Lyme disease and other Summer ills.

0:00 Speaker 2 With us.

0:00 Speaker 1 Today’s doctor Peter Michelos are in house genius. Whether it’s history, whether it’s science, whether it’s medicine. Doctor Michlos is the place to go. Doctor Mihlos, give us an update. What’s going on now? You know it’s hot, sum of anything new?

0:16 Speaker 2 Well, yes, the heat is definitely affecting many people. And recently we had the air quality issues with the Canadian wildfires, so respiratory diseases were on the rise. But one of the bigger concerns that we’re seeing in certain areas that are warmer and we had a mild winter, we’re seeing tickborn illnesses and many diseases can be transmitted by ticks.

0:43 And everybody just always thinks of limes disease, but there’s a whole other set of diseases in addition to limes. One is called anaplasmosis or radiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, toularemia, and another one called babisiosis, which can also there’s a lot of damage and it can even close the scleen to explode in some cases because it gets overwhelmed. So

1:06 when people go for they get by a tick. I tell them to remember not only to ask for a lime sest, but to ask for a tick panel. And also we’re seeing many more cases in children because they’re out there and they’re playing, and we need to protect kids.

1:25 We need to wear a long sleeve and socks to try to protect. Try to keep little kids, especially out of the woods after they come from playing outside. Good to be inspected, and especially those who have pets, because now we’re learning that pets also get bidden by ticks and they bring them into the house and then they

1:44 can jump to humans. So that’s something that we need to be aware of. And there are treatments and antibody treatments. Try to get seen as fast as possible when you have a tick on it. If you don’t want to try to pull it off yourself, go to an urgent care center and there are various methods of tweezing them off.

2:01 Not good to pull them off suddenly, it’s good to tease them off slowly and so parts of the tick doesn’t remain inside, and then you will see your doctor get appropriate course of antibiotics. Because late it acts like a syphless like disease because it is a spiro key, it actually looks like syphless under the microscope. But again,

2:21 if you catch it early, it’s treated. You usually get two weeks of antibiotics after a tick bipe. And then the other thing that we tell people to watch out for is sometimes if they eat meat and they have very bad reactions. There’s something called alpha gal which is also from a tick born disease where your immune system

2:40 attacks the byproducts of eating meat and you get quite sick, and then you have to avoid eating meat when you develop this after a tick born bite. The other thing we’re seeing on the rise, which we never saw before is not endemic in the United States malaria, which comes from other countries and people visit the countries that are endemniced.

3:01 But for the first time in twenty years, we’ve seen cases of malaria that originated here in the United States, in Texas and Florida. So that’s another thing that we need to be on the lookout. Try to protect kids.

3:12 Use your anti mosquito repellent type substances. I like I had little kids, and even now if I go somewhere, I always put some skin so soft on my ankles, on my elbows, back of my neck, and that’s just a more natural, non chemical way to repel it’s not advertised for that, but it does help. But it’s good

3:32 to protect kids from that. And also in your backyards, tried not to leave pools of water, puddles of water because that is also a problem. And then the other thing I tell all the young people to please use protection, protect yourselves because sexually transmitted disease are on the rise.

3:49 In the past year, we had one hundred and seventy five thousand cases of siplis in the United States and we’ve also had some resistant cases, and the medicine to treat a goal bicillin has been back ordered backlog because we depend on a lot of other countries so the components to make our pharmaceuticals. So we tell people to

4:08 please be aware, to be careful, to avoid things because chlamydia another sexually transmitted these on the rise, and we just want to keep people healthy and safe. Use protection, use common sense because our health is wealth, and healthcare is national security, and our supply chain for pharmaceuticals is national security. And then the last quick thing I’ll mention

4:33 is they studied the gut microbiome and centurions in Japan and they add unique and balanced, diverse microbiomes so we’re learning more and more about how important the microbiome is for our health and eighty percent of our immune system is in our gut. And we’ll continue to report on some of the latest discoveries on how to stay healthier

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5:03 Speaker 1 Well, you know, Spark used to have an expression, live long and prosper, and so I’m saying to you, live long and prosper and we’ll catch up again real soon.

5:13 Speaker 2 Thanks John for always getting the truth out on the Cats round Table.