Dr. Howard Smith Reports

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If you plan to use weed for significant psychological issues, think again!  It simply doesn't not help manage these problems.

A mammoth Australian meta-analysis just published in the The Lancet Psychiatry looked at 83 studies in which marijuana was used to treat depression, anxiety, ADHD, PTSD, psychosis,  and Tourette syndrome.  

Weed did help with minor situational anxiety due to short-lived illness issues, but THC with or without CBD offered no relief for the other disorders studied.  In some cases, its use exacerbated the symptoms.

If you or a family member has serious psychiatric problems, seek help from qualified psychiatrists or psychologists.  Don’t self medicate with recreational drugs.

Nicola Black, Emily Stockings, Gabrielle Campbell, Lucy T Tran, Dino Zagic, Wayne D Hall, Michael Farrell, Louisa Degenhardt. Cannabinoids for the treatment of mental disorders and symptoms of mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet Psychiatry, 2019; DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(19)30401-8

#Depression #psychosis #ADHD #PTSD #marijuana

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/o_fpt8jt3ZQ

If you plan to use weed for significant psychological issues, think again!  It simply doesn't not help manage these problems.

A mammoth Australian meta-analysis just published in the The Lancet Psychiatry looked at 83 studies in which marijuana was used to treat depression, anxiety, ADHD, PTSD, psychosis,  and Tourette syndrome.  

Weed did help with minor situational anxiety due to short-lived illness issues, but THC with or without CBD offered no relief for the other disorders studied.  In some cases, its use exacerbated the symptoms.

If you or a family member has serious psychiatric problems, seek help from qualified psychiatrists or psychologists.  Don’t self medicate with recreational drugs.

Nicola Black, Emily Stockings, Gabrielle Campbell, Lucy T Tran, Dino Zagic, Wayne D Hall, Michael Farrell, Louisa Degenhardt. Cannabinoids for the treatment of mental disorders and symptoms of mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet Psychiatry, 2019; DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(19)30401-8

#Depression #psychosis #ADHD #PTSD #marijuana

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His tooth brushing, flossing, and tongue brushing seemed in vain, as young Don’s breath became ever more smelly and distasteful.  One night, his attempt to blow out a candle was met with a stream of fire from his mouth and a powerful explosion.

His flame-throwing belches became so dangerous that he couldn’t go near an open flame.  Analyzing the gas in his stomach, his doctors found high concentrations of methane.  Their work-up revealed a bowel obstruction that allowed his partially digested meals to ferment and trigger gas production.

Methane gas is commonly produced in the lower bowel, and flatulence ignition or fart lighting has been a mainstay of frat pledging.  By the way, it triggers a butt burn that can be devastating.

https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/medicine-history-cases-weird-sailor-exploding-teeth-doctor/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fart_lighting

#Methane #flatus #fart

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/lMTY63dVejY

His tooth brushing, flossing, and tongue brushing seemed in vain, as young Don’s breath became ever more smelly and distasteful.  One night, his attempt to blow out a candle was met with a stream of fire from his mouth and a powerful explosion.

His flame-throwing belches became so dangerous that he couldn’t go near an open flame.  Analyzing the gas in his stomach, his doctors found high concentrations of methane.  Their work-up revealed a bowel obstruction that allowed his partially digested meals to ferment and trigger gas production.

Methane gas is commonly produced in the lower bowel, and flatulence ignition or fart lighting has been a mainstay of frat pledging.  By the way, it triggers a butt burn that can be devastating.

https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/medicine-history-cases-weird-sailor-exploding-teeth-doctor/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fart_lighting

#Methane #flatus #fart

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Jon and his college pals were celebrating the end of exams with endless parasol-topped drinks at the Szechuan Star Restaurant.  His buddy Bill screams, “Jon....bet you can’t down this quart of soy sauce.

Jon wins the bet but nearly loses his life.  He starts to seize and becomes unresponsive.  At the ER, the anti-seizure medicines work but he is in a coma.  Blood testing shows his blood sodium to be the highest ever recorded.

He only recovers after a massive infusion of 6 liters of sugar water into his gastrointestinal tract.  He never wants to see soy sauce again.  Soy sauce is salty and the quart he chugged contains one-third pound of salt.

https://www.jem-journal.com/article/S0736-4679%2813%2900202-3/fulltext

#soysauce #salt #seizures

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/6GAM_yWOM6s

Jon and his college pals were celebrating the end of exams with endless parasol-topped drinks at the Szechuan Star Restaurant.  His buddy Bill screams, “Jon....bet you can’t down this quart of soy sauce.

Jon wins the bet but nearly loses his life.  He starts to seize and becomes unresponsive.  At the ER, the anti-seizure medicines work but he is in a coma.  Blood testing shows his blood sodium to be the highest ever recorded.

He only recovers after a massive infusion of 6 liters of sugar water into his gastrointestinal tract.  He never wants to see soy sauce again.  Soy sauce is salty and the quart he chugged contains one-third pound of salt.

https://www.jem-journal.com/article/S0736-4679%2813%2900202-3/fulltext

#soysauce #salt #seizures

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/rNQ3yz7Gdc4

Betty was rushing to dress for her New Year’s Eve date.  She picked up an earring, but her asthma suddenly flared.  After rushing to extract her inhaler from a handbag, she deeply inhaled her medicine.

She felt a throat scrape followed by a cough deeper than she usually experiences after medication inhalation.  Betty’s cough persisted and became bloody.  Her breathing became more difficult.

Her date rushed her to the hospital where a chest x-ray revealed an object blocking her right lung’s airway.   Then on to the operating room where surgeons extracted an earring from that right lung. 

The earring had fallen into the inhaler as Betty fumbled through her purse.  Lesson learned: she never again left the cap off her inhaler.

https://casereports.bmj.com/content/2015/bcr-2014-207398

#Foreignbody #asthmainhaler

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/rNQ3yz7Gdc4

Betty was rushing to dress for her New Year’s Eve date.  She picked up an earring, but her asthma suddenly flared.  After rushing to extract her inhaler from a handbag, she deeply inhaled her medicine.

She felt a throat scrape followed by a cough deeper than she usually experiences after medication inhalation.  Betty’s cough persisted and became bloody.  Her breathing became more difficult.

Her date rushed her to the hospital where a chest x-ray revealed an object blocking her right lung’s airway.   Then on to the operating room where surgeons extracted an earring from that right lung. 

The earring had fallen into the inhaler as Betty fumbled through her purse.  Lesson learned: she never again left the cap off her inhaler.

https://casereports.bmj.com/content/2015/bcr-2014-207398

#Foreignbody #asthmainhaler

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/9cFQ6A3girI

Regular exercise helps prevent most women’s cancers and many gastrointestinal malignancies.   It improves the results of all forms of treatment for these dread diseases and also for prostate cancer.  Problem is that fewer than half of cancer patients exercise.

Why?  Studies say it’s lack of encouragement by doctors and nurses.  Currently only 21% of oncologists and 9% of nurses cajole their patients to pursue the 3 times weekly aerobic and/or resistance workouts that will turbocharge their systems to eradicate cancer cells and lift their spirits.

If you are a cancer patient or don’t want to be one, pound on your docs and nurses to suggest or approve exercise tailored to your body’s needs.  

Kathryn H. Schmitz, Anna M. Campbell, Martijn M. Stuiver, etal.  Exercise is medicine in oncology: Engaging clinicians to help patients move through cancer.  CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.  https://doi.org/10.3322/caac.21579.

#Exercise #cancer #PT #mood

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/9cFQ6A3girI

Regular exercise helps prevent most women’s cancers and many gastrointestinal malignancies.   It improves the results of all forms of treatment for these dread diseases and also for prostate cancer.  Problem is that fewer than half of cancer patients exercise.

Why?  Studies say it’s lack of encouragement by doctors and nurses.  Currently only 21% of oncologists and 9% of nurses cajole their patients to pursue the 3 times weekly aerobic and/or resistance workouts that will turbocharge their systems to eradicate cancer cells and lift their spirits.

If you are a cancer patient or don’t want to be one, pound on your docs and nurses to suggest or approve exercise tailored to your body’s needs.  

Kathryn H. Schmitz, Anna M. Campbell, Martijn M. Stuiver, etal.  Exercise is medicine in oncology: Engaging clinicians to help patients move through cancer.  CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.  https://doi.org/10.3322/caac.21579.

#Exercise #cancer #PT #mood