- Rawr The Dinosawr, "Is it a good idea
"to remove bullets lodged in your arm?"
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Hey, I think you're here
'cause you wanna know what happens to gum.
And I'm gonna answer that question
along with a bunch of others.
I'm responding to comments.
That's what we do on this channel,
we talk all things health while having a good time.
But this is evidence based fun.
Let's do it. (vocalizing)
I'm gonna go ahead and assume that what you're talking about
is an old bullet, like something that's been lodged
inside your body for a long period of time.
Not all bullets have to be removed.
Some, if they're not causing a problem,
you can do more harm than good by removing them
and going in operatively.
Some need to be removed right away.
And some can be problematic
'cause they could be a source of infection.
So it really depends on when it happened, how it happened,
the area where they are, what your anatomy's like.
But what I could say very confidently
is you shouldn't remove bullets lodged in your arm!
Let a doctor do it, let them decide if it's warranted
or even safe to do so.
Jillian Arthur, "Do patients get ticklish?"
Oh yeah they do. (laughing)
I mean my pediatric kids especially.
Like when I'm pressing on their belly,
if I want to check for appendicitis
or whatever I'm checking in their belly
and I'm pressing, and they're laughing,
and they're not in any pain, I already know
that it's very unlikely to be an acute abdomen.
So I like when my patients laugh and are ticklish
'cause then I know nothing serious is going on.
"Can taking large doses of Benadryl, 15 daily!
"For sleep cause long lasting damage?"
Yes, do not take 15 Benadryl at night for sleep.
Seriously, that's asking for trouble.
Benadryl is not a benign medication.
It truly has side-effects.
If you're needing 15 Benadryls to sleep,
that's a sign that something's not right
going on inside your body,
and you should be evaluated properly by a doctor.
Yesthepotatoislookingatyou.
First of all, dope user name.
"How can one decrease their libido? (laughing)
"Asking for a friend."
Decrease their libido?
Every question I've ever been posed by a patient
has always been to increase their libido.
If you're asking to decrease your libido,
perhaps there's something going on medically
that should be evaluated.
There's rare conditions that can cause you
to have an overly increased libido.
If you're really asking for a friend,
tell them to go see their doctor.
Ali Cato, "Why do my ears hurt
"after I wear my headphones for a couple of hours."
If you're talking about earbuds, I have the same problem.
I have the Apple AirPods and after a while
the plastic starts putting pressure on my tragus here.
And it really hurts after a while.
The over ear headphones
generally should be pretty comfortable
and not causing you pain, especially superficially
on the outside of your ear.
If your inner ears hurt, that's a sign
you're listening to your music too loudly.
Generally what I recommend
is no louder than 60% of the volume
that you should be listening on your phone.
Allan Balce, Balch, Balce?
"Do hats slash caps cause baldness?"
In very specific circumstances.
Meaning that if you're wearing a really tight baseball cap
or some kind of skullie where you're actually
putting traction on your hair,
that can cause a type of baldness called traction alopecia
I think that's exactly what it's called.
Where you're actually pulling out your hairs
from that constant pressure.
But otherwise, if you wear a hat that's well fitted
and not overly tight,
it's not gonna make you lose your hair.
In fact, most men will incorrectly assume
that this can happen because they like wearing hats,
they experience male-pattern baldness,
which is a hormonal issue,
has nothing to do with the hats.
And then they'll go ahead and blame the hats.
That's an area of correlation versus causation.
Like men wearing hats at a certain age
experiencing baldness at that same age,
they think oh look, these two things happened together,
they must cause one another, they don't.
Sarah Darwiche, "Question for Dr Mike.
"How and when do you recommend eating around night shifts?
"I find it hard to plan."
I do not have great advice on this
from a personal standpoint.
Because every time I was on night shift,
it was absolute mayhem in the hospital.
The thing that I tried to do was any time I had a moment
of silence, I would go and eat something small.
So that I always had some kind of food at the ready
whether it was a small salad, a protein bar,
some kind of fruits to go, something small
will keep you feeling full, energized,
as opposed to just eating one giant meal
in the middle of the night, getting overly full,
sleepy, that's gonna make your life complicated.
And the one thing I would avoid at all costs,
if possible, of course, is caffeine at night.
Especially if you're alternating
between day and night shifts.
That'll throw off your circadian rhythm really badly.
Fluffy Toast, mm!
I would love some fluffy toast right now.
'Cause I'm Whole30, no toast for me.
"I have really sweaty hands.
"What causes it to really sweat, and is it normal?"
If you have really sweaty hands,
that could be a condition called palmar hyperhidrosis.
Palmar meaning the palm of your hand,
hyper meaning more of, hidrosis, sweating.
This isn't that of an unusual condition,
but it causes a lot of distress to people
'cause when you're shaking peoples' hands, interacting,
it's obviously very uncomfortable.
Treatments for this usually are antiperspirant,
like the thing we use under our arms,
but here to plug those sweat glands.
The glands that are found here
are mostly eccrine sweat glands.
Which start sweating not to thermoregulate your body,
to cool you off, but really as a result of nervousness.
You have this sympathetic nervous system
which is your fight or flight response nervous system.
That's what happens when you see a lion,
when you're about to give a speech,
when you're arguing with your partner.
That's why your hands sweat.
As a result, those sweat glands start releasing that fluid.
Now, when you put antiperspirant on,
you essentially block those ducts,
no fluid gets released, you sweat less.
Sometimes they don't work.
You can use clinical strength products.
If that fails, there's always Botox injections.
Yeah, you could actually inject Botox
into the sweat glands of your palm
to reduce that sweating.
It works really well.
I've had some doctors talk to me about it
'cause I have underarm sweating that's pretty bad.
And I might be doing that in the future.
In fact, if you want me to make a Botox sweating video
injection into me, God I couldn't phrase it any worse,
leave it down below in the comments.
I want to make videos at least a series
of different medical procedures being performed on me.
If you're game, hit me in the comments.
Jude Bratton "What eyesight does require glasses?"
I think you mean like what should my eyesight be
that I would need glasses?
Well, glasses are important.
First of all, I wear them.
They could help with issues
like farsightedness, nearsightedness.
The ideal vision that many professions require
is 20/20 vision which means that you can see an eye chart
from 20 feet away as well as a person with normal vision
can see from 20 feet away.
If you have 20/30 vision, that means you can see
from 20 feet what they can see from 30 feet away.
Meaning someone with normal vision
can see better than you.
So 20/30 is worse than 20/20.
There's no rules for this.
If you have 20/30 vision, 20/40 vision,
you may have that in one eye, in both eyes.
You need to have a conversation with your optometrist
or ophthalmologist.
Some cases where you need perfect vision for your job,
it's important to correct your vision early on.
In some other instances where it's not a big deal
and you're sitting in front of a computer,
it might not be so important for you.
I will say that if your vision is chronically bad
and you're squinting and you're straining,
that can cause headaches, irritation of your eyes,
all sorts of issues.
So I do recommend you go get your eyes checked.
That's part of being a healthy person.
Panic! At The LSDisco (laughing)
"Sometimes I get random sharp pains from my uterus
"that don't always happen on my period
"and they can make me double over, is this normal?
Interesting that you can exactly pinpoint
that it's happening in your uterus
as opposed to your ovaries, your fallopian tube,
your stomach, your intestines.
If it's not happening along with your menstrual cycle,
perhaps there's a good reason for you to go see your doctor
and make sure that it's not something
going on with your gastrointestinal system.
There could be many different things happening.
And that's why I think you need a doctor
to sort of isolate other symptoms
that may be going on simultaneously.
Again, the best way that doctors make a diagnosis
is through a careful history asking you questions
about what's happening,
and what other symptoms are going on,
and two, doing a proper physical exam,
putting their hands on you,
checking certain aspects, pressing,
listening with the stethoscope.
The art of the physical exam is not lost.
Loretta Pleska, "Does gum really stay in my system
"for seven years if I swallow it?"
I need to know.
I must know where did this urban legend start from?
If somebody can tell me in the comments,
I'm gonna be so grateful for this.
If you swallow gum, accidentally,
your teacher called on you, someone yelled,
it's gonna come out of you with poop,
generally in a day or two.
Do you know how I know that gum doesn't stay
in your system for seven years, and I can prove it?
Because I've done colonoscopies!
I've done capsule endoscopies on patients.
I've literally given them a capsule with a camera,
goes through their digestive system, guess what?
No gum, nothing hanging out there for seven years.
Gum is just basically plastics,
sometimes it's like resin.
Your body can't digest that.
It can digest the sugars and stuff around it,
but it can't digest the actual gum.
So it essentially just makes its way
through your digestive system.
Now it doesn't mean you should just start swallowing
a ton of gum, because what can happen,
and I've seen case reports of this,
is if you swallow too much gum,
it can form a big ball and then cause an obstruction.
Or, if you swallow gum,
and then some kind of weird substances around it
like a coin, batteries,
these case reports happen with children,
the gum can encapsulate the coin or the battery or whatever
and then cause a blockage as well.
But if you just swallow gum occasionally
it's gonna come out in your poop, not the end of the world.
Don't worry about it.
Keira's Cloud, "How bad is it
"to inhale helium from a balloon?"
All I'll say is, it's not ideal.
The only thing you should be breathing in is air.
Notice I didn't say oxygen.
'Cause if you breathe in 100% oxygen,
kinda doesn't make sense,
'cause atmospheric oxygen is around 20%.
See how I knew that?
I went to school, I remember some facts.
I don't know why I thought that was fun to say.
Marie Teresa, like Mother Teresa.
"Let's say you're educated
"on how to do CPR but not licensed."
"Somebody drops and needs CPR.
"No one there knows a thing about how to do it.
"Is it best to help the person, will you get in trouble?"
Good Samaritan Law should protect you in this instance
because if the person's heart truly did stop
and they need CPR and you don't do it
for the fear that you may do it wrong,
that person's already gone.
You need to do CPR!
We need to not be afraid to do CPR!
In fact, a recent study has come out
and shown that women get less CPR
when they have a cardiac arrest, their heart stops,
in public, because people are afraid to touch female chests.
We should not be afraid to do this.
If someone's heart stops,
meaning they have no pulse, or they're not breathing
and they're unconscious, please do CPR
after calling for help so that you could extend
their chance of survival.
We need to be doing CPR.
There's huge movements from New York Presbyterian Hospital
to the American Heart Association
talking about hands only CPR, about how effective it is.
We should all learn how to do it.
And being licensed should only apply
in a health care setting.
Has nothing to do with if someone drops
and goes into cardiac arrest immediately
in front of you at the mall.
Julia Kaiser, "Can leaving glass in your foot
"cause long term harm?"
It's gonna cause long-term pain!
Glass is not supposed to be in your foot.
Is it gonna cause permanent harm?
Not usually unless you have diabetic neuropathy
and you don't feel it, and it's constantly causing
an open wound there and you can get an infection that way.
It's probably not the end of the world,
but if you see it, if it's causing you pain,
it needs to be addressed.
You don't want to have an open wound in your foot, why?
Because if you have an open wound in your foot,
that's where bacteria might come in and say what up?
When bacteria come in and say what up,
and you get an infection in your skin,
that's called cellulitis.
What's near your skin and your bone?
Ah, I gave it away.
What's near your skin? (laughing)
Bone!
If you get a bone infection that's called osteomyelitis.
'Cause infection can spread from the skin
to the neighboring bone.
What happens then?
Ooh, IV antibiotics for a while.
That's problematic, your foot's gonna hurt a lot.
Get that glass taken out. (bell dinging)
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