Dr. William Walsh
Addiction Medicine
Salt Lake City, UT
19 years experience male
Locations
Weber Recovery Center
Ogden, UT
Sovegna
Salt Lake City, UT
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Doctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Addiction Medicine
Internal Medicine
Pulmonology
Licenses
United States: Utah
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A 22-year-old member asked:
Dr. William Walshanswered
Addiction Medicine 19 years experience
Chest pain/pressure: Is a serious symptom - you need to get checked right away, either by your physician or by an emergency room. Acute chest pressure that feels like a b... Read More
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A 27-year-old member asked:
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Avoid: Avoid lab animals, pets, or anything else that triggers your occupational asthma. People with occupational disease tend to do very well when they fin... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Not really: Asthma is a syndrome - a collection of symptoms that we treat as a single disease as we don't know why it occurs. Some things appear to reduce the ri... Read More
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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Asthma or fibrosis: Plicatic and abietic acids from cedar and pine resin cause direct damage to human epithelial cells and chronic exposure can lead to either occupationa... Read More
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A 37-year-old member asked:
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Yes: Yes, but allow for a long time for them to exhale.
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Falls?: I am assuming you are stating that your husband falls over, not that he is emotionally unstable. Removing throw rugs, small tables, getting adoptive ... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Tea, relax: Black tea has theophyline, a bronchodilator; rapid breathing dries the airway, worsening bronchospasm. Relaxing, and taking slow, deep breaths can o... Read More
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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Addiction Medicine 19 years experience
Black tea: Tea contains theophyline, which is a reasonable third line agent for controlling bronchospasm. However, if singulair (montelukast) is not working for... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Very rare: I have never taken care of a patient with this despite working in an ICU for 7 years at a major referral center. There not even any case series publi... Read More
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A 22-year-old member asked:
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No: There is some data that tylenol (acetaminophen) might deplete glutathione, making sepsis worse. There is no data that nsaids or Aspirin can prevent s... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Yes: You are more vulnerable to encapsulated bacteria, which are normally filtered by the spleen.
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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No: Antibiotics and other supportive measures are used to treat sepsis; nsaids and tylenol (acetaminophen) are not helpful whatsoever.
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Hours: It can lead to death or irreversible brain damage, kidney damage, etc in hours if not promptly treated.
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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Addiction Medicine 19 years experience
Aspiration?: It is not entirely clear when the pain comes on (are you breathing in immediately after eating and then having pain, or just have pleuritic pain after... Read More
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A 24-year-old member asked:
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Depends: On your ileostomy output rate. If your output rate is still high when you first go home, you may have to empty your pouch several times a day includi... Read More
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A 25-year-old member asked:
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Shower and reapply: If the stoma is mature you can bathe normally, but you will need to reapply the pouch after your shower. Talk to your ostomy nurse and see if she ha... Read More
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A 31-year-old member asked:
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Addiction Medicine 19 years experience
Yes but...: It is rare. I am presuming that you are referring to the syndrome seen in young children; dehydration and electrolyte abnormalities can lead to death... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Addiction Medicine 19 years experience
Perhaps: This is an area of controversy in medicine. Statistically, there are many children with childhood asthma who grow up to not complain of symptoms; howe... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Addiction Medicine 19 years experience
Not clear: No studies have been published on inactivation periods of the virus outside of a living organism; using similar viri survival periods were found to be... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Addiction Medicine 19 years experience
Supportive care: Supportive care and respiratory and contact isolation - there is no effective antiviral drug.
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Addiction Medicine 19 years experience
Yes: Sepsis can affect any organ... But sepsis is a syndrome rather than a specific disease. The skin can be directly affected by the infection (celluliti... Read More
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A 23-year-old member asked:
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Addiction Medicine 19 years experience
Yes, usually: Bacterial pneumonia varies by the type of bacteria as does viral pneumonia. In general, however, both present with a fever, shortness of breath, and ... Read More
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Yes...: But rarely do they cause infection unless they become dislodged and perforate the uterus. They can serve as a focus of ongoing infection if the uteru... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Addiction Medicine 19 years experience
Depends: It depends on the type of cancer, how widely spread, and how it has been treated (and responded). In general, if you have an intact immune system you... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Addiction Medicine 19 years experience
Somewhat: It is the most common cause of pneumonia, which is the 4th leading cause of death in the us... But it is still unlikely that you will have it during y... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Addiction Medicine 19 years experience
Vaccination, hygiene: Hand washing and getting the pneumonia vaccine (and getting your children vaccinated) reduce your chances of getting pneumonia. The pneumonia vaccine... Read More
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Addiction Medicine 19 years experience
Yes: We don't know all the factors that predispose people to sepsis syndrome or septic shock, but older (age >65), malnourished, immune compromised (but wi... Read More
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Addiction Medicine 19 years experience
Terminology: Bacteremia describes the presence of bacteria in the bloodstream - this may or may not make you ill (e.g. You are briefly bacteremic after brushing yo... Read More
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Reduce and avoid: Avoiding asthma triggers (not always possible) and treating the underlying inflammation present (with inhaled steroids) are the main ways to avoid an ... Read More
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No: It does increase your risk of esophageal cancer and aspiration of gastric (stomach) contents into your lungs; that said most people with a hiatal hern... Read More
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Yes ... but: For most patients the recommendations are against the use of antibiotics, as they are more likely to prolong infection and symptoms than result in a c... Read More
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Addiction Medicine 19 years experience
Not quantified: Secondary bacterial infections are common enough to make most of the lists of complications of ebv that leads to infectious mononucleosis, but i could... Read More
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If dying is ok: Sepsis should be treated with antibiotics aimed at the source of infection; often there is a need to support vital organs that are damaged by your bod... Read More
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Probably: Any immunosuppressant increases the likelihood of serious infection and any serious infection can lead to sepsis, shock and death in an immune comprom... Read More
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Yes: It is an encapsulated bacterium, and you are at higher risk.
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Unlikely: While dysphagia (difficulty swallowing) can be a herald of als, this is a very, very rare disease, and dysphagia is a common symptom. Depending on yo... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Yes: Just yes. You can.
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Yes: Depending on the cause of endocarditis. Usually fungal endocarditis won't lead to sepsis/septic shock.
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A 22-year-old member asked:
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Yep: Bacterial endotoxins ( see http://textbookofbacteriology.Net/endotoxin.Html ) and exotoxins ( http://en.Wikipedia.Org/wiki/exotoxin) are important. B... Read More
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Yes but...: It isn't likely; the bird flu seems to be less deadly than initially anticipated. Getting treated will shorten the length of your illness some, and l... Read More
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Pay attention to her: If she is ignoring your overtures, pay attention to her (instead of trying to get her attention directed to you). See what needs doing at home and do... Read More
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Location location: Septicemia means infection causing what used to be called "blood poisoning" or infection in the blood with widespread symptoms including low blood pre... Read More
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Sometimes: This is a controversial question, and my answer is on one side of the debate. People with CF should be closely followed and treated with a goal of ma... Read More
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Inhibits AChE: Organophosphates inhibit acetocholinesterase, which is responsible for recycling actetocholine. This leads to muscle overstimulation and rigid paraly... Read More
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Not bad: The swine flu 2 years ago (2009) was quite bad at first but, given the rapid development of a vaccine, infection control, and aggressive treatment, it... Read More
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Addiction Medicine 19 years experience
No, yes, yes: Influenza tends to start in the late fall, peak through the winter and taper off in the spring. Sars occurred over 1.5 years and had sporadic outbrea... Read More
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Hypoallergenic: Buy hypoallergenic ones, and wash the case once a week or so using a detergent that does not bother you.
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Rare: Genetic testing has a very low false positive rate, sweat cloride i less precise.
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Addiction Medicine 19 years experience
All of them?: There are several different kinds of albuterol and two other short acting beta agonists on the market. I would get tested to see if the allergy was t... Read More
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It may: Or you could trade one set of problems for another - even successful lung transplants eventually develop obliterative bronchiolitis after a period of ... Read More
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Thank you so much for your answer. Within my group of trachee/trachee parents, I find it a real mixed bag. Some families still treat post decann. Some kids move on to "normal" rates of childhood infec...Read More
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Although there has been some thought to moving away from dissection to more prosection (a professional anatomist performing the dissection) or virtual dissection, I will attest that there is nothing l...Read More
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This was very helpful. Thanks! I'm 32, waiting for CFRT genetic test results. Lost15 pounds, on pancrelipase, + PF tests obstructive disease. Will show this to those who question me
Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
Indiana University School of Medicine, IN
Graduated 2004MD
Residency
university of utah
Awards
AMA Foundation Leadership Award
Top Doctor, Third Place, Utah - Winter
2013
Most Influential, First Place, Utah - Winter
2013
Affiliations
ASAM
American Medical Association
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