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Midstate Medical Center
Meriden, CT
About
Bio
I'm a doubly board certified Infectious Diseases specialist and Internal Medicine doctor. I have an interest in rabies and rabies exposures, travel medicine, vaccines and other infectious diseases. I think it is a special privilege to be a doctor and I like to help whenever I can.
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Infectious Disease
Licenses
United States: Connecticut
Languages spoken
English, Thai
Doctor Q&A
1.4K Answers
279 Agrees
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A 33-year-old member asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Rabies in mammals: Rabies is not found in birds. The disease only occurs in mammals. Therefore, one can only get rabies from the bite (or scratch) of a mammal. About 1 ... Read More
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3.9k viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 38-year-old member asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Clinical rabies: The symptoms of rabies after a 'real' exposure usually average 3 weeks to 3 months for humans. Extremes can sometimes occur with the shortest incubat... Read More
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4k viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 29-year-old member asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
No dog rabies in U.S: The CDC declared the U.S. free of rabies in dogs. That's because most dogs are vaccinated, & the virus has 'no where else' to live in the dog popu... Read More
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3.9k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 32-year-old member asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Rabies treatment: Rabies treatments are spectacularly effective - so even if you were bitten by a known rabid animal, you will not get rabies.
One of the best things y... Read More
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4k viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A male asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Immune system: Three vaccines at one time are a significant stimulus to the immune system. That's exactly what you want - to train the immune system to fend off any ... Read More
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946 viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 45-year-old member asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Bacterial community: Bacteria, just like people, are vying for space and resources all the time. There are generally 'good' bacteria -which help with digestion, defending ... Read More
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495 viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 49-year-old member asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Not ideal: Cipro is not something I like to use for treating MSSA (Methicillin Sensitive Staph Aureus). That is a bad germ. The problem is the prostate has a cap... Read More
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454 viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 41-year-old male asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Call your doctor: It's probably the steroids that are causing the elevated blood pressure -so if you still have some of that left, I would call your doctor to try and g... Read More
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1.5k viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 20-year-old male asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Influenza can kill: Well I'm a strong advocate of getting flu shots -it's the best prevention we have, short of living in a plastic bubble the entire flu season. That sai... Read More
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3.5k viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 32-year-old female asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
See a doctor : This has me concerned – I think you have a infection from where you injected those drugs. This can progress, including infection of the bloodstream, w... Read More
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1.2k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A male asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Resistance suspected: Some germs 'don't respond' to an empiric course of antibiotics. You need proper evaluation with a urinary culture. That will give a 'road map' for wha... Read More
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841 viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 17-year-old female asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Metabolic demands: It may be that your body is looking for extra energy and nutrients to fight whatever ailment those antibiotics have been prescribed for. I don't belie... Read More
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1.5k viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 20-year-old male asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Imodium isn't good: I don't recommend imodium or other meds that might stop diarrhea - because if u think about it, diarrhea is actually good. Your body is getting rid of... Read More
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795 viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 45-year-old member asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Monkey pox: This is a 'pox virus' infection, somewhat similar to smallpox, although it is often milder. Symptoms can include fever/chills, headaches, muscle aches... Read More
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544 viewsReviewed Aug 07, 2022
A 41-year-old member asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Hygiene: There are basics of good hygiene that can go along way to preventing airborne infections. One is to keep away from those who are infected. Wearing a p... Read More
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495 viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 23-year-old female asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Healthy relationship: Two weeks seems like a long time. I'm sure your boyfriend is having fun -but something doesn't seem quite right. This would be an important discussion... Read More
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1.2k viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 24-year-old female asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Herpes testing: The tricky thing about herpes, is that many people don't know they have it. Thus, if starting in a new relationship where you might be having unprotec... Read More
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3.5k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 18-year-old male asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Needs more info: It would be helpful to know more about the exact water exposure - whether it was from a filthy pond, from the shower, or what exactly. This would be h... Read More
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1.1k viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 50-year-old member asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Antibiotic caution: It's best to get a doc's input on whether you need antibiotics or not...Particularly in this day and age when side effects can be worse (C. diff) and ... Read More
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1.8k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 22-year-old female asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Open sores: An open sore is anything where the 'roof' or top layer of skin has come off. This obviously isn't good because it makes it easier for germs to enter t... Read More
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3.5k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 46-year-old female asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
That's extreme: Why not try something like beta-blocker therapy? Something that's been shown to have an effect? Propranolol or another similar type medication could h... Read More
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644 viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 35-year-old female asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Serious infection: Well, as Dr. Hunter Hansfield and others have suggested, infective endocarditis is a serious illness. Good that overall you are better, but you most ... Read More
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331 viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 27-year-old male asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Negative test-No HIV: I would trust these tests - they are saying all the same thing LONG after some 'possible' exposure. There must be another cause for your symptoms - an... Read More
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691 viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A female asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Call doctor NOW!: If you think you are having complications from that surgery, you need to be seen immediately. I would call, and if you don't get through, go to an eme... Read More
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841 viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A male asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Needs evaluation: Sounds like acute pharyngitis -so he needs testing for Group A Strep (Strep throat) because that can be serious, and testing for Mono. (Especially if ... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Drug reaction: I'm concerned this rash needs to be checked out by a doctor. While it's certainly possible this is 'just' acne, some TB meds (INH or isoniazid) can ca... Read More
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3.7k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 26-year-old female asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
We know what to do: It could happen but is very unlikely. Ebola is pretty bad but luckily we have an excellent healthcare system. Quarantine procedures would be strictly ... Read More
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A 24-year-old male asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Bad stomach flu: This sounds like you could have a severe gastroenteritis. Because of the fever AND the diarrhea, you should get it checked. You should be seen by a do... Read More
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3.7k viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 21-year-old female asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Contact allergy: It sounds like one of the 'beauty' products you might be using is causing an allergy. I would look at all the ingredients listed on the side panel of ... Read More
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3.8k viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 23-year-old female asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Body's resilience: Luckily the body is built extremely well. Plenty of people can survive with one lung only... or one kidney, and so on. Once he recovers from the surge... Read More
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A 18-year-old female asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Its all about energy: Your body has only so much 'energy' or resources for the day-so if you want to practice softball, you should think seriously about how well (or not) y... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Trichomonas treated?: Two major factors need to be addressed: 1) if you took all the medicine (metronidazole) as prescribed, and by the way pills are better than cream 2) d... Read More
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A male asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Causes of diarrhea: There are many causes of diarrhea -and good if you have an ID doctor or a GI doctor to help figure it out. Often 'clues' can be found by asking questi... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Several days: Lymecycline is a tetracycline antibiotic that can have photosensitivity. The half-life of the medicine is 10 hours, so after several days, it should b... Read More
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495 viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 24-year-old female asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Hydration: One way to help reduce urinary infections, is to keep the bladder 'flushing'. You can do that by DRINKING water or other fluids. The body was designed... Read More
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A 22-year-old male asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Extremely rare: Most of the strains of Group A Strep that caused Rheumatic fever are now extinct in the United States. In almost 20 years of practice, I've only found... Read More
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415 viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 42-year-old member asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Immune system: Humans, fortunately, have an amazing immune system that works night and day, 24/7 to stop germs from causing us any harm. Usually when an infection ta... Read More
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544 viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 45-year-old member asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Urinary infection: Urine and the urinary tract, is ordinarily sterile. "Something" happens, that allows bacteria to take hold. This is what's called a UTI or urinary tra... Read More
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495 viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 28-year-old female asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
The way God made you: Some people respond well to a vaccine, serologically (which means something can be measured). Whereas others may not. MMR is actually quite a good vac... Read More
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700 viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 50-year-old member asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Difficult to say: This question is so broad, it's hard to answer. There are various 'groups' of people one could look at - from babies, so kids, to adults, and even old... Read More
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495 viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 22-year-old male asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Cipro (ciprofloxacin) side-effects: All medicines can have side-effects and if you notice a correlation between the time you take the Cipro (ciprofloxacin) and these side-effects, then i... Read More
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A female asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Growth charts help: The CDC publishes charts that help with these questions. Please see https://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/set1clinical/cj41l022.pdf
for the right cha... Read More
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663 viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 41-year-old member asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Food poisoning: It kind of depends on 'what' the agent is that's causing the food poisoning, in order to best understand the symptoms and the course of the disease. F... Read More
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A member asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Complications: Certainly a preceding viral infection can 'set you up' for a subsequent bacterial infection by weakening you. It actually happens quite often after so... Read More
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664 viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 20-year-old male asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Bronchitis blues: Depending on the germ that caused the bronchitis and you, the patient, symptoms of something like that can vary. Not sure if your doc 'nailed' the eti... Read More
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A 36-year-old female asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Needs Emergency Room: For a patient who cannot keep down even liquids (chicken soup, water), there is a real risk of dehydration and subsequent kidney injury, which can pro... Read More
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544 viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 21-year-old male asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Illness -Dehydration: It sounds like you are dehydrated - since you describe a 'loose' motion-- diarrhea. With diarrhea, you lose salt and water. Try replacing these losse... Read More
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3.1k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 17-year-old male asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Recommend safety: Safe sex is doctor advised. Latex barriers such as condoms are very helpful in preventing disease. Mild pain with urinating, dysuria, could be a sympt... Read More
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A 35-year-old female asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Lassa fever dangers: This disease is dangerous -and is transmitted by 'dust' or aerosols. Mice/rats contaminate food supplies and then you have the issue of what to do wit... Read More
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A 36-year-old male asked:
Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Urticaria: This sounds like an allergic process- urticaria, where you can have hives after some stimulus. It's possibly triggered by something u eat or are expos... Read More
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Oct 29, 2014
It is a wonderful thing that Dr. Scholand is a part of the HealthTap community! His answers are a great benefit to his patients, and frankly to me. I learn a great deal from the work he does. He's com...Read More
Dec 7, 2017
I recently sought Dr. Scholand's advice on an Infectious Disease question and was not disappointed so I started browsing through his responses. I had to stop after reading 5 or 10 of his answers becau...Read More
Oct 1, 2017
Dr. Stephen Scholand is really helpful to anyone with a medical question. Dr. Scholand's answers explain things clearly, in plain English, and make people feel comforted about their health concerns.
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This was very helpful. Thanks! Thank you so much! Your explanation makes sense. And yes i do have a doctor that i see annually. You are very kind and knowledgeable! I waited so long for a clear cut an...Read More
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This was very helpful. Thanks! Thank u so much for answering my question. I have contacted the doctor and been given Keflex which seems to b helping. As u said i will never take macrobid again and t...Read More
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Hi Dr Scholand, thanks for your reply, you are spot on, the pain became so severe that I was admitted to hospital, after tests it was diagnosed as Pericarditis. On medication now and recovering well....Read More
Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
George Washington University Medical School, DC
MD
Residency
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Awards
Teacher of the Year in Specialty Training, 2011, 2008, 2007
Top Doctor, First Place, New Haven Region - Summer
2014
Top Infectious Disease Specialist , First Place, National - Summer
2014
Affiliations
Infectious Disease Society of America
CT Infectious Disease Society
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