September 3, 2024 • 28 mins
9/3/24 - Host Doug Stephan and Dr. Ken Kronhaus of Lake Cardiology (352-735-1400) discuss a renewed hyper focus on COVID-19 and vaccines, symptoms to expect from the latest variants, long-COVID in children, and symptoms in teenagers may be different than past variants, too. Additional conversation includes why healthy eating is so important in overall healthy, specifically the Mediterranean diet, what to know about heart attacks, why living in a noisy area affects your heart health, how being glued to your phone damages your health, weight loss drugs and Medicare, HPV vaccines, a rare mosquito-borne virus and what you can do to protect yourself.
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A lot of focus on COVID again, would you believe it?
So let's get started Ken with some of the things
that are available. Although the vaccine is a controversy and
some people say, you know, it's just an opportunity for
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Pfiser to sell something that may or may not be necessary,
the FDA has approved these vaccines from both Pfiser and
Maderna how are they different than the ones that we
had before.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Well, if you've been around at all talking to your
friends and family, you know that somebody's got COVID right now.
There really has been a big peak this summer. My
daughter just got over it. The patients call on the phone.
You know, doctors encourage them to call first, don't come
to the office for obvious reasons.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
And call.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And we're getting calls left and right patients having COVID.
This is a national, international issue. It's not localized to
any one specific area. Because there's new variants. And this
is just easy to understand. It's like the flu. This
is going to be a yearly item. Just like there
are new variants for the flu each year they vary.
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COVID is looking to be exactly the same, and this
summer there's new variants. And that's why so many people
are getting the COVID nineteen and the I guess for
many the good news. For some, it's annoying. But the
FDA has approved an updated COVID nineteen vaccine for people
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six months and older that targets DOUG, the new circulating variants.
That's the key. This is a different vaccine targeting new
variants that are out this summer, the mRNA COVID nineteen vaccines.
They're manufactured by Fizer and Moderna plan to have them
available in just a few days, or they may even
be there at your pharmacy already. The formula will more
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closely target dug the currently circulating variants and provide better
protection against serious consequences of COVID nineteen, including hospitalization. And Yes,
and just like the flu vaccine, this is going to
become an annual update, and talk to your doctor about
whether you think you should get one. But they are
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approved if it matters by the FDA for people six
months and older.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
All right, So what's the difference or is there a discussion?
Seemed to me that at one point there was a
focus on having the covid flu vaccine be mixed up
with regular flu so you got one shot. It took
very care of everything because covid is just another flu,
So why don't they just have a vaccine that's good
for whatever flu is may be around this year?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Well, covid, doug, Let's not get unintentionally confused. Covid is
not just another flu. Covid is another virus, and there
are zillions of different viruses, and the treatment is different.
Some of the symptoms overlap, and some of the impacts
on people are dramatic different, and the long term side
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effects are different between these two illnesses. So eventually, and
this is probably where it's going to come, they will,
I would predict, be combining these things and you'll get
an annual vaccine. But this is the way it's coming
out this year. So far, I haven't heard yet that
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that option is available, but it wouldn't surprise me if
in nazi distant future there's going to be one shot
that'll cover these and they'll be updated each year, just
like the flu vaccine.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
All right, COVID Part two. Long COVID with children this
is a different story than with adults, and one wonders
how it impacts children as they're growing their vulnerability, the
immune system all that good stuff for bad stuff. So
there are specific symptoms that parents out to know when
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they are wondering about whether their children have COVID, they
what might they be can This.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Is a report out of the Journal of the American
Medical Association. It's a rather extensive report that kids and
teens are vulnerable to long COVID just as adults are
with a set of distinct symptoms, however, showing long term
health effects. There are ten symptoms that they identified in
the study and the Journal of the American Medical Association
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out just this week in school aid children and eight
and teenagers indicate the likely presence of long COVID. Then
do we have time now or do you want to wait?
Because this is a long list, and I'd like to
mention the ten for children and the eight for teenagers.
Mom and dad, you want to be aware.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Of this, all right, So let's pause for a moment
and we'll continue with our focus on COVID. There's a
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our discussion of COVID and the symptoms for young children
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and the symptoms for teenagers, because apparently they're different. So
let's start with children first. The ten symptoms of long
covid can.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And remember what long covid is. It doesn't have the
clearest of definitions, but it's usually thought of when the
symptoms just persist for at least a couple of months,
or they come back a couple of months after the
initial infection. So here are the different symptoms that have
been reported just this week in the Journal of the
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American Medical Association Big Picture. First, ten symptoms for children,
eight distinct symptoms for teenagers, and this shows how long
COVID presents differently in children, teenagers, and adults. So first,
the ten symptoms in children, let's go over them. Trouble
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with memory or focusing, backer, neck pain, stomach pain, headache, phobias,
refusing to go to school, itchy skin or rash, trouble sleeping,
nausea or vomiting, feeling lightheaded or dizzy. Before I go
on to the adolescents, shoul we do them again or
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go right to.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
The Yeah, No, I think it would be worthwhile to
start with memory and back aches and things. Let's go
through the list one more time, just so people get
an underscore the symptoms. The ten symptoms these are for
long COVID in children.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Trouble with memory or focusing, backer, neck pain, stomach pain, headache, phobias,
refusing to go to school, itchy skin, interrash, trouble sleeping,
nausea or vomiting, feeling lightheaded or dizzy the ten for children.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
So the problem, it seems to me that is, in
terms of acknowledgment, the COVID problems this summer have been
greater than usually. Flus are flues are not much around
in the summer, and how you caution me and others
it's not just a flu, it's a virus, but it
do't It was for a while tracking the way flues.
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Did you get it in the winter and you don't
get in the summer, So why has it changed now
would be the question. A lot of people are asking
whether we want to save it for questions for doctor
Ken later on, or whether.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Now that's fine cod and then we'll go on to
the adolescents. COVID nineteen COVID DOUG especially is an indoor virus.
You don't get COVID outside. And the feeling is it's
been a really warm summer for most of us. We've
been inside in the air conditioner much much more. And
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in July fourth we all got together and we were
inside a lot, and this all seemed to start after
July fourth this summer.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, okay, that makes sense, all right. You want to
go through the list for the eight items that teenagers
have to be or we have to be concerned about.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Symptom wise, sure, change in or loss of smell and
our taste. Notice that was not in the children. Change
in or loss of smell and our taste. Body, muscle
or joint pain, daytime tiredness, fatigue after walking, back or
neck pain, trouble with memory or focusing, headache and feeling
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lightheaded or dizzy.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
All right, So those are things that you need to
keep in mind. If you're a parent, your children could
be a suffering from any number of these things. They
come to you and complain about them, then give them
a COVID test. Right, COVID test should be available. Everybody
should have them at home just for their own reference.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
They're probably long over being positive for COVID. Is just
to understand them and talk to the doctor and just
get their general nutrition up and just don't ignore it.
Rest good health and mention.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
To the doctor talking about the symptoms of COVID and
the vaccines for COVID. But maybe you don't need them
if you're eating well. It looks like your favorite. The
Mediterranean diet may be the key at least one of
the keys to staying healthier staying away from COVID. Ken
what's the.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Scoop, Doug, Great breaking news out of a very believable
medical journal pos one for all of those myself included,
who want to do things in our lifestyle to lower
our risk of getting COVID. So Yes, COVID nineteen cases
you've mentioned have surged this summer, But this new study
Doug suggested following the Mediterranean diet might spare all of
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us from infection. In this review published in the journal
POS One, Doug Indonesian Yes, Indonesian researchers. They discovered that
the healthy eating regimen, which centers on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lagoons, fish,
and heart healthy fats like olive oil and nuts, actually
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lowered the risk of COVID infection. I know you're gonna
ask me, how can this possibly be?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
And the thought how can this possibly be?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I figured you'd ask. The Mediterranean diet is known for
having a dramatic anti inflammatory effect, and it's felt that
this anti inflammatory effect of the Mediterranean diet dramatically helps
lower the risk of getting COVID.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
All right, eat well, keep your immune system strong and
you don't have to worry. I think that's what I
knock on wood. That's been my saving grace, not getting COVID.
I know you think I m out have had a
briefcase of it early on. I don't remember who knows,
but I'm there are as your pointed out. Yeah, well
you pointed out that there have been a lot of
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cases this summer, and there, Evan, I know a lot
of people who've been sick and out. Folks that I
know that work in government, people that are not much
on the farm. Because we're in the open, we don't
get you know, as you said, it's got to be
in an area. Office wise, you're in the home. It's hot,
so you're confined. But I'm out on the track far
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doing a lot of work on houses. So anyway, that's
how that thing shakes out. One of the things that
I know you don't like talking about, but I think
I have to mention it because I observed watching a
little bit of the Democratic National Convention the Republican National Convention,
they seem to ignore something that a lot of people
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care about. They don't seem to care about COVID anymore.
But listening to you and actually talking about what happened
after the Democratic Convention in Chicago, infections were rampant. As
a matter of fact, a lot of staffers got very
very sick. A lot of convention goers got very very sick.
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But there was somebody who went to the Republican National Comvision. Yeah,
I got it, but it was worth it. And so
I don't know that I think getting COVID under any
circumstances is worth it. But anyway, the viruses you pointed
out is ever present, and you wonder, you know where
there ought to be when they have their debate again.
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I know you don't like talking about the politics of it,
but I do think it's interesting because Kennedy, Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. Has been a very vocal opponent to vaccines
and stuff, and now that he endorsed Trump, so some
people are saying he's going to be the director of
Health and Human Services when Trump kids elected. Interesting reality.
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So anyway you have a comment or not, Srah, that's
whatever it will be will be. The future is not.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Ours to see, okay, Sarah, Sarah, if you have heart problems.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Perhaps consult with doctor Ken Three five two seven three
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with him and his office. Three five two seven three
five fourteen hundred. Okay, heart attacks, risk of heart attacks,
this is one that's a head scratcher. Noise. How does
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noise affect your heart well?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
In England? Is a meeting going on the European Society
of Cardiology. This three major world meetings you mentioned, the
American Heart Association, of American College of Cardiology and the
European Society of Cardiology. The third one is going on. Now.
You're gonna hear a lot of news about the heart
this week out of England. And one of the important
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studies already reported is that your heart health before and
after a heart attack DOUG is influenced by how loud
your neighborhood is.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
DOUG.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
People under fifty are more prone to heart attack if
they live in a noisy area, according to this big study,
while the prognosis for heart attacks survivors is worse if
neighborhood noise is an issue. This just brings to everyone's
attention how important peace and quiet is to your heart health.
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And it just seems like it puts added stress, which
puts added inflammation around the heart. It diminishes sleep quality,
which puts added inflammation around the circulation, which causes plaque
heart attacks and then strokes.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
So isn't that the case with life? Though? In general
don't we all have I mean, whether it's our neighborhood noisy,
or they're in traffic on our way to work, whether
it's being on a tractor on a farm, there's lots
of noise. Noise is a factor in life.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I think the key is how does it create mental
stress and how does it affect our sleep? Because I
think you know, as you point out, there's noise everywhere.
But I think how it affects those two aspects is
how it connects with increasing the risk of heart attacks
and also impairing the ability to get better after a
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heart attack.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
All right, now, here's something for people. The younger folks
listening in their twenties, especially to this program, or parents
or grandparents are people who are in their twenties all
the time that they are spending on their screen. This
is very interesting. Is a whole big deal in lots
of cities around the country, in towns where junior high
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school and high school kids are not being allowed to
bring their devices into school. They're putting them in a bag.
I heard a story yesterday of a school that's spent
thirty thousand dollars buying these bags into which children have
to put their device for the entire school. For the
six and a half seven hours they're in school every day,
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they have to put them in these pouches, and they
collect them and then they give them back to them
at the end of the day. I think is a
great Frankly, maybe that's my but you know, the effect
of having all the screen time that youngsters, teenagers, people
in their twenties have does a number on your heart
apparently right absolutely.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
This is out of the Journal of General Internal Medicine
this week. Doug, spend your youth glued to your phone, computer,
and TV, and you cut your odds of making it
to sixty according to this new study. This is data
from a study tracking the health of more than four
thousand young adults for over years. They found a higher
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odds for a heart attack for those who spent a
lot of time watching TV in their early twenties. It
seems like more screen time substitutes for more exercise and
better sleep. And this new data comes from the longstanding
coronary artery Risk and Development in young adults called the
Cardia Study, which has tracked the heart disease risk of
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thousands of adults for decades.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
A word, do the wise is efficient? Of course, people
in their teens and twenties don't think people that are
older know anything, so they'll blow this off at their
own risk, because that's really what we're doing here. You're
risking your life. It's pretty obvious, frankly what's going on.
I talk about this with regularity, and some people take
me to task for it because of my attitude toward
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some of these what I refer to as big fat
kids who are working in these retail stores as supposed
experts when it comes to using devices, and that's just it.
They sit around and they are obese, and they smell.
I mean, I don't know how much more I can
point that I can be, but it's just it's I
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don't know, I find it offensive. It's like people smoking
and blowing the smoke out second hand smoke. I just
find being around these people that smell as bad as
they do because they're so big and fat oy Anyway,
I don't know how many friends I'm making with that,
but that's really how I think about it. It's selfish,
you know, you're it really is. It's just it's selfish. Okay. Now,
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Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, this may help a lot of people. There's a
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I think if it's discovered or found that the person
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But if you've abused yourself, you have no right to
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I didn't get you into the place where you are.
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Speaker 2 (23:55):
What is that human papaloma virus? That's the virus that
cause is just about all cervical cancer in women, all right.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
So it's another virus we're talking about the all the
various viruses that are including COVID. This is another one.
What is the latest here if men have it and
what do they risk?
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Well, this is all about the vaccine that we have
made available in the last couple of decades. And it's
controversial because it's recommended for preteen and teenage women before
they're sexually active, and you know, the whole issues of
I'm not expressing an opinion one way or the other,
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but I've heard the debate of, you know, discussing sexual
activity with women who are not even thinking about it.
Is that a good idea? And that's a debate for
another time. But the point being is that this is
a hot button because it has originated as a way
to prevent a horrible cancer, cervical ca answer in women
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by bringing it up and giving it to the women
when they most effectively need it, which is as preteens
and teens. And a big debate that grew out of
that was should men be also vaccinated because they're very
much involved in spreading it. This spreads sexually, is how
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women get this fact, this virus. The virus spreads sexually,
and when the virus spreads sexually, it ends up in
the cervix of women and causes cancer. So human papouloma
virus DOUG HPV has largely been seen as a health
problem of women, given it that it causes nearly all
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cases of cervical cancer. But men also have reason now
to both fear HPV and to get vaccinated against it.
This is out of the Medical journal this week front
tears in Cellular and Infection Microbiology DOUG. Infection with high
risk HPV strains may interfere with a man's fertility, that's
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the headline this week. Men infected with these high risk strains,
they show increased sperm death due to oxidative stress and
a weakened local immune response to the eurogenital tract.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
So men.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Preteen teenage boys need to talk to the pediatrician also
about getting vaccinated. Even adults who've made it out of
the pediatric office without getting vaccinated need to talk to
their interness, their family physician about whether they, as men,
need to get this vaccine against HPV so it won't
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impair their fertility all right.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Now, Viruses, viruses, viruses. Here in New England, there are
a lot of people who the news media is scaring
and maybe this is something to be scared about. There's
a rare mosquito born virus that has killed one resident
of New Hampshire. What do they call it? Equine? It
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used to be equine encephalitis. I don't know what they're
it's East Eastern equine encephalitis eee. It has been this
has been a dry summer for some, but it's been
moist for others. This is the first time anybody's died
of it, but it's the fifth case this year here
in the northeast. So what is this is? Because of
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its being its peak mosquito season, These viruses are dangerous
for sure, but you wonder if one person has died,
how much more of it is around.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Yeah, the key is just getting rid of standing water
and being very careful when you're out at sunset. That's
when you're really when you're really vulnerable. In fact, doctor
Fauci was in the hospital just in the last week
or two for a week because of he had one
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of these viral infections from a mosquito. And unfortunately, prevention
is really the best way, and fortunately not everybody reacts.
You know, he had Doc Fauchi had the West Nile
virus and only a small fraction respond so severely that
need to be hospitalized. Fortunately, so keep the immune system up,
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get rid of the standing water and prevent prevent print.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
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you will not be disappointed in the conversation this week.
A lot of focus on COVID again, would you believe it?
So let's get started Ken with some of the things
that are available. Although the vaccine is a controversy and
some people say, you know, it's just an opportunity for
(01:05):
Pfiser to sell something that may or may not be necessary,
the FDA has approved these vaccines from both Pfiser and
Maderna how are they different than the ones that we
had before.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Well, if you've been around at all talking to your
friends and family, you know that somebody's got COVID right now.
There really has been a big peak this summer. My
daughter just got over it. The patients call on the phone.
You know, doctors encourage them to call first, don't come
to the office for obvious reasons.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
And call.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And we're getting calls left and right patients having COVID.
This is a national, international issue. It's not localized to
any one specific area. Because there's new variants. And this
is just easy to understand. It's like the flu. This
is going to be a yearly item. Just like there
are new variants for the flu each year they vary.
(02:05):
COVID is looking to be exactly the same, and this
summer there's new variants. And that's why so many people
are getting the COVID nineteen and the I guess for
many the good news. For some, it's annoying. But the
FDA has approved an updated COVID nineteen vaccine for people
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six months and older that targets DOUG, the new circulating variants.
That's the key. This is a different vaccine targeting new
variants that are out this summer, the mRNA COVID nineteen vaccines.
They're manufactured by Fizer and Moderna plan to have them
available in just a few days, or they may even
be there at your pharmacy already. The formula will more
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closely target dug the currently circulating variants and provide better
protection against serious consequences of COVID nineteen, including hospitalization. And Yes,
and just like the flu vaccine, this is going to
become an annual update, and talk to your doctor about
whether you think you should get one. But they are
(03:10):
approved if it matters by the FDA for people six
months and older.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
All right, So what's the difference or is there a discussion?
Seemed to me that at one point there was a
focus on having the covid flu vaccine be mixed up
with regular flu so you got one shot. It took
very care of everything because covid is just another flu,
So why don't they just have a vaccine that's good
for whatever flu is may be around this year?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Well, covid, doug, Let's not get unintentionally confused. Covid is
not just another flu. Covid is another virus, and there
are zillions of different viruses, and the treatment is different.
Some of the symptoms overlap, and some of the impacts
on people are dramatic different, and the long term side
(04:02):
effects are different between these two illnesses. So eventually, and
this is probably where it's going to come, they will,
I would predict, be combining these things and you'll get
an annual vaccine. But this is the way it's coming
out this year. So far, I haven't heard yet that
(04:24):
that option is available, but it wouldn't surprise me if
in nazi distant future there's going to be one shot
that'll cover these and they'll be updated each year, just
like the flu vaccine.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
All right, COVID Part two. Long COVID with children this
is a different story than with adults, and one wonders
how it impacts children as they're growing their vulnerability, the
immune system all that good stuff for bad stuff. So
there are specific symptoms that parents out to know when
(04:56):
they are wondering about whether their children have COVID, they
what might they be can This.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Is a report out of the Journal of the American
Medical Association. It's a rather extensive report that kids and
teens are vulnerable to long COVID just as adults are
with a set of distinct symptoms, however, showing long term
health effects. There are ten symptoms that they identified in
the study and the Journal of the American Medical Association
(05:24):
out just this week in school aid children and eight
and teenagers indicate the likely presence of long COVID. Then
do we have time now or do you want to wait?
Because this is a long list, and I'd like to
mention the ten for children and the eight for teenagers.
Mom and dad, you want to be aware.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Of this, all right, So let's pause for a moment
and we'll continue with our focus on COVID. There's a
lot of information this week. It Ken wants to pass along.
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(07:22):
and the symptoms for teenagers, because apparently they're different. So
let's start with children first. The ten symptoms of long
covid can.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And remember what long covid is. It doesn't have the
clearest of definitions, but it's usually thought of when the
symptoms just persist for at least a couple of months,
or they come back a couple of months after the
initial infection. So here are the different symptoms that have
been reported just this week in the Journal of the
(07:51):
American Medical Association Big Picture. First, ten symptoms for children,
eight distinct symptoms for teenagers, and this shows how long
COVID presents differently in children, teenagers, and adults. So first,
the ten symptoms in children, let's go over them. Trouble
(08:11):
with memory or focusing, backer, neck pain, stomach pain, headache, phobias,
refusing to go to school, itchy skin or rash, trouble sleeping,
nausea or vomiting, feeling lightheaded or dizzy. Before I go
on to the adolescents, shoul we do them again or
(08:32):
go right to.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
The Yeah, No, I think it would be worthwhile to
start with memory and back aches and things. Let's go
through the list one more time, just so people get
an underscore the symptoms. The ten symptoms these are for
long COVID in children.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Trouble with memory or focusing, backer, neck pain, stomach pain, headache, phobias,
refusing to go to school, itchy skin, interrash, trouble sleeping,
nausea or vomiting, feeling lightheaded or dizzy the ten for children.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
So the problem, it seems to me that is, in
terms of acknowledgment, the COVID problems this summer have been
greater than usually. Flus are flues are not much around
in the summer, and how you caution me and others
it's not just a flu, it's a virus, but it
do't It was for a while tracking the way flues.
(09:32):
Did you get it in the winter and you don't
get in the summer, So why has it changed now
would be the question. A lot of people are asking
whether we want to save it for questions for doctor
Ken later on, or whether.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Now that's fine cod and then we'll go on to
the adolescents. COVID nineteen COVID DOUG especially is an indoor virus.
You don't get COVID outside. And the feeling is it's
been a really warm summer for most of us. We've
been inside in the air conditioner much much more. And
(10:02):
in July fourth we all got together and we were
inside a lot, and this all seemed to start after
July fourth this summer.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, okay, that makes sense, all right. You want to
go through the list for the eight items that teenagers
have to be or we have to be concerned about.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Symptom wise, sure, change in or loss of smell and
our taste. Notice that was not in the children. Change
in or loss of smell and our taste. Body, muscle
or joint pain, daytime tiredness, fatigue after walking, back or
neck pain, trouble with memory or focusing, headache and feeling
(10:43):
lightheaded or dizzy.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
All right, So those are things that you need to
keep in mind. If you're a parent, your children could
be a suffering from any number of these things. They
come to you and complain about them, then give them
a COVID test. Right, COVID test should be available. Everybody
should have them at home just for their own reference.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
They're probably long over being positive for COVID. Is just
to understand them and talk to the doctor and just
get their general nutrition up and just don't ignore it.
Rest good health and mention.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
To the doctor talking about the symptoms of COVID and
the vaccines for COVID. But maybe you don't need them
if you're eating well. It looks like your favorite. The
Mediterranean diet may be the key at least one of
the keys to staying healthier staying away from COVID. Ken
what's the.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Scoop, Doug, Great breaking news out of a very believable
medical journal pos one for all of those myself included,
who want to do things in our lifestyle to lower
our risk of getting COVID. So Yes, COVID nineteen cases
you've mentioned have surged this summer, But this new study
Doug suggested following the Mediterranean diet might spare all of
(11:56):
us from infection. In this review published in the journal
POS One, Doug Indonesian Yes, Indonesian researchers. They discovered that
the healthy eating regimen, which centers on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lagoons, fish,
and heart healthy fats like olive oil and nuts, actually
(12:16):
lowered the risk of COVID infection. I know you're gonna
ask me, how can this possibly be?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
And the thought how can this possibly be?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I figured you'd ask. The Mediterranean diet is known for
having a dramatic anti inflammatory effect, and it's felt that
this anti inflammatory effect of the Mediterranean diet dramatically helps
lower the risk of getting COVID.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
All right, eat well, keep your immune system strong and
you don't have to worry. I think that's what I
knock on wood. That's been my saving grace, not getting COVID.
I know you think I m out have had a
briefcase of it early on. I don't remember who knows,
but I'm there are as your pointed out. Yeah, well
you pointed out that there have been a lot of
(13:05):
cases this summer, and there, Evan, I know a lot
of people who've been sick and out. Folks that I
know that work in government, people that are not much
on the farm. Because we're in the open, we don't
get you know, as you said, it's got to be
in an area. Office wise, you're in the home. It's hot,
so you're confined. But I'm out on the track far
(13:25):
doing a lot of work on houses. So anyway, that's
how that thing shakes out. One of the things that
I know you don't like talking about, but I think
I have to mention it because I observed watching a
little bit of the Democratic National Convention the Republican National Convention,
they seem to ignore something that a lot of people
(13:48):
care about. They don't seem to care about COVID anymore.
But listening to you and actually talking about what happened
after the Democratic Convention in Chicago, infections were rampant. As
a matter of fact, a lot of staffers got very
very sick. A lot of convention goers got very very sick.
(14:12):
But there was somebody who went to the Republican National Comvision. Yeah,
I got it, but it was worth it. And so
I don't know that I think getting COVID under any
circumstances is worth it. But anyway, the viruses you pointed
out is ever present, and you wonder, you know where
there ought to be when they have their debate again.
(14:33):
I know you don't like talking about the politics of it,
but I do think it's interesting because Kennedy, Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. Has been a very vocal opponent to vaccines
and stuff, and now that he endorsed Trump, so some
people are saying he's going to be the director of
Health and Human Services when Trump kids elected. Interesting reality.
(14:57):
So anyway you have a comment or not, Srah, that's
whatever it will be will be. The future is not.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Ours to see, okay, Sarah, Sarah, if you have heart problems.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Perhaps consult with doctor Ken Three five two seven three
five fourteen hundred is the number to be in touch
with him and his office. Three five two seven three
five fourteen hundred. Okay, heart attacks, risk of heart attacks,
this is one that's a head scratcher. Noise. How does
(15:42):
noise affect your heart well?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
In England? Is a meeting going on the European Society
of Cardiology. This three major world meetings you mentioned, the
American Heart Association, of American College of Cardiology and the
European Society of Cardiology. The third one is going on. Now.
You're gonna hear a lot of news about the heart
this week out of England. And one of the important
(16:06):
studies already reported is that your heart health before and
after a heart attack DOUG is influenced by how loud
your neighborhood is.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
DOUG.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
People under fifty are more prone to heart attack if
they live in a noisy area, according to this big study,
while the prognosis for heart attacks survivors is worse if
neighborhood noise is an issue. This just brings to everyone's
attention how important peace and quiet is to your heart health.
(16:38):
And it just seems like it puts added stress, which
puts added inflammation around the heart. It diminishes sleep quality,
which puts added inflammation around the circulation, which causes plaque
heart attacks and then strokes.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
So isn't that the case with life? Though? In general
don't we all have I mean, whether it's our neighborhood noisy,
or they're in traffic on our way to work, whether
it's being on a tractor on a farm, there's lots
of noise. Noise is a factor in life.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I think the key is how does it create mental
stress and how does it affect our sleep? Because I
think you know, as you point out, there's noise everywhere.
But I think how it affects those two aspects is
how it connects with increasing the risk of heart attacks
and also impairing the ability to get better after a
(17:33):
heart attack.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
All right, now, here's something for people. The younger folks
listening in their twenties, especially to this program, or parents
or grandparents are people who are in their twenties all
the time that they are spending on their screen. This
is very interesting. Is a whole big deal in lots
of cities around the country, in towns where junior high
(17:58):
school and high school kids are not being allowed to
bring their devices into school. They're putting them in a bag.
I heard a story yesterday of a school that's spent
thirty thousand dollars buying these bags into which children have
to put their device for the entire school. For the
six and a half seven hours they're in school every day,
(18:19):
they have to put them in these pouches, and they
collect them and then they give them back to them
at the end of the day. I think is a
great Frankly, maybe that's my but you know, the effect
of having all the screen time that youngsters, teenagers, people
in their twenties have does a number on your heart
apparently right absolutely.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
This is out of the Journal of General Internal Medicine
this week. Doug, spend your youth glued to your phone, computer,
and TV, and you cut your odds of making it
to sixty according to this new study. This is data
from a study tracking the health of more than four
thousand young adults for over years. They found a higher
(19:02):
odds for a heart attack for those who spent a
lot of time watching TV in their early twenties. It
seems like more screen time substitutes for more exercise and
better sleep. And this new data comes from the longstanding
coronary artery Risk and Development in young adults called the
Cardia Study, which has tracked the heart disease risk of
(19:24):
thousands of adults for decades.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
A word, do the wise is efficient? Of course, people
in their teens and twenties don't think people that are
older know anything, so they'll blow this off at their
own risk, because that's really what we're doing here. You're
risking your life. It's pretty obvious, frankly what's going on.
I talk about this with regularity, and some people take
me to task for it because of my attitude toward
(19:48):
some of these what I refer to as big fat
kids who are working in these retail stores as supposed
experts when it comes to using devices, and that's just it.
They sit around and they are obese, and they smell.
I mean, I don't know how much more I can
point that I can be, but it's just it's I
(20:12):
don't know, I find it offensive. It's like people smoking
and blowing the smoke out second hand smoke. I just
find being around these people that smell as bad as
they do because they're so big and fat oy Anyway,
I don't know how many friends I'm making with that,
but that's really how I think about it. It's selfish,
you know, you're it really is. It's just it's selfish. Okay. Now,
(20:35):
so we're talking about being heavy. There's a new Medicare
rule that would help you if you want to use
we GOB. How's that working, Ken.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, this may help a lot of people. There's a
new Medicare rules that could make three point six million
Americans or even more DOUG eligible for treatment with the
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ozempic in the diabetes form, but GLP desh one agonis
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effective for weight loss. Under the new rules, the government
will pay for AGOV treatment if a person with a
high BMI also has heart disease. We're still waiting for
them to define the word heart disease, and this will
(21:32):
really determine how many people become eligible for payment.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I think that's outrageous, frankly. If people abuse themselves as
they do, many people who are on a GOOVI or
ozempic or any of these other weight loss drugs. They've
made a choice in most cases, not all of them.
I think if it's discovered or found that the person
is obese through no fault of his or her own,
(21:59):
the government and insurance companies ought to take care of it.
But if you've abused yourself, you have no right to
have me pay for you. Does that sound cruel? Maybe
it is, but it's just I feel very strongly about it.
I didn't get you into the place where you are.
You made your choice, your decision. So and with that
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Speaker 2 (23:55):
What is that human papaloma virus? That's the virus that
cause is just about all cervical cancer in women, all right.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
So it's another virus we're talking about the all the
various viruses that are including COVID. This is another one.
What is the latest here if men have it and
what do they risk?
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Well, this is all about the vaccine that we have
made available in the last couple of decades. And it's
controversial because it's recommended for preteen and teenage women before
they're sexually active, and you know, the whole issues of
I'm not expressing an opinion one way or the other,
(24:40):
but I've heard the debate of, you know, discussing sexual
activity with women who are not even thinking about it.
Is that a good idea? And that's a debate for
another time. But the point being is that this is
a hot button because it has originated as a way
to prevent a horrible cancer, cervical ca answer in women
(25:02):
by bringing it up and giving it to the women
when they most effectively need it, which is as preteens
and teens. And a big debate that grew out of
that was should men be also vaccinated because they're very
much involved in spreading it. This spreads sexually, is how
(25:25):
women get this fact, this virus. The virus spreads sexually,
and when the virus spreads sexually, it ends up in
the cervix of women and causes cancer. So human papouloma
virus DOUG HPV has largely been seen as a health
problem of women, given it that it causes nearly all
(25:49):
cases of cervical cancer. But men also have reason now
to both fear HPV and to get vaccinated against it.
This is out of the Medical journal this week front
tears in Cellular and Infection Microbiology DOUG. Infection with high
risk HPV strains may interfere with a man's fertility, that's
(26:10):
the headline this week. Men infected with these high risk strains,
they show increased sperm death due to oxidative stress and
a weakened local immune response to the eurogenital tract.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
So men.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Preteen teenage boys need to talk to the pediatrician also
about getting vaccinated. Even adults who've made it out of
the pediatric office without getting vaccinated need to talk to
their interness, their family physician about whether they, as men,
need to get this vaccine against HPV so it won't
(26:46):
impair their fertility all right.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Now, Viruses, viruses, viruses. Here in New England, there are
a lot of people who the news media is scaring
and maybe this is something to be scared about. There's
a rare mosquito born virus that has killed one resident
of New Hampshire. What do they call it? Equine? It
(27:11):
used to be equine encephalitis. I don't know what they're
it's East Eastern equine encephalitis eee. It has been this
has been a dry summer for some, but it's been
moist for others. This is the first time anybody's died
of it, but it's the fifth case this year here
in the northeast. So what is this is? Because of
(27:34):
its being its peak mosquito season, These viruses are dangerous
for sure, but you wonder if one person has died,
how much more of it is around.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Yeah, the key is just getting rid of standing water
and being very careful when you're out at sunset. That's
when you're really when you're really vulnerable. In fact, doctor
Fauci was in the hospital just in the last week
or two for a week because of he had one
(28:07):
of these viral infections from a mosquito. And unfortunately, prevention
is really the best way, and fortunately not everybody reacts.
You know, he had Doc Fauchi had the West Nile
virus and only a small fraction respond so severely that
need to be hospitalized. Fortunately, so keep the immune system up,
(28:28):
get rid of the standing water and prevent prevent print.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
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