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Dr. Jess Crosieranswered
33 years experience
Vinegar: A change in pH will cause the microbiome to change. Just like changing homes will change the visitors.
Vinegar will decrease the pH.
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Blood: Blood parameters outside the normal range (determined by laboratory) for a patient's sex and age.
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Metal: Heavy metals are particularly toxic, due to buildup in the body, and very minimal physiologic disposal. The interfere with enzymes that use similiar ... Read More
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Urine: yeast = fishy smell. Clear urine should not smell. Fishy smell suggests infection, likely overgrowth Candida sps.
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Myelopathy: Disorder of the bone marrow or its constituents.
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Anthrax: Bacillus microbe that is highly resistant to extreme environmental states. Commonly occurs in livestock industry and has military potential in a weap... Read More
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Sebaceous: Sebaceous usually refers to clinical description of skin
products, not strictly oil glands, and hence blockage of hair follicles is equivalent to seba... Read More
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Folliculitis: Red and white bumps painful and itchy.
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Warts: Warts are a local viral infection. Time cures most.
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Bcc: Not getting it entirely removed. It must be COMPLETELY surgically removed or it will return.
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Dark urine: Urine tends to be golden yellow from uric acid excretion.
Brown or red suggests hemolysis, i.e. dark urine.
Many causes, from trauma, infection, neopl... Read More
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Hypereosinophilia: Absolute increase in eosinophil numbers, without another obvious cause resulting in a constellation of symptoms including puritis and allergic type s... Read More
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Warts: How do you know he does not have them? They often are microscopic infections, that are not clinically visible.
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PPK: PPK is thickening of skin of palms and hands specifically, usually genetic.
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Prion: An infection agent consisting only of protein. They behave in very much as slow viral infections do clinically. Many are neurodegenerative; think ... Read More
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Fungus: All dermatomycosis are dermatophytosis, but not other way around. Dermatophytons are keratin eating fungi, think 'ring worm'. Fungi just happening ... Read More
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Hemangioma: Benign neoplasia of small blood vessels.
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Dermatomyositis: Literally inflammation of the skin and muscles. A very broad term generally encompassing otherwise uncharacterized general malaise, soreness, and fat... Read More
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Numbness: The feeling after your "foot falls asleep".
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Scar: Excessive or exuberant injury site growth. Good rule of thumb is level of cicatrix above normal skin level in older injury site. It is subjective t... Read More
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Verruca: A descriptive term referring to any elevated serrated epidermal lesion. Specifically, Verruca vulgaris which is caused by the human papilloma virus ... Read More
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Cat urine: Ammonia smell. Ammonia is derived from protein metabolism. Need to drink plenty of H2O.
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Blood alcohol : Alcohol defuses throughout body generally, as opposed to localizing. More mass, less effect, lower perceived blood alcohol level.
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Pap cpt: Original physician collection - no code, not billed separately. Always part of office visit, perhaps.
88164 Bethesda terminology manually read
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Cell culture: Tissue culture is the growth of dispersed living cells in a broth suspension, rather like bacteria on an old agar plate.
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Pores: Keratinous debris, degenerating skin cells, sweat, and oil. Soap and water.
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Lead: Ingestion of ANY amount of Pb.
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Wart: I would highly recommend neither!
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Warts: They will bleed and could become infected.
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Strep staph: Nares and anus.
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