Search results

Can't believe it, I just watched Simon Wesley on a US PBS Newhour broadcast (about 34 minutes in) He has a certain manic self-confidence that I'm sure I would find annoying. (No offense meant to bi-polar individuals.) Here in the US, the governor of California today had a televised and long...

I like this statement from the head of WHO health: https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---9-march-2020

I like your expression, ignorant nutcase. Says it all.

My question is why was it found in feces? Is that in only serious cases with organ failure/death? Did the virus appear in feces because the GI tract is colonized or is it cross-contamination from hands? Or lab error or contamination of bedpans or? I don't know. Maybe best to eat with...

Interesting! I think my coursework and clinical experience are past their sell-by date.

For the record, urine is sterile unless you have a urinary tract infection, but picks up germs as it exits the body and of course later begins to smell urine-y.

My favorite disinfectant is cheap and easily available, or was. Household bleach. We used it in the dialysis units to disinfect machines and surfaces. It's one part full-strength bleach to 9 parts cold water. (you can eyeball it making sure there's more than enough bleach, but may lighten...

I read an article in the NYTimes today about a mathematician's review of the Covid-19 statistics. He said that if there is a community case that is hospitalized (a serious case), then it has certainly spread already (to an extent) in the community. This is based on the serious case rate...

I think the anglo-saxon cultural expectation of stoicism (versus the Latin one of expressing one's emotions of pain) play a role here in the concept of pain catastrophizing. One is expected to (I've read too many times) to "just get on with your life." Alas, it doesn't work that way.

For women only, if you fear running out of loo tissue : use an od rag to wipe off the few drops of (sterile) urine. Keep it by the toilet and rinse rag every other day in hot water. This works and isn't gross at all. This can decrease the amount of tissue used by half. I'm doing it for fun...

I have moments where instead of thinking of getting a hearing aid, I hope for the opposite: complete deafness.

I know this sounds weird, but I have two rooms, one hot in the summer which is nice in the winter. Do you have another room that is quieter than your bedroom that you might consider turning temporarily into a bedroom, if need be? I would purchase some headphones, making sure you can return them...

Our president yesterday had a televised meeting with heads of big pharma. The president kept insisting that the current flu vaccine could be tweaked into a Covid-19 vaccine. The incredulous looks on the pharma heads. local report. Our public health department is trying to trace over a 100...

Hi. Here's a couple of things about the Bose noise cancelling (now they have Alexa or something built in: Bose comfort is the brand, but I have an older version, I don't know if plain noise-cancelling Bose is still on the market). First off, with ear plugs and noise cancelling Bose, you are...

@Jonathan Edwards: is chalet cooking Brit-speak for smorgasborg (as we say in the USA or however it is spelled here) or all-you-can-eat restaurants where people serve themselves again, over again, rather unsanitarily. As a pessimistic, misanthropic, introvert with a quasi medical background and...

We have two test-positive cases in my town. I'm in a vulnerable age group (over 65). So, in order to decrease my stress level, I don't plan to be around people or the surfaces they may contaminate. Some things are positive: I will set up online a grocery delivery service, finally. And, for...

I think I might just have the influenza virus. I had the flu vaccine but its effectiveness at preventing is about 50%. Have no runny nose. Muscle aches from hell..

I agree.

I'm in California and just had two days of extreme muscle aches, slight fever, diarrhea, headache, HH6 activation big time, congestion, sneezing, slight shortness of breath, feeling very crap and in bed and cognitively impaired. Sick for four days so far. I hope it's my exposure to the covid...

'New' concept of nocioplastic pain. Uh, that's central sensitization and it ain't new in scientific 'new' terms. "...not only novel applications of old drugs {oooh, exciting!}, but also, and in particular {insert some editing for redundancy}...complementary therapies, such as..." Mind-f**k...