- Hey Doc, at what age
does men's foreskin fall off and go away.
Okay.
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Today we're back at it again
answering medical questions that you are afraid of,
or maybe a little embarrassed to ask your doctor.
Yep, that's right.
You guys are always flooding my comments,
asking me some really awesome questions.
And I figured if one person is wanting the answer,
chances are maybe multiple people
might be wondering the exact same thing.
I can't wait to answer your questions,
but fair warning to you all.
Sometimes these topics can get
a little bit strange and interesting,
but today we're not holding back and tackling them all.
But before we get into it, I'm Dr. Jordan Wagner.
I'm an emergency room doctor.
I've created this video series to help answer
some of your medical questions
and the questions that I get from patients
each and every day.
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All right, let's dive right in.
This one prattled me for quite a long time.
What is this sand on my eyes
that happens to be felt just after waking up
so that it irritates me.
Is it like tears that vaporized and left salt on my eyes?
Good question.
When we sleep, we're not blinking,
though our eyes are actually always producing some tears.
So what happens is those sand in the corner of the eyes
are actually just a buildup of evaporated, tears,
dust, hairs, different types of mucus,
different things that basically the eye produces.
But while we're awake,
we don't have it because we're blinking.
We're moving it, and very interestingly,
the tears actually go down into like the lacrimal ducts
that go into your nose.
That's why, when you cry a lot,
you actually have a runny nose,
and it's because you're producing all your tears
that are actually going down into the nasal passages.
Yeah, it's normal, it's safe,
and you just got to wipe it away,
and then you're good to go for the rest of the day.
Do farts always contain microscopic poop particles.
Yes, to an extent.
There was actually a study done a long time ago
where somebody actually farted with clothes on
and without clothes on to a Petri dish.
And literally, without the clothes on
the Petri dish grew bacteria
relating to the gastrointestinal tract.
So then the question is,
are you breathing in poop particles
when you're walking around
when people are farting all around you.
You're probably more at risk
of surface touching of things
where people aren't washing their hands
after going to the bathroom.
Even when you flush the toilet,
the aerosolization of the little poop particles there.
So make sure you shut the lid
when you're actually flushing the toilet.
To answer the question,
there are little microscopic little poop particles,
but most of the fart smell is all related to the gases.
And the most of the time the gasses
are related to the bacteria
that are in our gastrointestinal tract.
Aside from the obvious,
what is the hardest place to get a bullet out of somebody?
This is always a question asked,
and I always tell people, most bullets are left alone.
There's more damage that occurs trying to retrieve a bullet
than actually leaving it in.
And then there's always though it's a lead bullet.
Would you have a lead poisoning?
There are rare instances where it is important
to remove bullets from the body.
So if a bullet is literally in a joint,
it needs to be removed.
If it's in your CSF, in your brain,
it probably needs to be removed.
If it's impinging on a nerve,
and then typically that needs to be removed by a surgeon
who's a specialist at actually doing this.
And then another interesting one is the globe of the eye.
So what I mean is that if the bullet is in your eye
but you still have a function of your eye itself,
that bullet needs to get out.
So all of those indications are actually all hard to get.
Is it true that some males only have one testicle?
Is it a serious medical condition for men?
Sometimes you can be born without an organ
or an undescended testicle, which then can cause issues,
and then you lose that testicle,
or you lose a testicle due to trauma
or cancer or testicular torsion.
It's just like a kidney, right?
Some people are born with one kidney or they lose a kidney.
Their body's still functioning normal with just the one.
We have a duplicate system for certain reasons
to protect ourselves,
that way if something were to happen,
we have a backup so to speak.
Hey Dr. Wagner, I love your videos, and I have a question.
Is there any serious effects when you head bang?
All right, so I'm assuming you're talking
about headbanging to music
(rock music) like rocker style.
Okay, it all has to do with the extent of what you're doing.
You can cause yourself a whiplash injury
if you're going too drastic.
You can potentially cause a nerve impingement.
You can potentially cause a fracture
of your spinous processes on the back.
And then the question ends up being your brain,
what are you potentially doing?
Most of us who are headbanging are adults,
teenagers that our brains are fully encased by the skull,
meaning that there's not much space for the brain to move.
So you're not sloshing your brain back and forth.
But what happens over time is our brain shrinks.
If you're sloshing it back and forth,
you increase your risk of what's called
ripping your bridging veins.
You can cause bleeding
or something called the subdural hematoma.
You just gotta be careful with all these head movements.
Bodies are made to understand where we move in space
and gives our appropriate perception of where we are.
So if you're messing with it by headbanging a lot,
you can potentially cause more longterm damage.
Is it true your eyeballs will fall out of your sockets
if you sneeze with your eyes open.
No. (buzzer buzzing)
We have a normal reflex
that we close our eyes when we sneeze.
Can you fight it?
Yeah, potentially.
You're still probably gonna blink a little bit,
but you're not going to cause massive trauma injury.
Your eyeballs aren't going to fly out,
because think about it,
your eyeballs are attached in your socket.
Right in the back of the eye
it's attached by the optic nerves.
And then you have all the muscles of the eyes
that are attached.
The only time I've ever seen eyeballs
coming out of somebody's socket,
somebody has a thyroid condition
where basically the eyeballs
are kind of protruding a little bit,
but that's not coming out out.
If somebody has a, what's called a retrobulbar hematoma
due to trauma where blood is behind the eye
and it's pushing out,
what's happening in that specific time
is it's causing ischemia and you can go blind,
so you actually have to do an emergent procedure
called a lateral canthotomy
to actually allow the blood to come out from behind it
so the eye doesn't continue to have so much pressure on it.
Back to the original question,
sneezing will not make your eyeball pop out.
It hurts when I shove hot potatoes up my (bleep).
What should I do?
Okay, obviously don't stick potatoes up there.
Don't shove anything into the anus
that doesn't have a string attached
or a flange that you can get it back out.
We are negative pressure human beings,
and it will shoot up inside
and make it difficult to get out.
And then you potentially have to go to the ER
to get it removed.
And if they can't remove it in the ER,
you have to get it removed in the operating room.
And if they can't get it out
by going through the hole that's already there,
they have to open up your abdomen
and cut out your intestines.
So please don't do that.
Thanks for your informative channel.
My question is sometimes I get these pimples
in my inner thigh where my groin is.
When I pop them, pus and blood come out.
Is it a pimple, ingrown hair, cyst?
Good question, and pretty much D, all the above.
We call them abscesses usually, if there's pus in it.
It could be from an infected hair follicle.
It could be a cyst.
Sometimes you're gonna have sweat glands
on the inner thighs, and you could have a sebaceous cyst
where it's actually more of like this cheesy, thick,
really bad smelling, where it's like kinda more wormy
versus an abscess, which is more pus which is liquidy,
and that can come out.
Some people are a little bit more apt
to getting these type of skin lesions.
If you have continued issues,
definitely see a doctor about it.
Why can't I burp?
I love soda, but it hurts my stomach because of the gas.
I'm not sure why I cannot burp,
but it's just something that I've never been able to do
or have done.
It's basically almost like a type of reflex.
So there could be multiple different reasons
why this individual can't burp.
When you drink something,
it goes down through the esophagus, into your stomach.
So once it's in your stomach, you have sphincters,
which are basically like valves
to prevent things from going back up.
So when people are able to burp,
you generate gas and you're able to relax
your lower esophageal sphincter,
which then allows you to burp the gas out, all right,
this is all muscular related.
If you're not able to burp, you need to check to make sure
you don't have something achalasia,
or any type of dysfunction of the esophagus.
Just something to go to get checked out,
maybe by a gastroenterologist,
but it's not anything potentially life threatening per se.
Hey Doc, at what age does men's foreskin
fall off and go away.
By the way, thank you for your videos.
Little anatomy issue here.
Foreskin doesn't fall off and go away.
It's a piece of tissue at the end of the male genitalia.
We were all born that way.
Some people get circumcisions to remove it,
but if you don't remove it, it'll always be there.
As you actually get older,
the skin could potentially get tighter
causing something called phimosis.
The four skin goes over the glans penis
and it actually can cause constriction,
and then you might not be able to pee.
The other issue with having foreskin
is something called paraphimosis,
where it actually gets retracted too far
and constricts the head of the penis
and then can cause swelling.
And then you could need an emergent dorsal slit
on the foreskin itself to relieve the pressure
versus having a circumcision.
There are pros and cons to having foreskin,
but it is your personal decision to have it or not have it,
but unfortunately it doesn't just go away,
and it doesn't just fall off.
So if you have foreskin, you're having issues,
please see your doctor, see your urologist.
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