- Please clear up this myth.
Sex with a virgin will cure you of HIV.
Shady medical myths you shouldn't believe,
missing sperm, and your hand's bigger than your face,
does that mean cancer?
What?
Today, we are back at it for round five
of breaking down and answering
all of your need to know medical questions from Discord.
All right, let's dive right in.
"Can you go blind if your eyes are super dry?"
Yes, if you have such dry eyes.
- Ah, my eyes.
- What ends up happening
is you end up causing issues to your cornea,
the cornea is the clear coating over your eyes.
What happens is if you have really dry eyes,
you can cause abrasions to these areas and cause scarring.
And then all of a sudden,
form this unique layer over top of your eyes
to where you cannot see.
Please make sure that you address this ASAP
with an ophthalmologist,
which is an eye surgeon and an eye specialist.
That way you can prevent any future harm
and permanent damage relating to your eyes
because they're just dry.
"Hey, Doctor Wagner,
I heard a while ago that if you take a hot shower,
it's better to rinse with cold water
because it's better for your skin."
- Hello, what have we here?
- When you have the water too hot,
it actually strips your skin of the normal lubricants.
- Does the skin look red and swollen?
- And so, it actually causes dryness,
skin cracking, makes it look unhealthy
versus cold showers, kind of keeps that in there,
keeps the the lubrication of the skin still intact
and gives the skin a much healthier look, a glow,
same with your hair as well.
"Sometimes when I sit long, my testicles hurt
and when I run, the same thing happens.
The only way I found helps out
is if I give a gentle pull and the pain stops.
Should I be worried?"
Yes, you need to get this checked out.
There are multiple different factors.
We should not be walking around all the time
or sitting with pain without any specific reason.
If you're having any pain to any body parts
and it doesn't seem normal.
- That's not normal.
- You have to get checked out by a urologist,
and this is something you do need to look into.
"I have black areas on my body,
like armpits, crotch, elbows, knees.
I heard this is due to a lack of insulin.
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If there's hyperpigmentation,
that's when somebody describes darker areas,
it could be caused by multiple different things.
Diabetes, difficulties with insulin resistance,
not enough insulin, but insulin resistance,
acromegaly, hypothyroidism, could be due to obesity.
If you do experience this,
definitely get it checked out.
"Hello, Dr. Wagner, I have a weird and interesting question.
Can urine help with cuts
or is this just a silly fact our parents told us?"
The best way to clean out a wound is sink water,
please do not use urine.
There is still a small amount of bacteria
and could that bacteria cause an infection
and get into your bloodstream?
Possibly, so please do not use urine to clean wounds.
"Hi, I'm 18 years old and can't grow a beard.
Should I be worried?"
I wouldn't worry right now at this age.
You can have a delayed onset of growing a beard,
you could also have genetics
that you wouldn't have significant amount of facial hair.
I would wait a couple years,
and if you continue to have issues
where maybe you haven't noticed beard,
you haven't noticed armpit hair or groin hair,
yes, definitely see a doctor about this
and maybe get evaluated by an endocrinologist
or somebody that has to do with hormones.
"Does spicy food actually increase body temperature?"
Yes, a spicy food can increase circulation,
increase the blood movement,
and increase your body's temperature.
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So just be careful with too much spicy food,
you don't wanna wreak havoc on your gastrointestinal lining,
including your esophagus and your stomach,
and cause significant irritation if you are not used to it.
"What happens if you beat your meat
and your sperm doesn't come out when you feel it?"
So you're saying you have an orgasm,
you feel like you're ejaculating, but nothing's coming out.
- Is that hair gel?
- It's actually called a dry ejaculation.
And this could occur but it shouldn't occur very commonly.
So if this is happening to you on a very frequent basis,
please make sure that you go see your doctor
and see a urologist to make sure that
everything is appropriately intact,
there could be some anatomical abnormalities
that need to be evaluated.
"What's the weirdest thing
you've ever pulled out of a patient?"
So I've pulled out different types of glassware,
from cups to scotch glasses to flutes, all different things.
And then you have light bulbs,
you have different types of sex toys that can get lost.
Please do not put anything,
particularly down there,
that doesn't have a string attached to it
or a flange to prevent it from getting lost.
"Is it true that autistic people
often have stronger senses than neurotypicals?
I'm autistic and I can hear a conversation
from up to 30 feet away."
Individuals that have autism
could have heightened senses to be able to, say,
hear a conversation that is 30 feet away.
And that is also why really loud noises
cause a significant say disturbance
in individuals who have this as well.
And it has to do with different parts of the brain
actually being active.
"Why does the naval, AKA the belly button, stink horribly?"
Think about it, it is a dark crevice.
- [Speaker] Hey, why is it so dark in here?
- In our bodies that people probably don't clean very well
and they've found tons of different types of bacteria
that are growing in people's belly buttons.
They've actually discovered new bacteria
related to the belly button.
- And then I wanna tickle your belly button.
- If you're having issues, definitely get checked out.
Please clear up this myth.
"Sex with a virgin will cure you of HIV."
This is a massive myth,
you cannot be cured by having intercourse with a virgin.
HIV is the human immunodeficiency virus.
It destroys your immune system,
wipes out all your white blood cells
and increases your risk and susceptibility
to a multitude of infections.
It is a crime in the United States in 35 states
to knowingly spread HIV to another individual.
"My hand is bigger than my face,
does that mean I have cancer?"
No, that has nothing to do with cancer,
it has to do with how you are anatomically born.
Some people have big hands, some people have small hands,
some people have small heads, some people have big heads.
Cancer hides, doesn't tell us that they're there,
and sneaks up until our bodies are overrun by the cancer
that it finally shows its ugly head.
"Is it bad to drink rainwater?"
So you would think, okay, rainwater, it's pure,
it's coming from the sky.
There are environmental things
that can mix in with rainwater
that could actually contaminate it.
Make sure you decontaminate either, you know,
boiling water or using a decontaminant
or different types of water treatment.
There are many out there,
especially for people who have gone out to go camping
or in the wilderness and they need to, you know,
clean the water that they find in nature.
"I have constipation and my butt got cut by my poop,
what is happening?"
Constipation, what the heck is constipation?
It's when you're not pooping and your poop gets dehydrated
or the water gets out and becomes very hard
and it gets very hard to push out
and causes a lot of pain as it comes out
'cause you're trying to relax, but it hurts.
But what can happen is the anus
could actually get a small cut
and we call those anal fissures.
Treatment ends up being what's called a sitz bath,
which is basically either warm water
or warm salty water to help heal it.
But it takes weeks, months to heal this.
I tell every single patient
that you need to be looking at your poop
every time you have a bowel movement.
And if you start having abnormalities,
I know it's gross and weird,
start taking photos of it
so that way when you try to describe it
to your healthcare provider,
you can actually show them a photo and then,
yes, you can delete it forever thereafter.
Great questions, everybody,
I love doing these questions, it's like a teaching moment,
I feel like I'm giving medical lectures and I enjoy that.
- I enjoy that, that's just who I am.
- Keep 'em coming, send the questions my way.
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