Every
Every month us health experts meet with the community for the
prime of your life women’s
health series. This free event
focuses on common challenges
and unique needs of women.
This month’s topic is perfect
for this time
of year. It’s all about
persistent coughs and when you
should seek medical treatment.
Monday’s event will be led by
us helps
head pulmonologist doctor Lisa
Jones and she joins us now to
tell us more good morning Lisa
morning before we get all that
we have a very important thing
that you need to do which is to
say good morning to somebody I
do I like to give a shout out
to Ari on a and to
shining sea. A merry Christmas
girls, I love you not very
sweet, I love that
okay so what are the symptoms
of a chronic cough and how do
we know that it’s something
really bad that’s a wonderful
question and thank you for
asking the symptoms of a
chronic cough and we have to
define what is a chronic cough.
>> That’s typically a cough
that’s been persisting
bothering you for more than 8
weeks and that can be a dry
cough or cough with
sputum production. But you
should be concerned about that
expression really after 8 weeks
of a persistent cough.
But with remembering that we
are very lucky to live in North
and Florida
and southern Georgia and we
have a very specific allergies
on here.
This is the time of year where
people are dealing with
postnatal trap. Allergies and
it gives you that raspy throat
or the access of clearing
need to pay attention to that
are easy remedies. But when a
purse aest you need to make
sure that you get to a primary
care provider which could be an
advance nurse practitioner, a
family medicine provider an
internal medicine doctor,
and those physicians will guide
to to
the proper referral so that
includes palm and I function
testing a chest x-ray
as we want to make sure that
we’re not dealing with
something that’s more serious
than just post nasal drip or
acid reflux so is it primarily
caused by allergies this time
of year what what is the reason
for the chronic cough.
>> Wonderful
question can. We as Palme and
all adjust we deal with majorly
3 D reasons
for cough and that’s
acid reflux Kurt and we
put acid reflux and Kurt
together at some upper airway
cough. Some time
because when you have post
nasal drip it’s going to get on
to those vocal chords and it’s
going to irritate the up and a
cough to clear that that mucus
when your
vocal cords. He can also have
acid reflux that’s going to
come up and it’s going to
tickle those sensors backs up
our throats. So we put that
together as most another
common Cause and then of course
a smoker’s cough and we want to
be very very cognisant of a
smoker’s cough because
depending on how many pack
hears a smoker
smoked right or you know age we
need to make sure that we are
looking at specific risk
factors so that we can get them
to
the screening that is
appropriate for their cases say
that I’ve had this chronic
cough or 6 weeks or more and
I’m finally realizing, OK this
is would like to see who do I
make an appointment with a
candle wonderful question so.
>> We have amazing primary care
providers in this day and age
again most practitioners
family medicine doctors
internal medicine doctors,
those are your
primary Doc so again us and EU
appropriately too appropriate
physician, so we’re lucky at
the U S health Sumter that
we have
resources downtown 8 Street.
We have a beautiful new
facility. Up at River city.
We have a clinic at Emerson
we’re reaching out to.
Wildlife and villages so we
have many many areas where you
can get to a good primary
care physician and then
hopefully that primary care
physician. We’ll do the
appropriate work up early
unable to a chest x-ray there
were
2 up. Upon us going to ask what
is the treatment to correctly
and they will do that and then
they will be for to our
amazing pulmonary critical care
department at
us health down 8 Street and we
spread our physicians out
through the community.
So that we can appropriately
take care of this population
and also knowing that
we have. Jacksonville’s
wonderful where a small medical
Mecca and there are amazing
institutions within a 60 mile
radius you help us help you
have Saint Vincent, you have
Memorial you have backed a ship
mail and it’s a small community
we all know each other we all
refer to each other so if that
cough is persisting after
8 weeks. Get your primary
care physician, so that they
can refer you to the
appropriate palm and I care
physicians so that we can get
to the bottom up okay, thank
you so much doctor Jens for
that important information
again.
>> This is a free educational
event happening Monday from
06:00PM to 7.30. It’s being
held at us health north on acts
like a Parkway and the first
floor conference room
to make a reservation just head
to us health, Jack’s dot org.