some discomfort,
it feels like somebody gets kicked in the...
(Austin groans)
If you still ejaculate semen, it just is void of sperm.
Hopefully that's the point of this.
It shouldn't change your sexual drive.
It shouldn't change how you feel
with an erection or arousal.
Just to be aware,
typically, you still wanna use some sort
of birth control for the next eight to 12 weeks after,
just because sometimes the sperm sneak their way out.
If we hold and stop semen in middle, where will it go?
It will go back to prostate or will it go into balls?
I would not advise if somebody's trying
to ejaculate and stopping in the middle
and holding it specifically,
and preventing it from actually coming out.
If you do actually have the contractions basically
to where your body is ejaculating,
it will make its way out.
If you don't allow it out,
meaning it'll just kind of drip out or you'll urinate it out
on the next time you go to the bathroom.
So there's something called a nocturnal emission
to where the body's actually helping get rid
of the older sperm that are in the body
and allow it to get out.
Is this a condition or something?
I can burp controllably and I really have bad indigestion.
Is this because of what I eat or something else?
Could be something you're eating
or it could be something that you might be intolerant to.
GERD basically is when your stomach acids kind of flow up
from your stomach into your esophagus,
allowing back and forth.
People complain of like an acidy feeling
in their throat or feel like you can't breathe.
Could be related to different intolerances
such as gluten intolerance, lactose intolerance.
Sometimes people can have what's called a hiatal hernia
where the top of your stomach is actually
into the chest cavity through the diaphragm,
and so it doesn't allow the top sphincter
of your stomach to close all the time,
so there's a little bit of an opening.
What does it mean if hair in the armpits fall off?
Could be related to skin conditions
such as keratosis pilaris,
or seborrheic dermatitis,
also could be related to psoriasis.
Different skin disorders could affect the way
that the body holds onto the hairs
and the hair follicles,
could be related to low testosterone.
Nutrition-wise, macro and micronutrients
could also play a part.
If you do notice these things, just get your levels checked.
"Hey, doctor, what would happen if you eat your own puke?
- I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
- I highly, highly do not recommend this at all.
So your vomitous that comes out, got acid in it,
it burns your throat as it comes out.
Your esophagus, tongue,
and your mouth are not made to experience this much acid.
It can break down the cells,
can cause scarring.
When people vomit and then try to eat the vomit,
you always worry about aspiration,
meaning you inhale some of the vomitous into your lungs,
which increases the risk of pneumonia.
Please don't do that.
What situation would it be possible to have a bullet
in your eye and still be breathing?
- I've been shot!
- I've seen a lot of bullet injuries where people survive
and have good, normal lives.
It just all depends on where the bullet hits,
how it hits.
It is very plausible to injure your eyeball
with a bullet but without affecting your breathing apparatus
and potentially dying.
But if it just hits your eye,
maybe the eye gets ruptured and you can't fix it.
It could be lodged next to your eye in the orbital cavity,
be painful, but you may actually still be able to see.
But typically, if a bullet goes into somebody's eye,
you're going to have visual issues,
you may lose that eye.
But in this hypothetical situation,
you can still live if your eyeball gets injured by a bullet.
"My brother told me when his girlfriend was pregnant,
he'd get morning sickness as well.
Is this really possible?
And if so, then how so?"
It's a super rare syndrome called Couvade syndrome,
and basically where the partner
of a pregnant individual has these mimicking type symptoms
of pregnancy.
Not uncommon for individuals to have similar symptoms.
I see so many people coming
to the Emergency Department, nausea, vomiting, constipation,
not wanting to eat, bloating, weight gain, and a lot
of times, it's just related to the gastrointestinal tract.
During pregnancy, the male hormones, or your counterpart,
in general will actually fluctuate and change more
than if they weren't around somebody who was pregnant.
Why sometimes when you sneeze hard,
you fart, stingy, painful, small farts?
(gas passing)
Okay, it's actually related to your intraabdominal pressure.
So when you actually sneeze, super hard contraction,
you force it out or you stipple it,
either way, I'd say let it out,
as long as there's space to do that,
and it's these little squeezed out type farts
because you're still having some contraction
to your sphincter, your butt hole.
So it kind of squeaks out when it's super hard.
Different motions
and different activities can cause people to pass wind.
"Question, what happens when someone swallows a battery?"
- My body's rejecting it!
- You should get bit checked
out because the batteries are caustic.
They can cause injury to the lining of anywhere
between your mouth to your anus, and it can cause erosions.
It can cause perforations, and it's quite dangerous.
The most dangerous batteries
out there are actually those button batteries,
which are the very small ones,
because they can actually perforate the stomach
and intestines a lot more frequently and easily.
If somebody actually does swallow a button battery,
it's an emergency
and we typically will have a gastroenterologist
do an upper endoscopy to actually get the battery out.
So please try your best not to swallow a battery.
"This sounds like a stupid question,
but why do my bones click and snap a bit
as I wake up?"
It's most likely the nitrogen gas buildup within our joints,
as our joints are getting ready to be active
and lubricated, and move.
If you've had an old injury, this could also occur.
There's a whole specialty chiropractic care
where people get cracked, so to speak.
That's just the audible noise that you're actually hearing.
If there's pain involved in this, definitely discuss this
with your healthcare provider, your chiropractor,
definitely get checked out please.
Can a fart kill a person?
Maybe the people around you if it smells really bad.
Could a fart kill an individual who is farting?
Unlikely.
If the fart isn't actually released,
a fart could actually hurt somebody
where you're developing gas into the abdomen,
stretch out so much
that it causes a bowel obstruction or a bowel rupture.
Then that could lead to somebody getting super sick,
and they could potentially die.
Let the farts out.
"Doc, this is the most embarrassing question of me.
How do I stop peeing in my bed?"
- Did you wet the bed?
- I have to go.
- There are a lot of factors relating
to bedwetting, urinating in the middle of the night,
and it could be as simple
as drinking too much water before you're going
to bed or medications that you might be on.
But other things to consider are bladder stones,
kidney stones that can cause somebody to have irritation
of the bladder.
The musculature of the bladder wall may be deficient.
Constipation, incontinence where the muscles
aren't working as well, and urine is just leaking out.
More common in the elderly population and more common
in women due to the fact that a woman has delivered a baby,
it could stretch out the pelvic floor muscles.
So there are multiple different things
that could cause this.
Make sure you're talking
to either a urologist or a specialist about this.
Good questions.
If you guys have any concerns about your own healthcare,
make sure that you go to see your physician,
see your healthcare provider.
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