Dr. Simon Tsiouris
Infectious Disease
New York, NY
25 years experience male
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Aetna Life Insurance Company
CIGNA Health Care
Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield
UnitedHealthcare
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SpecialtiesDoctors 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.
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.
Infectious Disease
Languages spoken
English, Greek
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209 Answers
14 Agrees
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A 28-year-old male asked:
Dr. Simon Tsiourisanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Feeling cold: A sensation of feeling cold accompanied by uncontrollable shaking of the extremities, body and/or teeth often associated with the onset of a fever due... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Contorversial: Cd57 testing is a controversial way of trying to determine if someone has lyme disease. It is not widely accepted as accurate and most clinicians do ... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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Days: Typically, uncomplicated cellulitis will start to improve in just a few days after appropriate antibiotic therapy has been initiated.
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A 29-year-old member asked:
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Fevers & belly pain: Fmf is a genetically inherited disease which leads to fevers and, often, abdominal pain that can be mistaken for an infection but is not. Symptoms us... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
No: You should respect expiration dates on medications and not use them after they have expired.
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A 44-year-old member asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Kills them: Most of the antibiotics used to treat TB work by blocking the internal molecular machinery of the bacteria thereby leading to bacterial death.
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A 49-year-old male asked:
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Yes: Only the city of vientiane does not have malaria. The rest of laos does.
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A 47-year-old member asked:
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Steroid: Cloderm is topical clocortolone, a steroid. It is used to treat some steroid responsive skin conditions.
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Hand hygiene: Good hand hygiene (washing hands with soap and water, using alcohol based hand sanitizers) and avoiding close contact until treatment is complete can ... Read More
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A 30-year-old member asked:
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Daily: Rheumatic fever still exists and occurs worldwide though rates are much lower in the developed world.
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A 47-year-old member asked:
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Yes: If by nec you mean necrotizing enterocolitis. Treatment usually involves stopping feedings, relieving gas in the intestines by use of a small suction ... Read More
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A 44-year-old member asked:
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1-2 weeks: The rash that occurs with shingles usually lasts about 7-10 days before all the lesions dry up and begin to fall off. Lifelong scarring occasionally ... Read More
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A 45-year-old member asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Yes: Dramamine (dimenhydrinate) is a histamine antagonist designed to counter some of the ill effects of motion in vehicles to which some persons are prone... Read More
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A 43-year-old member asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Yes: Multi-drug resistant TB is resistant, by definition, to two drugs: Isoniazid and rifampin. There are many other drugs available which can be used in ... Read More
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A 29-year-old member asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Yes: Gastrointestinal side effects are common with erythromycin. If the symptoms persist, especially after you have stopped using erythromycin, then you s... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Yes: There are standard therapies that have been used for many years and newer drugs which offer the promise of higher success rates with fewer side effect... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
NEC: Not elsewhere classified. A term attached to certain diagnosis codes.
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A 45-year-old female asked:
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About a week: Rotavirus can cause vomiting, diarrhea, fevers and abdominal pain which usually last from 3-8 days.
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A 45-year-old member asked:
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Usually sex: Unprotected vaginal/anal sexual intercourse with someone infected with HIV and sharing of needles for intravenous drug abuse with someone infected wit... Read More
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A 32-year-old member asked:
Dr. Simon Tsiourisanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Controversial: Cd57 is shorthand for a certain subset of white blood cells. Cd57 testing is a controversial way of trying to determine if someone has lyme disease. ... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Many: Common ones include legionella, mycoplasma, chlamydia species (not the types which cause sexually transmitted infections). Many viruses can also caus... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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Internally: The antibiotics used to treat yersinia in general act to turn off internal molecular machinery of the bacteria such as the proteins used to replicate ... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Yes: Zovirax ointment (acyclovir 5%) can be applied to cold sores on the lips caused by herpes simplex virus up to 5 times per day for 4 days.
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A 46-year-old member asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Toipical anesthetic: Lidocaine jelly is a topical anesthetic used to numb the skin or to dull pain in the skin.
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Depends: If you are immune compromised or a child, a bump greater than 5mm in diameter is significant. Otherwise, a bump greater than 10mm in diameter is cons... Read More
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A 45-year-old member asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Yes: Viracept (nelfinavir) is an effective protease inhibitor used in combination with other anti-viral medications to treat hiv. It is not commonly used ... Read More
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A 46-year-old member asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Complicated: If by pcv you mean pneumococcal conjugate vaccine 13, then: in children under 24 months of age a series of 3-4 doses is recommended starting no soone... Read More
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A 47-year-old member asked:
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Jerking: Myoclonus refers to unpredictable and uncontrollable jerking of muscles. Any muscle or muscle group can be involved.
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A 24-year-old member asked:
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Weeks: The latest generation of antibody/antigen blood tests for HIV can turn positive within 3-4 weeks after infection has occurred.
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A 44-year-old member asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Yes: The 2011-2012 seasonal influenza vaccine was designed to protect against influenza a h3n2, influenza b and the h1n1 strain of influenza. Each year, t... Read More
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A 47-year-old member asked:
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Wrong drug?: Bacitracin is a topical antibiotic, usually a cream, ointment or gel. It is not formulated as a tablet.
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Gastrointestinal: The most common side effects people taking a z-pak experience are nausea and diarrhea. As many as 10% of people who take it get these symptoms. Seco... Read More
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A 30-year-old member asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Yes: Fever is common in rubella, especially in children. It is usually mild and lasts only a couple of days.
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A 31-year-old member asked:
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Prokaryotic: Legionella is a bacterium without a nucleus and is therefore a prokaryote.
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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Very rare: A very small minority of people have a mutation which makes it much more difficult for the virus to gain entry into the cell and establish infection. ... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Some similarities: They have some common characteristics in that they are both viruses which can be both sexually transmitted and transmitted via the blood borne route (... Read More
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A 26-year-old male asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Depends: Depending on what you are taking the Doxycycline for, missing a day may or may not be a big deal. You should make up the lost day and talk to your doc... Read More
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A 39-year-old member asked:
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Different antibiotic: Azithromycin and Amoxicillin are used to treat many common infections and are both effective for many of the same infections. Azithromycin is from a ... Read More
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A 51-year-old female asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
No: The flu is caused by a virus (the influenza virus) which is not susceptible to anti-bacterial antibiotics such as cefdinir.
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A 24-year-old male asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Yes: Acute anti retrovirus syndrome usually occurs two to four weeks after exposure to and infection with HIV and often presents with fever, sore throat, r... Read More
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A 39-year-old member asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
See doctor: Your doctor can perform either a skin test or a blood test to see if you have ever been infected with tuberculosis in the past and a chest x-ray and o... Read More
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Yes: The full list of side effects of Ribavirin is very long. A few of the most common side effects are anemia, fever and emotional lability.
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A 92-year-old member asked:
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Big difference: Chronic hepatitis c infection can be asymptomatic for decades and then lead to liver failure and/or liver cancer. If detected early, there is treatme... Read More
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A 27-year-old member asked:
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Doubtful: It is unlikely that the ingredients of hydroxycut would cause boils.
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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Maybe not: Although Azithromycin is rapidly absorbed after it is ingested, 30 minutes may not have been long enough to allow enough of the drug to be absorbed fo... Read More
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A 30-year-old member asked:
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Few other ways: In the United States, unprotected sex with HIV infected individuals or sharing needles with HIV infected individuals are the two main modes of transmi... Read More
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A 41-year-old member asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Probably not: Ornithosis (a.K.A. Psittacosis) usually causes fever associated with malaise, headache and cough. Sneezing alone would not be suggestive of this diag... Read More
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A 43-year-old member asked:
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Yes: But you still need to come in contact with a cat. If a cat licks a break in your skin, then bartonella, the bacteria that causes cat scratch disease,... Read More
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A 45-year-old member asked:
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Infectious Disease 25 years experience
2-4 weeks: After the initial application of a topical agent to kill scabies, symptomatic relief usually occurs within two to four weeks. If symptoms persist pas... Read More
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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None: Unfortunately, there are no known effective treatments for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
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Mar 30, 2015
Dr. Tsiouris is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Mar 31, 2015
Dr. Tsiouris is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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thank you so much. my husband went to dr and was tested but no diagnosis until monday or tuesday of jnext week. he has been out on antibotic
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