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A 76-year-old female asked:
how do i use the vertical red rectangle with a 1 inside it beside my profile picture at top right of screen, and what does it mean?
2 doctor answers • 4 doctors weighed in
Dr. John Munshower answered
Family Medicine 30 years experience
Click on it: Click on it, it may mean there is a (in your case 1) message or something there for you to read.
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Dr. Donald Alves answered
Emergency Medicine 24 years experience
Notification: Click on it. It means that you have a notification--answer, comment, agree, or similar. It will open a scroll list of the above for your review, and you can click on any of those if want to explore them further.
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A 21-year-old member asked:
Can I get screened or tested to find out whether I have been exposed to anthrax?
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Dr. Barbara A Majeroni answered
Specializes in Family Medicine
Not really: If you have symptoms of anthrax, a blood culture and gram stain can be used to confirm the diagnosis.
Anthrax is very rare in the US.
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A 21-year-old member asked:
How does the doctor test for mg?
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Dr. Jack Mutnick answered
Allergy and Immunology 17 years experience
MG: Please be more specific.....Mg?
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A 44-year-old member asked:
How should you test for mold?
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Dr. Randy Baker answered
Holistic Medicine 40 years experience
ERMI test: Mold toxicity is a surprisingly common yet often hidden factor in chronic health problems. While mold cultures have often been used in the past, experts in the field now feel the best test is the ermi (environmental relative moldiness index) which analyzes dna from mold spores found in dust. See http://www.Survivingmold.Com/docs/diagnosis/ermi/articles/ermi_v26_p32_filtrationnews_2007.Pdf.
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A 32-year-old member asked:
What kinds of things can allergists test for at their office?
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Dr. John Overholt answered
Allergy and Immunology 26 years experience
Lots: Allergists commonly skin test for inhalant allergies (pollens, dust mites, animals, molds), foods, stinging insect allergy, penicillin allergy, and latex allergy. Oral challenges to drugs and foods are occasionally done as well.
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A 35-year-old member asked:
What diseases is an autoantibody check for?
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Dr. Bac Nguyen answered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
A few examples: Antibody=protein your body makes to get rid off/attack a substance it considered foreign. Autoantibody refers to antiboby that is produced which attack its own body tissues. Famous example: rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, mixed connective tissue disease, autoimmune thyroiditis, type 1 diabetes, rheumatic heart disease, some nephropathies (kidney diseases) etc..Have fun learning. Good luck.
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