Dr. Kathleen Gilmore
Urgent Care
Ann Arbor, MI
28 years experience female
Locations
Procerus Skin Care
Ann Arbor, MI
About
Bio
I have always wanted to be a doctor. My mother had a rare disorder called Wilson's disease. As a small child my brother and rode the bus with my mother to her appointments which were always in teaching hospitals. I watched as she was examined, and the residents and medical students were call in to see the findings associated with her disease. For most of these doctors in training, this was the only time they would see these findings. It was here that I got my vision. I too wanted to become a doctor in training. Thanks Mom! I absolutely love what I do. I love interacting with patients, and I get to travel to impoverished areas to and participate in free clinics. I can"t imagine being anything else!
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.
Urgent Care
Aesthetic Medicine
Family Medicine
Licenses
United States: California, Florida, Michigan, New York
Languages spoken
English
Doctor Q&A
188 Answers
158 Agrees
The number of answers this doctor has agreed with.
A 37-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Scabies Treatment: It is best to follow the treatment as prescribed, using the Premetherin Cream directly on the skin to eradicate the Scabies Mite. You can take an oral... Read More
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A 50-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Depends: If you feel you have good function of your hand, are not required to lift heavy objects, and practice good hand washing, then yes.
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A 18-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Hands down: I agree, you should not have manipulated the pimple. Next time, if the pimple is sore, try applying a warm cloth to the surface of the skin gently. A... Read More
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A 30-year-old male asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Bismuth: Both drug classes have diarrhealisted has a potential side efect. You may want to try Bismuth, such as in Pepto Bismuth.
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A 19-year-old male asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Soft tissue swelling: A slight muscle strain can cause a deep bruise as can bumping into something. If there is no significant limitation to the use, strength, or range of ... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Perioral dermatitis: Perioral dermatitis vs Ezcema. Excema would be treated with moisturizer and topical steroids, for perioral dermatitis, these are not helpful and would... Read More
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A 37-year-old male asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Ignore: Get tested
have partner/partners tested, they may not have symptoms
treatment easy vs fallout.
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A 24-year-old male asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Loose and or: C. Difficile diarrhea causes loose stools, it can also cause runny diarrhea.
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A 53-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
If classic: There are classic history and examination findings for Group A strep infection. I normally send a culture to document the presence of infection, which... Read More
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A 28-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Surgical knowledge: A General Surgeon, a Plastic Surgeon or a Dermatologist. They would all be able to distinguish between the two and would be able to provide the proper... Read More
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A 37-year-old male asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Ignore: Bruises are from broken blood vessels. Some body areas have lots of room so the bruise can expand.
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A female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
See doc: Nosebleeds and spitting out blood can be connected. Your age, frequency of nose bleeds, and how they have been managed can help.
Knowing that there ... Read More
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A 38-year-old member asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Home, Sun, Smoke: Sun damage, smoking, and genetics are the most common causes. Two of these can be changed, to at least slow down the skin aging process.
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A 30-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Obstructive tonsils?: How long have they been this swollen? Also how old is he, and we would want to know how it affects his breathing, eating, speech, and sleep (snoring),... Read More
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A 32-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Many possibilities: It could be any number of things. This could be a contact allergy, a reaction to something you are allergic to. It could be a cluster of bug bites. M... Read More
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A 27-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Ok to take: White flower oil as an analgesic typically is a mix of camphor, mint and lavender. These herbal ingredients are safe in pregnancy. Check with your OB ... Read More
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A 39-year-old member asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
IPL for Legs: Not if used alone, but if used in combination with skin lightener such as hydroquinone, it can.
Extremities respond very well to ipl for ablation of ... Read More
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A 40-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Available but varies: There is a reference range reported per laboratory. I was able to locate one TSH 3rd generation test online in Ireland reporting a reference range of ... Read More
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A 16-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Many possible: You should have it examined by a doctor. Depending upcoming it cause, the treatment options can be very different. Possibilities include but are not ... Read More
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A 31-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Watching the clock: Walking, and taking advantage of these hours you have to prepare and reflect are useful. Avoid suggested herbal or complimentary regimens, and stick ... Read More
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A 19-year-old male asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Typically no: They are typically very painful causing patients to seek urgent treatment. The usual immediate treatment is lancing to remove the thrombus.
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A 35-year-old male asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Fatigue: You mention having nasal congestion, this is often reported as causing difficulty with breathing. Cough or cold symptoms or chronic sinus symptoms can... Read More
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A 38-year-old male asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Get Checked: Stabbing lower abdominal pain in pregnancy should be evaluated. Can be a sign of an urgent medical condition. Contact your ob/gyn.
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A 27-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Additional tests: You can contact the clinic where you had the STD testing to learn if a wet mount was performed. Often standard lab testing checks for Gonorrhea and Ch... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Ok to take: There are no drug interactions with common combination cold and sinus over the counter medications, such as Advil (ibuprofen) Cold and Sinus which con... Read More
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A 34-year-old male asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Normal swallow: First, lets decide if we want to swallow the water from gargling. In general, for any liquid we swallow, we do it very well. Our mouth and tongue help... Read More
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A 16-year-old male asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Keep out: Yes, old blood from a procedure may/will be seen. Some of it dries on the lining inside the nose. When our noses run, the dried blood is moistened and... Read More
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A 26-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Eliminate sugars: Number one would be to reduce sugar intake. This includes high calorie beverages. Soft drinks, sweet tea, frappes, even juice. Water, mineral water (s... Read More
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A 29-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Better to wait: The american academy of pediatrics has positioned against cold and cough medications for children, because the side effects of the medications far out... Read More
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A 23-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Not likely: Your history mentions 2 previous births. Circumstances supporting pregnancy, include having sexual intercourse without using birth control, a late or... Read More
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A 19-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Possibly started as: You described a draining abcess, a walled off inflammed skin infection. It may have initially been a pimple (comedome), that was scratched and bacter... Read More
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A 29-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Needs to see Doctor: She sounds very ill. A kidney infection is quite serious. If not improving, or if worsening now, she definitely needs to be brought back to her phys... Read More
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A 20-year-old male asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Abdominal pain: A couple a possibilities are increased gastric acid production related to anxiety, or constipation. Try a clear liquid diet and a stool softener. Be... Read More
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A 37-year-old male asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Ignore: Sick to my stomach. Nothing stays down. -best to have only sips of water till vomiting stops.
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A 37-year-old male asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Ignore: Avoid foods high in acid, fatty foods, caffiene, and alcohol.
Avoid lying flat, situps, straining.
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A 40-year-old member asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Keep out: Nose bleeds are most common when its dry, so check the humidity. You can try inhaling steam. They also arise from trauma to the thin lining overlying ... Read More
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A 33-year-old male asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Cough Relief: If short term, lozenges work well. Not curative of course, but assuming it is from a cold virus or brief irritation, they will sooth and lubricate you... Read More
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A male asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Cold water is A- OK: You can drink all the cold water you want. It goes behind the arytenoids and down your esophagus. Drinking cold water or room temperature water is a ... Read More
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A 26-year-old male asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
None Cited: There are no interactions cited for pyridoxine or thiamine when taking doxycycline. I appreciate your question. It is always best to check.
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A 16-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Seen an ENT: If you have not seen an Ear Nose and Throat Doctor, then you should see one. You likely have chronic fluid. You say that it is not wax, implying tha... Read More
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A 45-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Pursue further eval: These symptoms should be further pursued with a more in depth medical history and physical exam, very likely pulmonary function testing.
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A 32-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Contact your Surgeon: Best to check with your surgeon. Until you are able to speak to your surgeon, avoid hot foods and beverages, spicy foods, citrus, and any other irrita... Read More
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Urgent Care 28 years experience
OUCH!!!: Pain, deformity, loss of function.
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A 20-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Flu Shot helps: Influenza is differentiated from a cold by the presence of high fever, body aches and chills. Also presence during higher prevalence time for influen... Read More
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A 22-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Seek urgent eval: Yes. We cannot otherwise evaluate online. He should be evaluated and assessed in person urgently.
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A 20-year-old female asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Tincture of time: Bruising is a common side effect of a needle puncture. It does not imply any need for a change in the treatment for your kidney infection. Bruising c... Read More
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A 37-year-old male asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Ignore: Arise from trauma to the lining or from high bp
blow your nose
pinch soft part and hold for 5min.
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A 37-year-old male asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Ignore: Use ice right away. Take an antihistamine as soon as possible. Get a good look at it if you can.
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A 59-year-old male asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Hair, skin and sugar: It has been reported for benefits regarding Diabetes and reducing blood sugar, also in reducing triglycerides. The data is preliminary, and fair for b... Read More
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A 35-year-old male asked:

Dr. Kathleen Gilmoreanswered
Urgent Care 28 years experience
Watching and Comfort: Monitor him for fever, temp above 100.1, and signs of difficulty in breathing. As long as he is breathing well, other than the runny or stuffy nose, j... Read More
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Jul 27, 2014
Dr. Gilmore is a compassionate and knowledgable doctor with practical knowledge of a wide range of topics.
May 30, 2015
Very good answers. Knowledgeable and insightful. Highly recommend Dr Gilmore
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Mar 30, 2015
Dr. Gilmore is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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This was very helpful. Thanks! My voice was like this for over an entire month & now is coming back to normal. Every time I have a seizure NOW it'll turn "helium" for 10mins-hours!
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This was very helpful. Thanks! thanks for your advise. i am tracking my problem more carefully now and will revert when i want more information . thanks again
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I still don't know what to do about the severe pain I'm in 90% of the time. The only relief I get is when I'm sleeping. The steroid made it way worse!
Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
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MD
Medical/Graduate school
Wayne State University School of Medicine, MI
Graduated 1995MD
Residency
OAKWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER
Completed 2001
Awards
Award for Research, National Medical Fellowships
Top Doctor, Third Place, Ann Arbor Region - Summer
2014
Top Urgent Care Specialist , First Place, National - Summer
2014
Affiliations
AAFP
American Society for Lasers in Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS)
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