Dr. Malini Shah
Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
CA
34 years experience female
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I graduated from med school in 1989 from MS University in India, was awarded gold medal in surgery , following which I got trained and licensed in Ob Gyn in same university. Then I migrated to US got trained and board certified in Medicine and pediatrics as a part of Med- Peds program at LAC USC and have been working under USC ED in urgent care. I also enjoy holistic medicine and am recently learning Chinese Medicine at local Chinese acupuncture school. I love what I do and thrive to help more no of patients to the best of my ability.
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
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A 41-year-old female asked:
Dr. Malini Shahanswered
Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Fatigue : Need more information, location, duration, fever?. The bumps sound like lymph nodes better be seen by a physician. Need to do breast exam as well. So... Read More
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A 22-year-old female asked:
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Costchondritis: If your pain is sharp in anterior chest on deep breathing , coughing or sneezing it is inflammation of costchondral junction, joint between rib and br... Read More
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A 16-year-old male asked:
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Eccymosis: Bruise or ecchymosis is bleed under the skin due to trauma leading to capillary rupture. Just banging against something can do it. Takes about 3 weeks... Read More
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A 18-year-old female asked:
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Constipation: Small sized stool round in shape means it has been sitting in the colon for a long time and all the water is absorbed and has formed pebbles. Diarrhea... Read More
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A 20-year-old male asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Constipation: You really need to change diet, avoid meat and white flour , eat more vegetables , fruits with fibers, drink plenty of water, prunes etc. Take Otc lax... Read More
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A female asked:
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IBS: Sounds like you have inflammatory bowel syndrome. Please refer to my answer to constipation. Don't give up keep treating constipation with natural fib... Read More
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A 32-year-old male asked:
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Diverticulosis: Diverticulosis can cause pain in left lower quadrant. Treat constipation, report immediately if fever, urinary symptoms , nausea vomiting to a dr.
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A 37-year-old female asked:
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Abdominal pain: It is important to know location of pain, type of pain - constant, intermittent, colicky, burning, aching, radiation of pain, relation to food- food m... Read More
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A 19-year-old female asked:
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UTI: Urinary tract infection can cause bleeding from irinary tract known as hematiria and mimic spotting. Associated symptoms of burning, dusuria, freque... Read More
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A 31-year-old female asked:
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Burn: Could be chemical or heat burn . Follow dermatologist's advice. Once starts to heal can use vitamin E oil to avoid scarring. If skin burns ice is he... Read More
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A 27-year-old female asked:
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Post pill amenorrhea: It is not uncommon to have skipped period after taking birth control pills for long time. as long as a sensitive pregnancy test is negative. I would r... Read More
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A 19-year-old female asked:
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Abdominal pain: Do you have heartburn ? Are you constipated. Chest pain and anxiety are noted in gerd patients-stop spicy food soda, coffee, late dinner . Abdominal ... Read More
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A 30-year-old female asked:
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URI: Steam inhalation for 30 to 40 minutes to get mucus out , salt water gargles, plenty of warm fluids, sinus rinse with salt water and rest.
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A 22-year-old female asked:
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PID: Pid is pelvic inflammatory disease and we treat both even if one of them results positive.
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A 25-year-old female asked:
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Diarrhea: It is not recommended to stop the diarrhea usually because would like the bugs that caused it to come out as soon as possible be in virus, bacteria, o... Read More
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A 47-year-old female asked:
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Back Pain: Very common condition due to improper position and chronic strain. Will not go away immediately and slowly start stretching the back with yoga exercis... Read More
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A 37-year-old male asked:
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Ignore: Avoid brain stimulation during headache like watching TV, using phone, loud music and bright light.
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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BPPV: Benign positional paroxysmal vertigo. Usually self resolving in a day or so.Sometimes lasts longer . . Associated nausea quite common. Look up epley's... Read More
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A 54-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Hursuitism: It is common to have some hair growth on face after menopause. If you feel it but can't see it it could be just budding out. Take help of someone to s... Read More
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A 19-year-old male asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Ear cerumen impactio: There is something called ear wax removal drops available over the counter. You can put the drops every day until it softens and then can get ear wash... Read More
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A 36-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Ovulation Pain: During ovulation one can get back pain, pelvic pain and discomfort. Looks like fever chills and diarrhea are coincidental.ovulation pain should be no ... Read More
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A 43-year-old male asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Muscle Strain: The commonest cause of pain in upper shoulder after long hours of exercising is from over use fatigue of the muscle. Try to do shoulder stretches befo... Read More
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A 22-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Delayed periods : Wait and watch. Time will tell. Don't take any meds. Early pregnancy can be missed by some preganancy tests. Can repeat a test in next two weeks if st... Read More
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A 36-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Muscle strain: Most likely trapezius muscle strain. Ice massage and stretching with OTC pain meds is what you need. Arterial pain does not get relieved with ice as w... Read More
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A female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Constipation: You need to add fiber in form of fresh vegetables in your diet, drink a lot of water, avoid meat and white flour, take Metamucil or miralax to cleanse... Read More
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A 28-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Delayed menstruation: You must rule out pregnancy. Also consider urinary tract infection, vaginitis . Do not take meds until diagnosis is made.
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A 18-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Pregnancy: If you have had unprotected sex in last 3 months it is very likely that you could be pregnant esp if you were having normal periods in past. Heartburn... Read More
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A 20-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Ureteric stone: Small renal stone may or may not be felt passing through female urethra since it is short and straight. Also depends on orientation and shape of stone... Read More
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A 23-year-old male asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Heat exhaustion : Can't do much in la except staying out of sun between 10 and 4, use sun protective glasses clothes and wide rim hat, hydrate yourself.
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A 17-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Muscle strain: You might have pulled a muscle a muscle called muscle strain. Ice , slow massage, pain meds may help. Try to stretch out the affected area , will help... Read More
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A 36-year-old male asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Chest wall pain: Do you have pain on deep breathing, did you do weight lifting, is the pain reproducible on palpation. Of answer is yes, it is muscle pain not heart p... Read More
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A 33-year-old male asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Back strain: Best way to avoid back pain in waking up is regular back stretches daily preferably twice a day. A lot of them are posted on u tube. Instead of changi... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Candidial vaginitis: Symptoms mimicking UTI may not be uti. Antibiotic should not be taken if it not proven UTI . When you have yeast infection you scratch in the area wh... Read More
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A 16-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Scalp contusion: Head trauma in pediatrics needs to be supervised by an adult for about 24 hours. constant unconsolable cry, vomiting, excessive sleepiness, abnormal b... Read More
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A 31-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Plantar Fascitis: Sometimes plantar fascitis is hard to treat and can take upto two years to heal. Daily rolling your foot on a tennis ball as hard as you can, long ter... Read More
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A 39-year-old member asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Chlamadia: About 50 % of chlamadia infection is asymptomatic and so it is hard to say when someone got the infection. However if treated on time along with gono... Read More
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A 26-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
BPPV: Benign positional paroxysmal vertigo. Usually self resolving in a day or more.Sometimes last longer . . Associated nausea? Do not drive. Stay in bed ... Read More
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A 23-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Constipation : Eat high fiber diet, avoid meat and white flour, use otc laxative.
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A 23-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Dysmenorrhea : Very common condition if starts on first day of cycle and is crampy, or generalized lower back pain and thigh pain. If not contraindicated , Ibuprofen... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Back pain: It is not normal to have any pain anytime except labor pain, especially localized pain. It could be coming from muscle skin or a joint. If skin looks... Read More
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A female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Dysmenorrhea : Very common to have pain on first day of cycle known as dysmenorrhea . Conservative treatment is all that is necessary. Ibuprofen works very good if ... Read More
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A 44-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Palpitations: Hope treatable conditions like hyperthyroidism, svt , anemia etc are ruled out. Hope she is not using drugs , or too much caffeine and is well hydrate... Read More
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A 31-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Peptic ulcer disease: Pain must resolve in 3 to 6 weeks, of not must see a physician for further work up like endoscopy. At least burning is gone so you are getting better.
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A 45-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Muscle strain: It seems you have strained a trapezius muscle, pain is worse on movement, coughing, sneezing, and at night. Ice, massage and stretching with otc pain ... Read More
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A 42-year-old male asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Acute back strain : Ice followed by massage with lubricant or any balm, followed by gentle back stretches to be done as often as possible every hour for 10 minutes until ... Read More
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A 21-year-old male asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Chalazion: Chalazions are persistent swelling on eyelid from blocked glands. Definitive treatment is surgery however ophthalmologist wait till there are big enou... Read More
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A 28-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Postpartum anemia: Do need iron and vitamins for a while after child birth especially multiple births and even more if breast feeding. Definitely get another CBC done to... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
PPD positive: Is this PPD positive? If so with weight loss and rib pain needs to rule out Tuberculosis. Must see a physician as soon as possible for further investi... Read More
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A 27-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Weight loss: Unintentional weight loss along with dizziness , fatigue needs immediate medical attention. Causes are hyperthyroidism, anemia etc . Please see your... Read More
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A 52-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 34 years experience
Diet: I am sorry the question is incomplete and not easy to understand. Can you reframe it? Are you worried about diabetes because he is eating too many swe... Read More
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Mar 30, 2015
Dr. Shah is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Mar 31, 2015
Dr. Shah is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Sorry, I do not understand this answer. This does not relate to me. I.already described that I had abdominal pain, so, this must be for someone else.
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Thank you, your answer was very helpful! Hoping to reduce the pain with the recommended approaches
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Thanks for your quick reply! Thank you but ibuprofen does not work. neither does naproxen.
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M. S. University of Baroda Medical College, India
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LAC USC medical center
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