Dr. Howard Smith Reports

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Woom Bikes USA is recalling its bike due to a defective front fork.  It can loosen and detach leading to a fall and injury.   Contact Woom for a free repair kit by calling 1-855-966-6872.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2020/Woom-bikes-USA-Recalls-Bicycles-Due-to-Fall-and-Injury-Hazards-Recall-Alert

#recall #woom #bicycle

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/cisBEkcOKHE

Woom Bikes USA is recalling its bike due to a defective front fork.  It can loosen and detach leading to a fall and injury.   Contact Woom for a free repair kit by calling 1-855-966-6872.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2020/Woom-bikes-USA-Recalls-Bicycles-Due-to-Fall-and-Injury-Hazards-Recall-Alert

#recall #woom #bicycle

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/JAqMDvfE6wI

A slew of products have been recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission this week since they fail to meet child safety standards.  These include:

— Plant Therapy’s Wintergreen Essential Oils and Essential Oil Blends with Wintergreen

— Earth Sonnets Wintergreen Essential Oil

— Earthroma Wintergreen Essential Oil

— Belle Chemical Sodium and Potassium Hydroxide Products

— Boyer. Sodium and Potassium Hydroxide Products 

— Novartis Sandimmune and Neoral Blister Packs

— Numbskin Pain Relief Cream

Return these products to the point of purchase.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls?page=1

#recalls #childpackaging

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/JAqMDvfE6wI

A slew of products have been recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission this week since they fail to meet child safety standards.  These include:

— Plant Therapy’s Wintergreen Essential Oils and Essential Oil Blends with Wintergreen

— Earth Sonnets Wintergreen Essential Oil

— Earthroma Wintergreen Essential Oil

— Belle Chemical Sodium and Potassium Hydroxide Products

— Boyer. Sodium and Potassium Hydroxide Products 

— Novartis Sandimmune and Neoral Blister Packs

— Numbskin Pain Relief Cream

Return these products to the point of purchase.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls?page=1

#recalls #childpackaging

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/caWeC8yVPFI

Tiffany Food Corporation of Brooklyn, NY is recalling its Huanfushanzen Huang Mountain Tea Mushroom dried mushrooms.  This product may contain undeclared sulfites.  Those will a sulfite sensitivity or allergy may develop a severe reaction after eating this product.

Product was sold in FL, OH, CA, and MA.

Return this product to the store for a full refund.  If you have questions, call the company at 1-347-627-8588.

https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/tiffany-food-corp-issues-alert-undeclared-sulfites-huangfushanzen-dried-mushrooms

#recall #huangmountain #mushroom #sulfites

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/caWeC8yVPFI

Tiffany Food Corporation of Brooklyn, NY is recalling its Huanfushanzen Huang Mountain Tea Mushroom dried mushrooms.  This product may contain undeclared sulfites.  Those will a sulfite sensitivity or allergy may develop a severe reaction after eating this product.

Product was sold in FL, OH, CA, and MA.

Return this product to the store for a full refund.  If you have questions, call the company at 1-347-627-8588.

https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/tiffany-food-corp-issues-alert-undeclared-sulfites-huangfushanzen-dried-mushrooms

#recall #huangmountain #mushroom #sulfites

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/HLkdVvOkQzE

Guan’s Mushroom Co. of Calfornia is  recalling its Enoki Mushrooms from Korea.  These may well be contaminated with Listeria.   If you eat contaminated product, you are likely to develop a severe, life=threatening gastrenteritis, and that’s particularly likely if you are very young, old, or have a weakened immune system.  Even young, healthy individuals will get high fever, headache, nausea, cramps, and diarrhea.  Pregnant women may miscarry.

This product was sold in CA, NY, and PA.

Return the product to the store for a full refund.  Questions to the company at 1-323-223-1188.

https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/guans-mushroom-co-recalls-enoki-because-possible-health-risk

#recall #enoki #mushroom #listeria

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/HLkdVvOkQzE

Guan’s Mushroom Co. of Calfornia is  recalling its Enoki Mushrooms from Korea.  These may well be contaminated with Listeria.   If you eat contaminated product, you are likely to develop a severe, life=threatening gastrenteritis, and that’s particularly likely if you are very young, old, or have a weakened immune system.  Even young, healthy individuals will get high fever, headache, nausea, cramps, and diarrhea.  Pregnant women may miscarry.

This product was sold in CA, NY, and PA.

Return the product to the store for a full refund.  Questions to the company at 1-323-223-1188.

https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/guans-mushroom-co-recalls-enoki-because-possible-health-risk

#recall #enoki #mushroom #listeria

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/Y26LDEEM0Kg

Coronavirus infected individuals do not shed live virus in their tears.  Researchers at Singapore’s National University Hospital studied 17 patients with the virus.

Their tears were disease free by both viral cultures and RP-PCR genetic tests.  At the same time, their noses and throats were swarming with infectious CoVid19.

While you can’t spread virus via your eyes, you can contract disease via this route.   If viral-laden droplets from an infected person’s nose or throat get into your eyes, your tears will transport live virus into your nose, throat, and respiratory tract.  Then the game is lost.

Keep your hands spotless and away from your nose, mouth, and eyes. 

Ivan Seah Yu Jun, Danielle E. Anderson, Adrian Eng Zheng Kang, Lin-Fa Wang, Pooja Rao, Barnaby Edward Young, David Chien Lye, Rupesh Agrawal. Assessing Viral Shedding and Infectivity of Tears in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Patients. Ophthalmology, 2020; DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2020.03.026

#covid19 #coronavirus #tears 

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/Y26LDEEM0Kg

Coronavirus infected individuals do not shed live virus in their tears.  Researchers at Singapore’s National University Hospital studied 17 patients with the virus.

Their tears were disease free by both viral cultures and RP-PCR genetic tests.  At the same time, their noses and throats were swarming with infectious CoVid19.

While you can’t spread virus via your eyes, you can contract disease via this route.   If viral-laden droplets from an infected person’s nose or throat get into your eyes, your tears will transport live virus into your nose, throat, and respiratory tract.  Then the game is lost.

Keep your hands spotless and away from your nose, mouth, and eyes. 

Ivan Seah Yu Jun, Danielle E. Anderson, Adrian Eng Zheng Kang, Lin-Fa Wang, Pooja Rao, Barnaby Edward Young, David Chien Lye, Rupesh Agrawal. Assessing Viral Shedding and Infectivity of Tears in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Patients. Ophthalmology, 2020; DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2020.03.026

#covid19 #coronavirus #tears