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Why Do We Get Hiccups &amp; How To Stop Them | RTC

Corgi land read it if I sweat a lot do I pee less yes your urine becomes more concentrated because you have less fluid to eliminate so that's why when you sweat you should always be drinking more water to make up for the losses that occur when you sweat also remember when you have a fever you also lose fluids more rapidly and as a result you should be drinking more fluids what would happen if all your bones suddenly teleported out of you you become a bag you just be a bag and the handle would be like your mouth because teeth are not bones so you could still grab by the teeth and the teeth are like the handle clearly I've watched one too many horror movies is it possible to get food PTSD I had to take a cinnamon apple flavored medicine for a flu two months ago I don't know what medicine that is and I'm pretty sure it didn't do anything sorry to say a lot of over-the-counter medications are unnecessary for flu and it made me throw up clearly didn't do well for you either ever since if I smell or see something cinnamon flavored I feel nauseous for the rest of the day I wouldn't necessarily call this PTSD medically speaking but colloquially speaking meaning just like an average words I understand what you mean by PTSD because it's an experience that is bringing back a memory but it's really more of your olfactory region of your brain being very intimately tied to the memory portion of your brain and as a result that nasal smell that you experience transmits to the memory makes you remember how you feel is it unhealthy to eat your boogers or does it help boost your immune Unity I would say it is unnecessary and I would say it's unhealthy because odds are if you're eating your boogers you're probably doing it with dirty fingers and your digits are potentially the dirtiest highest bacteria count portion of your body so don't eat your boogers is it possible I just became lactose intolerant later in life I was drinking a frappe and then I had intense abdominal pain and an urge to use the bathroom and it's happened every time I drink milk since this has never happened before um Not Unusual to develop or lose allergies and intolerances throughout your life sometimes they can even be temporary due to some sort of illness sometimes viral related don't know if that's exactly what's happening to you but definitely worthwhile to talk to a doctor about it I really want to start exercising more but I find going to the gym or running so boring is there a more fun exercise you'd recommend yes first of all try all those exercises that you found boring with a friend that goes a long way try taking a boxing class where they teach you techniques and you're punching the bag and you're learning how to move around with the bag try rock climbing try bouldering try stepping outside of your comfort zone and taking a dance class any type of movement that makes your heart rate go up is considered exercise so have fun with it Andrea from YouTube I'm on a long wait list to be seen by a new therapist is there any self-help things I can do in the meantime okay journaling very beneficial three good things at night very beneficial like literally writing three good things for a period of two weeks can help reshape your mind into how you're thinking about your anxieties and the good things that happen that we oftentimes Overlook as a survival mechanism that our brain does but the best thing to do is something that I recommend to all patients called bibliotherapy read a book called feeling good or feeling great by Dr David Burns and do some of the exercises in those books I think it's a great way to start if obviously it ever becomes too the symptoms become so severe that you feel like you're losing control that's a 9-1-1 call but otherwise I think bibliotherapy for mild symptoms is a great place to start Gab Evan H from YouTube if I drink a glass of water how long will it take until I pee it out what about food if I eat a big meal how long does it take to come out does any of it come out in different times there's a lot of variability here because if you consume water and you're already well hydrated so it's like excess water it'll come out faster if you consume water and then a caffeine-based substance like tea or coffee that acts as a diuretic it will also come out faster food so many variabilities is there fiber in the food how much did you eat beforehand at what time of the day did you eat how healthy is your digestive system for example my patients that have diabetes can develop something known as diabetes related gastroparesis the natural waves called peristalsis that keep the food moving in your gut actually get sort of thrown out of whack and as a result therefore food doesn't move as well throughout your gut so you feel bloated you develop nausea vomiting so as you can see Gavin a lot of variability here so I don't want to give you a Surefire answer chassis red YouTube my mom always told me the best way to get rid of hiccups is for someone to scare you she's right I actually don't think that's a good way and remember there's actually nerves involved when it comes to hiccups because that's happening as a result of a diaphragmatic spasm the diaphragm is that giant muscle that sits below the lungs that pulls the lungs down to breathe and then pushes up and relaxes and then helps the lungs uh exhale so in this scenario you have the vagus nerve interacting with the phrenic nerve creating this diaphragmatic spasm and what I found to work best for me and so many of my patients is a little spoon of granulated sugar there's also some really good evidence-based methods for breathing into a paper bag to increase carbon dioxide levels or like taking a breath in holding taking another quick deep breath in without exhaling and then another time one more time there's actually a prescription medicine called Thorazine that you can use to control hiccups when they're gone on for days on days on days and you can't control them with the natural methods that we just discussed but we really Reserve those for complex cases and they do happen with certain chemotherapy agents and surgical situations that I've seen in my patient in the past is a stinky belly button a healthy belly button I'm gonna go ahead and venture to say with the exception of your excrement AKA vomit poop nothing should really smell bad on your body your nose is acting as a chemical receptor to tell you that there's something off so for example if your belly button starts creating a foul smell odds are there's some kind of bacteria and or fungus having a little nightclub party in there with DJ the thing you pull out of your belly button called BJ Lynn spinning lent this skit Cloud enthusiasts Reddit okay but like how do doctors learn CPR do you have to go to a normal CPR class like normal people is there Just One Day in med school where they teach you is there a whole semester-long course called CPR 101 that would be epic I would go to a chest compressions year-long course you do something called BLS and while pretty much anyone can go to this as long as you sign up most medical schools have a day where all the students are scheduled to go through this and then usually what we also do as Physicians is called ACLS training which is the next step after BLS because that's basic life support what to do if the Heart full on stops and you need to intervene you need to give medications if the heart is being so fast or so slow how to intervene things to check this is my BLS provider card here that you get when you complete the course my ACLS provider card look at that American Heart Association did you see my kiosk if you haven't check it out if someone goes through a horrible accident loses a limb well that limb goes stiff from from rigor mortis or does that only happen to the whole body oh that's a good question I have no idea I have not experienced enough traumas in my medical education to know if that's true Mosh Pit YouTube why don't we ever sneeze while we're asleep why does it only happen when we're awake uh it probably can happen to some who are in light sleep but in deep Sleep these types of reflexes are probably suspended and I I still think that if there's enough stimulation of the airway you probably could sneeze out of asleep but you're awake at that point so you're not asleep tricky tricky questions like what came first the chicken or the egg the sneeze or the Sleep hey Dr Mike do I need to eat the actual fruits and vegetables or can I just take the vitamins that have the same ingredients that way I don't have to waste calories on the veggies no eat the veggies What vitamin supplements are are the things that we've so far learned that is the healthy part of fruits and vegetables it doesn't mean that's the only part there's so many other things within fruits and vegetables like phytonutrients that we don't fully yet understand or have fully yet explored and also there's other benefits to eating fruits and vegetables outside of the mineral and vitamin content like fiber which supplements don't contain I've had a hernia so I've assumed for a number of years it only hurts when I press on it is there any reason I should go to the doctor to treat this or can I just go on doing about not doing anything about it for another decade I'm going to talk about an inguinal hernia now because there are other types of hernias and they all carry different risks but if we're talking about an abdominal hernia or abdominal wall hernia what ends up happening is you create a risk for something known as bowel incarceration your intestines AKA your gut actually can poke through this hole because a hernia is an opening in the abdominal wall and if you have an opening and a piece of the intestine sticks out of that wall and then it starts getting choked out because of its positioning when I say choked out means the pressure around it due to inflammation or its position starts increasing so much pressure that it cuts off circulation and starts strangulating that bowel that's a surgical emergency because that bowel is literally dying and needs to be rescued so the reason why we proactively operate on hernias is to decrease the likelihood of that happening and what's interesting about hernias is that the larger the hole meaning the bigger the hernia the less likelihood that uh an incarceration or strangulation of the bowel would actually happen so it's the smaller ones that don't look as bad that actually tend to be more problematic when I've got a cold and I'm blowing my nose a lot my snot changes color sometimes it's clear sometimes it's yellow what's the difference it's about the cells that are present inside your snot a lot of people make the assumption that if there's not as a certain color they know whether or not it's a bacterial or viral infection that's not always true because for example many people say if you're not as green that means you have a bacterial infection that is true in some cases but at the same time sometimes your snot can start being clear and then towards the end of your viral illness change color to something that's yellow or green and still be viral and not be bacterial so I don't use that as the sole judge of what's going going on it needs to be thought about in a whole spectrum of whether you're having bacteria-like symptoms uh like fever sinus tenderness and then the color of the snot can be one of those variables but I wouldn't use it as the sole discriminatory point for making a diagnosis why does Vicks Vapor Rub make I love that you said Vapor Rub Vapor Rub uh I only gotta be in geography people rub my girlfriend just um just tell me people rub by the way the podcast with Stephen he is a banger and if you haven't signed up and subscribe to the checkout podcast you're missing out check it out because everyone's loving it why does Vicks Vapor Rub make my cough go away faster than cough medicine what is that stuff I'm pretty sure Vicks Vapor Rub is just Menthol Menthol is interesting because what it can do is create a cooling sensation which feels good maybe create some opening and dilation of the airway on a superficial level but in reality cough medicine doesn't really work I really don't use cough medicine in the huge majority of my patients unless I'm treating the source of the cough like acid reflux post nasal drip asthma where I can give them an inhaler to bronchodilate the spasm away I like using it uh a Steam Inhaler for when I have a coffee it really feels like it opens things up why is it so much harder to fall asleep as an adult than it is a kid we have a higher sleep need as children meaning we sleep for longer hours and as we get older the need for deep sleep decreases the amount of sleep a one-year-old needs versus 101 year old needs is drastically different and something to also think about that the number of REM hours of sleep is difficult to maintain the older we get and I'm sure anxiety has a component there too but that's not one that's routinely taught to us Connie Thai how do I unclog my nostrils before bed it always feels like one of them is totally stuffed if I have a patient who knows this stuffy quite often I would try my best to narrow down to the most common diagnosis and try some medications like nasal sprays I like using nasal saline to clear out the nasal passageways because it's a benign thing to do doesn't have real big side effects and then there's other things that we can do like histamine nasal sprays steroidal nasal sprays and if those don't work I really like to get an uh ear nose and throat specialist on board to do a fiber optic exam where they put a little camera in to check the anatomy there's different parts of the nasal passageways that can be operated on where I've seen patients get good results and then some patients that have overdone it so make sure that when you do meet with an ENT talk about the risks and benefits for your specific condition also another cool tip here is throw a humidifier in your room sometimes just moistening the mucous membranes helps a lot and also staying well hydrated thins out mucus makes it easier to breathe as well they say humans use only 10 of their brains the smarter people use more of their brains I think this is a complete myth like I don't even have evidence to say it but I think I've looked this up in the past I think it's a complete myth is there a health benefit to wearing those barefoot shoes with the toes in some instances there might be but they're also significant risks we've seen people develop stress fractures because they have very thin padding but then some people develop stronger shins they have pros and cons weigh them for your own individual decision I've never really seen an instance where I'm like yeah that was the way to go I think if you're interested in Barefoot training doing it on Sand is probably the way to go but doing it on hard concrete is just going to create so much shock that will go into your knees and hips that long term I don't find it really beneficial is marching band a sport does it raise your blood pressure your pulse does it make you sweat is it competitive if you answered yes to those questions definitely a sport I want more questions leave them down below and by the way never drink hot stuff at this specific temperature that I say in this video really important to check it out like can prevent cancer by watching this video and as always stay happy and healthy [Applause] [Music]

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