Dr. Howard Smith Reports

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Your olfactory sense departs with virus arrival in your body yet returns completely in some 74% as infection wanes.  UC San Diego researchers report these findings after studying 59 CoVid positive and 203 CoVid negative patients.

The majority of those reporting sensory changes with infection suffered a profound loss of smell and taste with onset of infection.  Those with olfactory sense losses in addition to fever and vague flu symptoms were almost 11 times more likely to test CoVid positive than those without sensory loss.

The study authors argue that loss of these senses should be added to fever and cough as indications for CoVid testing.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/alr.22579

#covid #coronavirus #smell #taste #olfactory

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Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/eSuVw_PTIxg

Your olfactory sense departs with virus arrival in your body yet returns completely in some 74% as infection wanes.  UC San Diego researchers report these findings after studying 59 CoVid positive and 203 CoVid negative patients.

The majority of those reporting sensory changes with infection suffered a profound loss of smell and taste with onset of infection.  Those with olfactory sense losses in addition to fever and vague flu symptoms were almost 11 times more likely to test CoVid positive than those without sensory loss.

The study authors argue that loss of these senses should be added to fever and cough as indications for CoVid testing.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/alr.22579

#covid #coronavirus #smell #taste #olfactory

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/QpBicOoBuE4

Those with inflammatory bowel disease who become symptomatic and test positive for CoVid19 should speak with their doctors about discontinuing their specialized IBD medications.  The American Gastroenterological Association recommends this step in their just-released guidelines.

Many of the anti-inflammatory medications including steroids, salicylates, immunosuppressant drugs such as azathioprine, methotrexate, and cyclosporine, and biologics such as adalimumab, infliximab, and golimumab could adversely impact your host defenses to the virus.  They could also ramp up aspects of the cytokines storm that attacks vital organs.

These medications and IBD itself do not appear to increase a persons risk of contracting the virus.  Continue your medications until your doctor says otherwise.

https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(20)30482-0/pdf

#ibd #covid19 #coronavirus #ulcerativecolitis #crohns

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/QpBicOoBuE4

Those with inflammatory bowel disease who become symptomatic and test positive for CoVid19 should speak with their doctors about discontinuing their specialized IBD medications.  The American Gastroenterological Association recommends this step in their just-released guidelines.

Many of the anti-inflammatory medications including steroids, salicylates, immunosuppressant drugs such as azathioprine, methotrexate, and cyclosporine, and biologics such as adalimumab, infliximab, and golimumab could adversely impact your host defenses to the virus.  They could also ramp up aspects of the cytokines storm that attacks vital organs.

These medications and IBD itself do not appear to increase a persons risk of contracting the virus.  Continue your medications until your doctor says otherwise.

https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(20)30482-0/pdf

#ibd #covid19 #coronavirus #ulcerativecolitis #crohns

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To safely reopen society during the CoVid era, we must all accept that vaccination and viral treatments are safe and effective.  Psychologists at Texas Tech now report the reasons some deny such lifesaving medical interventions.

The researchers surveyed 158 participants with profound negative feelings about vaccines: so-called vaccine deniers.  These individuals as a group tended to always overestimate the dangers including injury or death associated with a variety of conditions and events including cancer, childbirth, fireworks, and flooding.

Levels of pessimism and fear showed no association with education level.   Treatment deniers tend to seek out sources of negative information, and bad news travels farther than good.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X20302644?via%3Dihub#!

#covid #coronavirus #deniers #vaccines #therapy

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/m2bW6n7NBKs

To safely reopen society during the CoVid era, we must all accept that vaccination and viral treatments are safe and effective.  Psychologists at Texas Tech now report the reasons some deny such lifesaving medical interventions.

The researchers surveyed 158 participants with profound negative feelings about vaccines: so-called vaccine deniers.  These individuals as a group tended to always overestimate the dangers including injury or death associated with a variety of conditions and events including cancer, childbirth, fireworks, and flooding.

Levels of pessimism and fear showed no association with education level.   Treatment deniers tend to seek out sources of negative information, and bad news travels farther than good.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X20302644?via%3Dihub#!

#covid #coronavirus #deniers #vaccines #therapy

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The South Korean Centres for Disease Control and Prevention report at least 124 relapsed cases of CoVid19.  These are patients who tested positive, clinically recovered from the disease, tested virus-negative several times, but then redeveloped symptoms and positive tests.

This represents 1.1% of the 10,591 cases to date and 1.6% of the recovered cases.  We don’t yet know if these recurrently positive cases represent reinfected individuals or those with reactivating of the virus.  We await more information about patient’s antibody status and viral genetic fingerprints.

We have to learn about this new coronavirus.  Until we do, the only safe place is away from all but your closest family members.

https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/covid-19-pandemic-more-cases-of-virus-reactivation-being-reported-in-recovered-patients-in-south-korea

#covid19 #coronavirus #reactivation #latency #reinfection

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/B_IQ53RXBrY

The South Korean Centres for Disease Control and Prevention report at least 124 relapsed cases of CoVid19.  These are patients who tested positive, clinically recovered from the disease, tested virus-negative several times, but then redeveloped symptoms and positive tests.

This represents 1.1% of the 10,591 cases to date and 1.6% of the recovered cases.  We don’t yet know if these recurrently positive cases represent reinfected individuals or those with reactivating of the virus.  We await more information about patient’s antibody status and viral genetic fingerprints.

We have to learn about this new coronavirus.  Until we do, the only safe place is away from all but your closest family members.

https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/covid-19-pandemic-more-cases-of-virus-reactivation-being-reported-in-recovered-patients-in-south-korea

#covid19 #coronavirus #reactivation #latency #reinfection

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Does tapping, humming, slurping, and loud chewing drive you nuts?  You may have misophonia that is a real disorder with real differences in your brain wiring.

For years, many professionals doubted  the existence of this problem.   Then, after study by groups in Australia and the UK over the past decade, the annoyance by repetitive sounds has been found to be associated with changes in heart rate, skin conductivity, and neuronal activity in the brain’s frontal lobe and anterior insular cortex.  A few with this problem even develop heightened anger and a propensity for violence.

There is no cure, but knowledge is power.  Mindfulness and self-hypnosis may help.

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)31530-5

#misophonia #repetitivenoise #tapping #humming #chewing

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/ZR0e2YI_Ka0

Does tapping, humming, slurping, and loud chewing drive you nuts?  You may have misophonia that is a real disorder with real differences in your brain wiring.

For years, many professionals doubted  the existence of this problem.   Then, after study by groups in Australia and the UK over the past decade, the annoyance by repetitive sounds has been found to be associated with changes in heart rate, skin conductivity, and neuronal activity in the brain’s frontal lobe and anterior insular cortex.  A few with this problem even develop heightened anger and a propensity for violence.

There is no cure, but knowledge is power.  Mindfulness and self-hypnosis may help.

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)31530-5

#misophonia #repetitivenoise #tapping #humming #chewing