>> WELCOME BACK MAY IS NATIONAL ASTHMA AND ALLERGY AWARENESS MONTH AND DURING THIS
TIME OF HEIGHTENED AWARENESS OF
OUR HEALTH, EVEN THOSE
ACCUSTOMED TO
SEASONAL ALLERGIES MIGHT THINK
TWICE WHEN COMPARING THEIR
SYMPTOMS TO
COVID-19 ONE IN 13 AMERICANS
LIVE WITH ASTHMA WHILE MORE
THAN 1550 EXCUSE ME MILLION
AMERICANS SUFFER FROM
ALLERGIES. JOINING US NOW WITH
MORE ON HOW YOU CAN FIND RELIEF
IS DOCTOR HIM AND
ON E A PULMONOLOGIST FROM
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. DOCTOR
HAMDANI THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
JOINING US THIS MORNING TO TALK
ABOUT THIS GOT TO BE HERE.
WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS OF
ALLERGIES AND ASTHMA.
>> SO THE MOST COMMON SYMPTOMS
ARE SNEEZING A RUNNY NOSE,
WATERY EYES, SOME PEOPLE GET
POST NASAL DRIP.
AND AS MY YOU KNOW AS YOU KNOW
ALLERGY ASTHMA GO HAND IN HAND
SOMETIMES AND AS YOU CAN HAVE
COUGH. IN ADDITION TO ADD ABOUT
SYMPTOMS.
>> AND HOW.
>> DO THEY DIFFER FROM THAT OF
COVID-19.
>> SO THE STUDIES THAT CAME OUT
FROM
9 OUT OF 10 PEOPLE HAVE FEVER
WHICH YOU WILL NOT SEE WITH
ASTHMA OR ALLERGIES.
PLUS COVID-19
IS MORE ACUTE ILLNESS WHERE
YOUR SYMPTOMS CAN LAST ANYWHERE
FROM 2 TO 14 DAYS.
BEACH. WE DON’T AND ASTHMA AND
ALLERGIES THEY’RE MORE OF SORT
OF
CHRONIC ILLNESSES I’M THE ONLY
SYMPTOMS THAT OVERLAPS BETWEEN
HAS MINED COAL THAT WOULD BE
COUGH. BUT LIKE I SAID I’M IN
IN COVID-19 IS USUALLY YOUR
SYMPTOMS ARE FROM ANYWHERE FROM
2 TO
14 DAYS. BUT YOU WILL NOT SEE A
RUNNY
AND THE OTHER SYMPTOMS OF COVID
IS
INTENSE FATIGUE. YOU MAY HAVE
LITTLE BIT OF FATIGUE IF YOU’RE
TAKING INTO FOR ALLERGIES.
BUT YOU WILL NOT HAVE INTENSE
FATIGUE AMOUNT YOU OWE THAT TO
BE EXPERIENCING
COVID-19.
>>ZAC LASHWAY: SO WHILE THEY DO
PRESENT SIMILAR SYMPTOMS THERE
ARE STARK DIFFERENCES, YES,
THEY ARE WHAT TYPE OF ALLERGENS
DO PEOPLE DEAL WITH THIS TIME
OF YEAR AS WE NOW HERE IN THE
SUNSHINE STATE IT SEEMS AS IF
SOMETHING ALWAYS IS BLOOMING
WHAT ARE PEOPLE DEALING WITH
RIGHT NOW.
>> SO SUMMER WE USUALLY DEAL
LOT
GRASS POLLEN. FLOWERS ARE SO
YOU’RE GOING
TO HAVE PEOPLE ESPECIALLY WHO
LIKE TO WORK OUT HAVE TO DEAL
WITH A LOT OF ALLERGENS.
IT SAID THOSE ARE 2 THINGS THAT
YOU HAVE WORRY ABOUT.
BUT THERE ARE THINGS THAT YOU
CAN DO TO HELP YOURSELF, YOU
KNOW. SO FOR IF YOU’D LIKE TO
WALK AROUND AND OUR
2 JOB. POLLEN TENDS TO BE MUCH
HIGHER DURING THE MORNING HOURS
LIKE 5 TO 10. SO TRIED TO DO
THAT IN THE EVENING.
IF YOU’D LIKE TO WORK OUTSIDE
YOU KNOW ALWAYS WEARING A MASK
DEFINITELY WOULD HELP. IF YOU
HAVE A LOT HOUSE PLANT. YOU
KNOW TRIED
TO HAVE MINIMUM CONTACT OR
TRIED TO MINIMIZE YOUR HOUSE
PLANTS THAT WOULD WORK.
>>ZAC LASHWAY: AND SO WHEN
WE’RE TALKING ABOUT RELIEF
YOU’RE YOU’RE RECOMMENDING MAY
BE CHANGING SOME OF YOUR
ROUTINE YOUR
DAILY HABITS WITH THAT ARE
THERE ANY OTHER THINGS PEOPLE
CAN DO PERHAPS INSIDE WHETHER
THAT BE I TAKE A CERTAIN
PRESCRIPTION TO HELP WITH THE
RELIEF FROM ALLERGIES.
YES.
>> SO THE MOST COMMON
MEDICATION THAT THE USE FOR
ALLERGIES OVER THE
COUNTER ANTIHISTAMINES AND
THERE ARE SEVERAL AVAILABLE
OVER THE COUNTER STAY ALL WORK
FINE. SOME OF THEM ARE MOWER
SAID BAITING THAN
THE OTHERS. THEN WE HAVE NASAL
AGAIN WE HAVE SEVERAL OVER
THE COUNTER THAT YOU CAN USE
AND THEY DO DIFFER IN THEIR
CONTENT IN TERMS OF SUMMER MORE
TRYING THAN THE OTHERS AND OF
COURSE THE OBVIOUS THE
PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS.
>>ZAC LASHWAY: DOCTOR HAMDANI
WE’VE LAID OUT A LOT OF
INFORMATION THIS MORNING, BUT
IF YOU’RE AT HOME AND PEOPLE
ARE STILL WONDERING WHAT THEY
SHOULD DO
IF THERE. UNSURE OF WHETHER
WHAT THEY HAVE IS ALLERGIES
ASTHMA OR COVID-19 WHAT SHOULD
THEY DO NEXT.
>> SO IF YOU
HAVE FEVER. IF YOU HAVE INTENSE
MILE GIA AND THIS IS NOT LIKE I
SAID YOUR TYPICAL ALLERGY
SYMPTOMS. THAT’S ONE THAT YOU
NEED TO
WORRY ABOUT. PEOPLE WHO HAS TO
SUFFER FROM ALLERGIES, THEY JOE
DO TEND TO KNOW THEIR SYMPTOMS
WHICH ARE BASICALLY SNEEZING
RUNNY NOSE. AND WATCH THE EYES
WHICH WE DON’T SEE THAT IN THAT
OFTEN IN COVID DOCTOR HIM DOWN
AND WE APPRECIATE YOU