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Tis the season to be sneezing · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  As God intended.
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  Let's go.
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  Well, hello, hello.
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  This is Dr.
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  Angie Farella, and this is Looking for Healing Radio.
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  Happy Thanksgiving weekend, everyone.
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  I hope everyone was able to come together with their families and friends and really just enjoy a great holiday season.
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  You know, this is kind of the kickoff.
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  You know, I I feel like when it is Halloween, that is my kickoff to the Halloween holiday season.
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  And um, but it really doesn't get real until it's Thanksgiving.
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  You know, that's where we bring our friends and families together and we get a chance to really have a fun weekend or just even just a couple of nights with just some friends because we've been doing that uh for a long time here.
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  You know, I used to do something called orphan Thanksgiving, where people who didn't have family or were from outside this area is you know, I would invite them over and we would have um a meal together.
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  So, you know, if you are one of those people who does not have a whole lot of family, we do something called friends giving, you know.
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  So try to get in on the festivities with your family and friends.
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  It is so much fun when you get a chance to just get everyone together and exchange, you know, war stories from way back when and reminisce, or even make new ones, make new memories, right?
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  That is exactly what we're all about here.
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  So we're gonna talk about tis the season to be sneezing.
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  Yeah, this is one of those times of year, also that you know, with family and friends, they bring some of their own germs with them too.
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  And it is sometimes very disconcerting, but we all know that there are ways to prevent illness, and there are ways that you can uh protect yourself and protect your family, and also we're gonna talk a little bit about when you get in stuck in that, you know, what do we do?
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  What do we talk about?
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  What do we um how do we protect ourselves?
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  How do we get over it fast, right?
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  So, you know, think about it this way.
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  You know, school is going in full swing, but you know, they have lots of breaks, and when they have lots of breaks, that means the cousins are coming in or friends with kids are coming in, and you know, or there's kids that are going back to school sick, you know, they pick something up.
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  And is this a cold?
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  Is this flu?
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  Is this RSV?
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  Is it allergies?
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  You know, what exactly is this?
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  This is where everyone has been hugging on each other and in indoors for a long time, and now they're all exchanging the junk, as we like to say.
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  Um, and so let's let's try to go um and talk a little bit about what is the difference between cold flu, other viral illnesses, or is it just allergies?
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  And what can we do to prevent it?
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  And and also when do we worry about it?
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  You know, a lot of times, sometimes we just push ourselves too much and we have to just slow down to speed up and lay down and rest, and that's our body's way of telling us, you know, you need to chill out a little bit.
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  So one of the things that um I would like to start with is let's just start with, you know, how do you tell the difference between a cold, flu, um, other viruses, or is this just plain allergies?
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  Well, let's start with allergies because um this is a season for allergies, you know, the fall season is in full swing.
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  That's what hay fever is.
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  Um, I tell a lot of my families that are from Texas because nothing really dies in Texas, unfortunately.
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  So our allergy season tends to be much longer than other places in the country.
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  And I also want to bring up some, you know, what are some common things that are going on during this um time of the year?
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  Well, first is weather patterns, right?
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  And weather patterns change in the fall pretty drastically.
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  We have cold fronts that come in from the north and they're blowing in different allergens in those in those wind patterns.
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  So, for instance, you know, like I said, we're in southeast um Houston, which is in the south part of Texas, and um it's warm here, it's a very temperate climate here, and so we don't really have a whole lot with you know, leaves changing colors and you know, where it really gets abruptly cold.
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  We have a few cold days where we have to wear jackets or sweaters, and and that's about it.
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  That's it, it's over, you know, blink, and we're back to the 75 uh 75 degree temperatures all year round.
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  So, you know, in in our area, one of the things that I always tell people is like watch the weather because when these cold fronts blow in, like those northerns blow in, they tend to blow in across our hill country.
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  And in Texas, the hill country is filled with trees known as mesquite trees, and also there's a lot of cedar in the hill country, and so this can blow in cedar fever, and cedar fever is a fall to early winter allergen.
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  So we really do try to minimize that as much as we can.
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  But with winds that come down, there's there's nothing you can do.
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  I mean, if there's northerns blowing in, you're probably going to pick up some cedar fever.
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  So if you are susceptible, of course, if you are not susceptible, it's just going to be a cold front.
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  So what do you do to prevent allergies?
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  Well, there's a couple things.
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  The first thing is you need to keep your ummune system primed and ready.
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  Really super important to keep your your immune system as tuned up as you possibly can.
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  And how do you do that?
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  Well, a couple different things.
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  One is food, you know, if you eat fermented foods, that's pretty a good basic one to start with.
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  Fermented foods are things like kimchi or pickles or sauerkraut, you know, things of that nature where they have been fermented, those are great because they're chalk full of probiotics and prebiotics.
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  And so that's another thing that you can just understand and take some.
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  The second thing is your probiotics, you could take supplements, right?
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  So probiotic supplements are phenomenal to keeping that immune system in tune and prepped up and ready to go.
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  Um, I recommend probioti often, especially during this time of year.
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  If people are privy to cedar fever, um, one of the things that I tell them is start your allergy medicine early, whatever that is.
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  Okay.
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  So it's really, really important to understand that with the time change um where there's less sunlight, it really does disrupt your sleep.
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  When you disrupt your sleep, you throw your immune system off.
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  When you throw your immune system off, it kind of throws everything off.
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  And so once that happens, your your susceptibility goes up.
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  So, what are some of the things that you could do to um help that?
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  Well, one is during the day, try to get outside a little bit more, right?
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  We know that the sun goes down early, so try to do your outdoor activities while the sun is still up.
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  This will also help you prevent what we call sad or seasonal affective disorder.
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  Now, again, when you have an issue with mild depression or dysphoria or anxiety, this will also wreak havoc on your immune system.
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  And in the winter time, this is not the time that you want that to happen.
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  You're you're inside more in the winter.
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  Um, there's more contacts, closer contacts.
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  You guys don't get to clean out the air in your homes uh because there's all these people in there.
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  Um, and so that just makes it more susceptible for spreading viruses um amongst each other.
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  So be real cognizant of wiping down surfaces and trying to air out the house a little bit on beautiful days.
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  You know, that's what I do is I open up the windows and I air out the house.
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  I find that to be not only invigorating for myself, but it also just makes the house feel a little less stuffy.
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  Um, watch your dry air and your heaters.
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  Don't forget, you know, that stuff will irritate your nose, irritate your throat, and it may make symptoms even worse.
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  So try to um if if you're not in an area of the country where there's much humidity, you may have to use a humidifier.
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  Um, we we don't use humidifiers too much down where I am.
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  I mean, we we can, but one of the things you could do is jump in the shower and just really steam it up in there and breathe in that nice warm, steamed air, and maybe that'll help you a little bit.
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  Um, because a lot if you think about it, if you think about it, cold, flu, allergies, a lot of them have very similar symptoms, and that's because that's the way your body responds to viruses or responds to allergens, right?
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  You get stuffy, you get runny nose, you get um itchiness.
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  Sometimes you get that little frog in your throat where your voice changes a little bit.
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  Sometimes you have um disrupted sleep, sometimes now not so much with allergies, but with viruses, you can get some fever and body aches.
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  So this is all oh, how about some nausea?
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  I mean, allergy.
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  When you have really bad allergies and you have all of that um postnable post nasal drip and it's going into your stomach, it really can irritate the stomach and make you not feel very well, make you feel a little nauseous.
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  So that's another thing, you know, drinking things like green tea, aloe, those are things that really do help the nausea.
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  You can also use, and I don't know if anyone knows this, but if you stick your tongue out and you put a few drops of Benadryl on your tongue, penadril is diphenhydramine, put a few drops on your tongue, it really does quell nausea.
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  So it's a very potent anti-ametic, which is an anti-nause medicine.
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  So you can use that as well.
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  Now, what are the uh big three winter illnesses?
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  So when we're talking about colds, the common cold, you know, basically it kind of starts with a little tickle, or you might have a slight cough, then the runny nose comes.
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  Um, sometimes you get a little sore throat.
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  You might have a very low grade fever, you know, generally in the 100 to 101 range.
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  But that's about it.
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  And it'll go away somewhere between seven to 12 days.
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  Um, anything that lasts or gets or worsens after day five, you probably should see somebody.
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  But um, in general, these are things that you don't feel super sick with the cold, you're kind of more of annoyed.
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  And so drinking hot tea with lemon, that helps the sore throat, the ruddy nose.
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  You can take something like a benadryl or something like that, an antihistamine that'll help the runny nose and the itching.
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  The uh fever, you can take some temperature uh regulating medications like acetaminophen or ibuprofen.
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  I personally recommend ibuprofen over acinaminophine, but really and truly, if you're only taking a dose or two, it doesn't really matter.
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  Now, the other the next illness where you should really be paying attention to pop possible worsening symptoms.
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  Like I said, you know, if if you feel like you're just kind of getting sick and it kind of gradually happens over a couple of days, it's probably just a common cold virus.
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  The symptoms really don't escalate very much.
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  Like I said, it's more of an annoyance, but you can treat the symptoms and make yourself feel better.
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  Now, with any virus, whether it is the common cold, whether it's flu, one of the things I always, always, always recommend is bumping your vitamin D intake.
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  Okay.
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  So you could do that with food, or you could just take a supplement for a couple of days, and I use pretty high doses.
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  If you're an adult, about 20,000 IUs two or three times um in a row, usually will help knock some of that out.
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  So we are in the now with the other illnesses, such as flu.
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  What makes what makes you feel worse is the fact that flu in general comes on very quickly.
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  It's very sudden onset.
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  You get pretty high fevers, you really feel awful.
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  Your head usually hurts terrible.
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  You're exhausted, and your body hurts.
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  Now, flu is a little bit different.
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  It is a virus, but it can hit.
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  But all the things that I just talked about with common colds also help with the flu.
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  You know, I like to recommend tea with honey that helps your sore throat.
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  Um, antipyretic, such as Tylenol or ibuprofen.
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  Usually ibuprofen works a little bit better in flu because it helps with the sore, achy body.
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  The fatigue is not going to go away with anything except rest for the most part.
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  You can use anti-flu medications such as Zufloza, which tends to be my favorite because it's one dose and you're finished and it's over with.
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  The other one for influenza A is a mantidine, and a mantidine works really, really well with very little side effect profile.
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  And the other one is TAM flu.
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  Those are your tamaflu can give you a little more symptoms and a few more side effects.
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  So I tend not to use a whole lot of Tamflu in children just because sometimes the medication is worse than the illness.
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  And if the kids have a pretty minor or just seems to have the symptoms that are a lot more mild than you would consider.
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  And maybe they have a positive flu test or someone in the family is positive for flu or has the flu.
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  I tend to avoid treating kids with anything outside of high dose vitamin D, high dose vitamin C.
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  You can use elderberry, you can use higher dose vitamin A.
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  You can use uh quercetin, which is another supplement that you can buy over the counter.
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  You can get things like uh black seed oil.
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  Um, that tends to help really well too, if that's something that you want to do.
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  Um, I use a lot of fish oil as well.
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  It's great for anti-inflammatory, great for muscle aches and pains.
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  Plus, it helps boost the immune system a little bit.
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  And if you're having abdominal pain, it tends to clear out the gut, where sometimes that's not such a terrible thing.
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  Now, the other thing is wheezing illnesses.
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  So there's a lot of viruses that affect children and especially infants and toddlers and make them wheeze.
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  Okay.
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  If you are susceptible to wheezing, any virus can make a child wheeze.
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  The one that is most famous for doing this is called RSV, respiratory sensual virus.
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  Say that one fast a few times.
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  Um, RSV also can make the babies breathe faster.
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  It also can um decrease feeding.
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  Sometimes they get really, really fussy.
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  What you have to worry about with RSV is you do have to worry about wheezing that you hear even at rest.
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  Um, I usually use things like bronchodilators.
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  I may use an inhaled steroid.
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  I may also use oral steroids to try to get things back on track, open up the airway and help them.
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  You can use humidified air.
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  I use a lot of saline nebs just to clean up the upper airway with the nose being irritated and very, very congested in RSV and other viral illnesses.
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  You can use the nebulizer just to clean out the upper airway.
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  So I do use that quite a bit.
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  You know, there's there's many, many viruses out there, and some are old, some are new, but there's also other ones that will hold hands with each other, right?
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  If you think about it, this is also the time of year where you have mononucleosis, for instance, you are still going to see coronaviruses and COVID in this time of year.
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  So it's really important to try to do the prevention part of it rather than the reactive part of it.
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  So again, let me just summarize that part where we um give you some tips.
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  Just try as much as you can to get as much vitamin D in before the days get shorter.
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  That is a huge thing.
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  Now, don't forget that you know, when you're when you're talking about um allergies and are these things happening, they are.
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  You know, they can happen in the winter, even if you're in a part of the world that there is snow on the ground, it's super cold and the plants are dying off.
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  And this is tis the season to be sneezing.
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  And I am so excited to be here with you all today.
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  I'm very, very happy that we are going to get together this weekend with our friends, our family.
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  And this is just a kickoff.
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  This is a kickoff to the holiday season.
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  We had our Thanksgiving meal with our family and friends.
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  And, you know, we're just going to be piling on more and more people coming into the house or going to the house with holiday parties, holiday get-togethers, cookie exchanges, uh, ornament exchanges, book exchanges, all the things, right?
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  That is what we do this time of year is we get together.
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  And because we are inside, we tend to share a lot more than just hugs and reminiscences.
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  We also share some disgusting gross viruses, right?
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  So, you know, let me just go over really briefly some of the differential uh checklists and your and when you're trying to determine is this a cold or some other virus?
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  Is this the flu?
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  Or is this allergies?
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  Now, number one, if it's fever, if you have any fever, it's most likely not allergies.
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  Allergies generally don't give you fever.
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  It's more likely a viral illness.
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  Now, can it also be a bacterial illness?
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  Absolutely.
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  Um, but that's that's something to make sure that after about five days, if you are not getting better or you're getting worse, make sure you go and see your physician, your practitioner, and really get a good listen to your lungs and make sure there's nothing going on in there.
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  We don't want these things settling into your lungs and making you worse.
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  Now, if you are itchy, you're that's more likely allergy.
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  That's histamine release, you can get a rash from it sometimes.
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  Um, but itching generally will tell you that is allergies.
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  If you were totally fine when you went to bed and you woke up and you feel like a box of bricks were just dropped on your head, it's most likely the flu.
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  If there's a sudden crash or sudden symptom onslaught, that most likely is influenza.
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  And that is something that if you are so choosing, you need to get to your practitioner or your doctor within about 72 hours to get treatment.
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  After 72 hours, it's really useless to treat the flu because those antivirals will not work as well.
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  Now, if you are also wheezing, or you're having a rapid uh breathing rate, or you see that in the children, they're making odd sounds when they breathe, or you find yourself having more difficulty breathing, you know, you can have RSV, RSV is is around all year round, but it really does peak in the winter season.
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  And those things can be very concerning with the wheezing and respiratory exchanges where you are, especially a baby, they could be breathing way too fast, and that could be dangerous for them.
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  So make sure they get evaluated sooner than later.
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  Now, prevention that you can actually do during this season, and I'm going to touch on what tends to help the best.
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  So we are going to talk about um you can't prevent everything, right?
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  You can't prevent not getting sick, but you can at least try and stack the odds in your favor, okay?
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  And so, what's the first thing?
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  Number one is sleep routines.
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  I tell this to families all the time, just because the holidays are around the corner, try to keep the kids on their normal sleep schedule.
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  And kids need a good eight to 10 hours.
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  If they're younger, they may need a little bit more.
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  But this is super important because sleep is so essential to our immune system.
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  It is so essential to getting our circadian rhythm to stay in sync so that we do not throw off our immune system so that we do not throw off the other systems in our body that are really there to help us stay well, stay healthy, and do our day-to-day in the best way possible.
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  So, you know, try to get up with the sun.
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  I know sometimes that's a little more difficult during the winter, but really whenever you can get up with the sun and get outside.
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  I I tell people all the time to try to watch the sunrise, try to ground a little bit.
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  But as soon as you can get outside and get a little bit of that morning light exposure, you will feel so much better, and your immune system will thank you for it later.
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  Protein is super essential.
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  You know, I talk about diet all the time.
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  Diet is really a major cornerstone to our health.
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  If we are not eating well, then we are probably not going to be healthy throughout a very uh bombarding season with viruses and colds and flus and mono and you know, all the things, right?
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  Staph infections, strep infections.
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  These are all things that can bombard us during the winter.
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  And the biggest culprit really is the fact that we let ourselves get run down.
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  And and sleep is number one.
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  Two is we tend not to eat the best things, right?
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  Starting with Halloween, tons of sugar out there, tons of dyes.
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  There's lots of things of that nature that are now creeping into the diet.
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  Um, this also is the time when we start signaling the goodies and the treats, right?
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  You know, Thanksgiving, you have the pecan pie, the pumpkin pie, um, all the different desserts, right?
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  This is the kickoff, and then Christmas, right?
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  Here we go.
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  Sugar cookies, all the different cool cookies with the cookie exchanges and all the um family get togethers and friend get togethers.
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  Usually it's some kind of potluck and there's always dessert.
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  You know, we may not always eat dessert, but during the the holiday season, it is really quite common to have a ton of desserts that you don't normally eat.
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  And that's why it's not uncommon for people to gain about five pounds during the holidays.
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  And that's that's a pretty remarkable number considering it's only a short period of time.
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  So be careful with that.
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  And eating protein, it's gonna help you feel fuller longer.
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  It also will help boost that immune system.
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  Amino acids are your building blocks for your immune system.
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  So that is really, really important.
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  It helps fuel your brain.
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  So kids that are in school, they won't get as much fatigue during school, especially with the weather weather changing and also with the time changes.
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  Shorter days just make you a little more tired.
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  And so if you feed the kids a good, healthy, hearty protein breakfast, it tends to keep their brain pretty steady throughout the day.
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  You know, it's also important for these kids to have a little bit of fat too, like your nut butters and your butter and your cheeses.
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  So don't skimp on that because it is important for your body to use those during the winter months to stay warm and also for other body mechanisms like your immune system.
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  So don't skimp on that either.
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  Hey, really try just to avoid the sugar.
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  I know it sounds awful to say during this time of year, but like I said, the sugar in the desserts are really going to mess us up.
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  You know, it's gonna give you stomach upset, especially if you're not used to it.
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  It does make your brain sluggish as well as your body sluggish.
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  So, what vitamins do kids need most in the winter time?
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  Well, number one, vitamin D.
• 27:59
  We are not outdoors, we have more clothing on.
• 28:03
  You're not getting your vitamin D from the sun.
• 28:06
  So I highly recommend that as soon as it is about to start changing the seasons uh in the fall to start on a vitamin D supplement.
• 28:18
  That has always been my go-to piece of advice every single year in my office.
• 28:24
  Please, please, please take your vitamin D.
• 28:27
  Your vitamin D is so essential to keeping you healthy.
• 28:31
  I stress this over and over again, and I know people think I'm I'm a little bit crazy about it, but really and truly, it is probably the most important vitamin in the winter time to keep up on.
• 28:43
  Number two would be vitamin C and vitamin A.
• 28:46
  They both have characteristics that help fight viruses.
• 28:50
  They also will help with um your mucosal support.
• 28:54
  Vitamin A is very important with mucosal support and also respiratory support and defense from uh viruses and other yuckies that might hit hit you during this time of year.
• 29:06
  So, what foods have vitamin C, vitamin A, and vitamin D.
• 29:10
  Well, the first group of foods is your green leafy vegetables.
• 29:15
  Like every time someone says something to me, I'm like, eat your greens, right?
• 29:19
  Your green leafy vegetables are so so important.
• 29:22
  And especially this time of year.
• 29:24
  And guess what?
• 29:25
  They are very, very prominent during the winter months.
• 29:28
  I mean, that is what a fall garden is.
• 29:31
  It's usually lettuces, and there's a reason for that, right?
• 29:34
  If you think about seasonal harvesting, of course, we don't have that much in the United States anymore, but seasonal harvesting is super important because those seasonal vegetables are what really help people make it through the winter.
• 29:49
  You know, historically speaking, right?
• 29:52
  Citrus, vitamin C, right?
• 29:54
  Citrus.
• 29:54
  So that's your that could be oranges, clementines, uh, lemons, limes, grapefruit.
• 30:00
  Fruit, all of that is just so important with your vitamin C.
• 30:04
  And then berries.
• 30:05
  Berries are antioxidant, just powerhouses, right?
• 30:11
  Those berries are super important for supporting the immune system.
• 30:16
  And also just that antioxidant boost is what those berries give you.
• 30:22
  Carrots.
• 30:23
  Carrots, remember when you were a kid in elementary school and they would slice a carrot and not long ways, but crossway crossways.
• 30:31
  And they would say, What does this carrot look like?
• 30:33
  And they say, Oh, it looks like eye.
• 30:35
  Well, yeah, because carrots support the eyes.
• 30:39
  And that's uh vitamin A.
• 30:41
  And so it is really important for you to eat your carrots.
• 30:44
  Um, they're juicing carrots is really a phenomenal way to kind of master that and get that into your system.
• 30:52
  Sweet potatoes.
• 30:53
  I love sweet potatoes.
• 30:54
  Sweet potatoes are my favorite, and of course, they're a big thing this time of year, right?
• 30:59
  Everyone loves their sweet potato hash.
• 31:01
  So get your sweet potato on.
• 31:04
  If you eat one sweet potato a week, you will get enough vitamin A for that week.
• 31:10
  So it you don't need a whole lot for uh to eat during to eat well and to keep yourself and your system going strong.
• 31:19
  Now, if you have a picky eater, you know, you you really do need to supplement.
• 31:26
  And a lot of times, especially depending on where you live in the country, uh, you may have to supplement vitamin D.
• 31:32
  Like the farther north you are, the less sun you have, and the less sun you have, the less vitamin D.
• 31:37
  It is absolutely essential to do a vitamin D supplement.
• 31:43
  It is even essential in the southern part of the United States.
• 31:47
  We don't get enough sun in the winter.
• 31:51
  So anything that we can do to help would be amazing.
• 31:54
  It just you'd be amazed at how much better you feel.
• 31:57
  And you may also find out that wow, you know, I didn't get sick this year, right?
• 32:01
  If you're one of those people who get sick every single year, why don't you do something different and see if you get either one less frequency of illness or two that if you do get sick that it you get over it faster, quicker, and also um if the symptoms are not nearly as bad as they usually are, super important, okay?
• 32:23
  So I challenge you for that.
• 32:25
  The next thing is your gut health and immunity.
• 32:28
  I I tell people all the time, you know, use probiotics if you you know have um a diet that maybe is not ideal, or you have a job that maybe you're running around and it's really hard for you to do that.
• 32:41
  Use some use some probiotics.
• 32:43
  I'm okay with that.
• 32:44
  I love probiotics, I think it's a really great idea.
• 32:47
  Um, your microbiome is super important to your immune system.
• 32:52
  Your microbiome also kind of dictates how well you are.
• 32:56
  So there are studies that show the microbiome.
• 33:00
  They actually study the microbiome and they can tell and detect just by looking at the microbiome what illness those people have.
• 33:08
  So there is a huge connection between the gut and its microbiome and how healthy you are.
• 33:14
  So some probiotic foods, maybe you want to try some foods.
• 33:17
  Well, the probiotic foods are things like yogurt and kefir, of course, and then any kind of fermented veggies.
• 33:23
  You know, I personally think pickles, kids, most kids will eat a lot of pickles, so you know, pickles are always good, but you can do pickles, you could do fermented vegetables, you could do um, there's there's some products out there on the market that are fermented fruits and vegetables, and you can add that to a smoothie.
• 33:41
  That's a phenomenal source of probiotic food and prebiotic foods.
• 33:45
  Um, fiber, super important.
• 33:48
  Fiber is just a huge, huge asset to the immune system.
• 33:52
  Getting toxin out of the system, it soaks up some toxin, it helps get rid of waste.
• 33:59
  It also um will pull inflamm inflammation into the gut to get rid of it.
• 34:04
  So it is actually an anti-inflammatory.
• 34:06
  Did you know that?
• 34:07
  Um, things that are you know filled with fiber are things like oats and bananas and beans.
• 34:16
  Now, I always tell people bananas, just be careful with bananas.
• 34:19
  Bananas have a ton of starch in them.
• 34:23
  And so when I talk to parents, I'm like, just remember bananas make you fat.
• 34:28
  So you you don't, unless you're a major athlete, you're not gonna get rid of those calories as well as other um using other vegetables or fruit.
• 34:38
  So just be careful on the banana.
• 34:39
  I usually tell parents don't use more than about two bananas a week for a small child.
• 34:44
  I know they love them, but really try to uh limit them as to what they're getting.
• 34:50
  Um, when there's a supplement that um is necessary, you know, especially if you end up getting sick and you're on antibiotics, or if your GI system just isn't what it used to be, you're having some difficulties in the GI department.
• 35:05
  Definitely use a probiotic supplement.
• 35:07
  I think that's a huge, huge thing.
• 35:10
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• 35:21
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• 35:26
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• 35:36
  Nano silver um leaves your body within 24 hours, it does its job and then gets out, it doesn't sit in the system.
• 35:43
  If you use something like um greens 85, you are going to supplement in a quote unquote food, 85 of the percent of the nutrition that we lose in our farming nowadays.
• 35:58
  So that is a great thing to add in the winter months.
• 36:03
  So grab a scoop of that, throw it in your smoothie, drink it, you know, maybe every other day.
• 36:08
  Just kind of see how it works and see how you feel.
• 36:11
  It's gonna help move waste out, it's gonna help reduce inflammation.
• 36:15
  You'll probably feel a lot better because you're gonna get more nutrition into your system and it'll support that gut health, just like we've been talking about.
• 36:23
  Now, in our next segment, we're gonna talk a little bit about allergies and allergy prevention inside the home.
• 36:31
  Here in Southeast Texas, our homes are sealed up pretty well all year round.
• 36:36
  And that's really because of our weather.
• 36:38
  It's generally really, really warm all year round, and we have little pests called mosquitoes all year round.
• 36:46
  So for us, it's a little more difficult for us to air out our houses.
• 36:49
  Um, there's only some choice days that you could do that because of the uh pest issues, but we will deep dive into that.
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  Angie Farella.
• 39:17
  And it is the season to be sneezing.
• 39:20
  That is what we are talking about today.
• 39:23
  And in this break, we are talking about allergies.
• 39:26
  Um, this is the part that you know is very confusing to some people.
• 39:33
  Like, how do we know it's allergy versus a cold?
• 39:36
  And a lot of times we aren't even aware of the allergens that are inside our own home and what may increase the allergic response to the body.
• 39:48
  So the first thing is pretty basic.
• 39:52
  Um, dust mites.
• 39:53
  Okay.
• 39:54
  Dust mites are everywhere.
• 39:55
  They're ubiquitous.
• 39:57
  They um love to live in mattresses and
• 40:00
  Pillows.
• 40:00
  So you know the old adage where people would say, don't go to don't go to sleep with wet hair, because if you do, you're going to wake up sick the next morning.
• 40:10
  Well, it's not necessarily uh true that you're going to be sick the next morning.
• 40:15
  However, dust mites love wet hair.
• 40:19
  So if you go to sleep and lay on a pillow with wet hair, those dust mites are going to go crazy.
• 40:25
  And just that if you are susceptible or have some issues with dust mites, you will wake up very, very stuffy the next morning.
• 40:33
  Also try to reduce how many stuffed animals are on your child's bed.
• 40:38
  If they tend to wake up stuffy, be careful with sealing fans and vents pointing at the children, blowing that dust onto them.
• 40:46
  But if you can reduce you know thick, fluffy blankets and stuffed animals on the bed, your child's going to feel a lot better in the morning.
• 40:56
  Also, there are some allergen prevention covers that you can use, like on pillows and on your mattresses.
• 41:03
  And those actually work really, really well.
• 41:06
  So I would highly recommend you go and grab some of those and put them on so that your allergies stay at bay.
• 41:13
  Also, the humidity, I live in Texas where we cannot escape humidity.
• 41:20
  And so in this part of the country, mold is very problematic.
• 41:26
  So you do want to keep your humidity within your home somewhere between 40 and 50%.
• 41:32
  And that's going to reduce mold growth.
• 41:36
  And it's also going to reduce the irritation that you sometimes will feel within your nasal passages.
• 41:44
  Also, pets, right?
• 41:46
  Pets, you need to keep your pets out of the bedrooms.
• 41:49
  I know they're part of the family, but during this time of year, it's a really bad idea to have pets on the beds, um, pets on couches because again, they um have hair that is that has dander on it, and that dander can really flare someone with allergies.
• 42:07
  So, unless you really, really like to clean your house all the time, vacuuming the couch, vacuum, you know, changing out your bed clothes at least once a week, if not more, if the dog actually sleeps on your bed or the cat sleeps on your bed, you need to do more cleaning than less cleaning, because though that pet dander will actually be a big problem for allergies during the season.
• 42:33
  Now, at home, what are some of the first things?
• 42:36
  If you if you feel yourself getting under the weather, what are what are some of the first things that you can do?
• 42:42
  Well, the first thing, of course, everyone tells you is to rest, right?
• 42:46
  It is the time of year where sometimes our hustle and our bustle really do um get the best of us.
• 42:57
  And when we do that, we wear ourselves out and stress.
• 43:00
  We know what stress does to our immune system, right?
• 43:03
  And so we do have to be real careful and make sure that we rest when we feel something coming on and make sure you hydrate.
• 43:10
  Super important hydration is key.
• 43:13
  You have to wash out the allergens or the viruses or the inflammation.
• 43:18
  And the only way to do that is to get it out of your system by using fluids, whether it is electrolytes or water teas, any of those things will help pull that stuff out and rinse it through your system.
• 43:31
  You can use uh saline nasal spray and and um to try to clear that upper airway for little kids, you can use a suction.
• 43:38
  I tell parents to tend, I I tend to tell parents, please don't suck out too much, especially if you're not seeing like nasal discharge coming out of the nose, don't go in there and try to suck it out because what's happening is that um you may actually cause some trauma to the nose and make it more inflamed and make it more stuffy.
• 43:58
  So I usually tell parents take the saline, squirt it in and just let the kids sneeze it out, cough it out, swallow it, whatever, but don't go after it with a bulb syringe.
• 44:08
  Okay.
• 44:09
  Um, honey really does help cough.
• 44:13
  Honey is an excellent source of vitamin C.
• 44:17
  It's an excellent sort.
• 44:19
  It, you know, it has um allergens in it, you know, like so honey bees, if you are having some allergy symptoms, I tell people all the time, start taking local honey because it's just like getting a mini allergy shot.
• 44:33
  What you are doing is you're introducing in very, very small quantities some of the plants that may be giving you trouble during allergy season.
• 44:41
  And so if you take something as small as a quarter of a teaspoon, like mix it in some tea and just take that every single day.
• 44:49
  You will definitely see an improvement in your allergies after about six to nine months.
• 44:54
  Now it's not it's not something quick cure, it's great, it's great for sore throats and things like that, but it's not going to help your allergies right away, but you will see a difference over the long term.
• 45:05
  The other thing that I use a lot is um when you are talking about fever, I tell parents all the time, please try not to treat fever if it's 102 or under if the child is not super uncomfortable.
• 45:23
  You know, fever is a good thing.
• 45:25
  Fever helps your body fight things off.
• 45:29
  I think in our country, we're a little bit too anxious to reduce fever.
• 45:33
  Everyone gets really, really nervous over fever.
• 45:36
  And I just want to give you a little bit of reassurance that a little bit of fever is okay.
• 45:42
  It's really important to help mobilize the body to start taking care of things or getting rid of an infectious agent that is really starting to plague your system.
• 45:55
  It just does a whole lot.
• 45:58
  You know, it triggers a lot of different um cascades in your body so that you can fight things off.
• 46:05
  And I always tell people I worry a lot more about a kid who's feeling terrible and doesn't have fever than a kid that has fever and is running around.
• 46:13
  That's just kind of my rule of thumb.
• 46:16
  Now, I just also want you to understand that you don't ignore your child, right?
• 46:22
  You want to treat how the child feels, not just a number.
• 46:26
  So parents ask me all the time, what number should I worry about?
• 46:29
  And I said, Well, it depends.
• 46:31
  And when I say it depends, that doesn't go over well usually, but it does depend.
• 46:36
  Like if a child has a 102 fever and they're running around playing, do you have to worry about that?
• 46:41
  No, not so much.
• 46:42
  If you have a kiddo that's 103 and crying and irritable and fussy, should you try to reduce the fever?
• 46:49
  Absolutely.
• 46:49
  That child is miserable.
• 46:51
  So, you know, the first thing I tell people to do is put the baby in a lukewarm bath.
• 46:56
  That will help dissipate heat through the water.
• 46:59
  And it also helps the kid feel better.
• 47:02
  You know, aches and pains tend to resolve when they are submerged in some water.
• 47:07
  So use a bath to your advantage.
• 47:09
  You could put Epsom salt in there, you can put some baking soda in there, that also will help with achy muscles and it will also help with just overall tiredness of your muscles and your body.
• 47:21
  So do that the next time you get sick, throw a little bit of that in your bath water and see how you feel.
• 47:27
  The other thing too is um, you know, for cough.
• 47:30
  What can we do for cough?
• 47:32
  Well, I first want to let you know that coughs can last two to three weeks.
• 47:36
  Now, if you happen to pick up, and adults do this all the time, all the time.
• 47:41
  If you happen to pick up pertusses as an adult, you don't get super sick, but you will get this annoying cough for 90 days.
• 47:52
  The other name for protussis is the 90-day cough, which means you will cough for about three months.
• 47:59
  And once you are out of what we call the prodromal period, which is about the first two weeks, which by then, you know, you most of the time you don't even realize that you're coughing.
• 48:09
  Most of the time you don't feel bad.
• 48:10
  So you just kind of let it go, let it go, let it go.
• 48:13
  Outside of that two to three weeks, treating protests is pretty useless.
• 48:18
  Um, the the symptoms, especially the cough is going to linger no matter what you do.
• 48:24
  Now, that's not to say you can't try it.
• 48:26
  I have treated protestus before late in the phase of illness.
• 48:32
  And sometimes it does help a little bit, shortens it a little bit.
• 48:35
  But honestly, once it starts, it's gonna keep going.
• 48:39
  And by the way, it doesn't matter if you're vaccinated or not.
• 48:42
  Um, pertussis just happens.
• 48:44
  It's ubiquitous in our society.
• 48:47
  And of course, we want to protect our little ones.
• 48:49
  So pretussis can be a lot more dangerous.
• 48:51
  That's whooping cough in a smaller child or in a child that has more propensity to wheeze or have difficulty um with breathing or respiratory issues.
• 49:02
  So you do want to do your due diligence and really try to keep those children away from people that may have been coughing for a while just because the spread of pertusses is is pretty quick.
• 49:15
  And once it starts, it tends to just keep on going.
• 49:18
  So do what you can to try to prevent that from happening.
• 49:23
  But you know, if you suspect protests or you suspect someone has exposed your small child, make sure you talk to your health care provider.
• 49:32
  Um, I really try to not use over-the-counter cough and cold medications.
• 49:39
  Now, here's a rule of thumb.
• 49:41
  Cough and cold medications do help.
• 49:43
  Okay.
• 49:44
  I tell people often if you're going to use a cough and cold remedy, please do not have a fever medication in that medication.
• 49:56
  So, in other words, keep your ibuprofen.
• 50:00
  An acetaminophen out of your cold and cough medication.
• 50:05
  So do your Tylenol and Motrin separate from things that are like antihistamines, um, antitussives, which means you know, a cough suppressant, or even a um one that helps clear some of the fluid and phlegm out of your throat.
• 50:25
  Those those are all fine to use and to try, but do not use them long term.
• 50:30
  And also make sure that you don't have acetaminophin or ibuprofen in those products that you buy over the counter because it can mask symptoms and you know, you can get into some serious trouble if you're not really paying attention to what is going into your child, especially.
• 50:48
  Um, adults, you know, a lot of adults love theraplu.
• 50:52
  That's all fine and good.
• 50:53
  Again, a lot of the basic stuff that I talked about in the first two segments vitamin D, vitamin C, vitamin A, quercetin, um, local honey, those are all great regimens to those illnesses.
• 51:08
  Um, doing mouthwashes.
• 51:11
  I'm a real big proponent of people doing mouthwash when they don't feel good.
• 51:18
  I think that's really important because a lot of the germs will settle in your mouth and you don't even realize it.
• 51:23
  Plus, you have the post nasal drip that's going into the back of your throat.
• 51:27
  And every time you cough, you're bringing it up to the forefront of your mouth.
• 51:30
  And those germs will just propagate inside your mouth.
• 51:33
  So doing uh more and more of the mouthwashes will keep your mouth clean.
• 51:38
  It'll make you feel a whole lot better.
• 51:39
  You're gonna kill off some of those germs.
• 51:41
  You're gonna reduce some of the inflammation inside your mouth and and posterior pharynx, which is kind of like the back of your mouth where your throat starts, and it may actually help you feel a whole lot better.
• 51:54
  Gargles uh for little kids are just difficult to do.
• 51:59
  They do have lots of great sprays, like silver spray.
• 52:02
  Silver spray in the mouth really helps kill um off organisms that may be a proponent of a sore throat.
• 52:09
  So I tell parents all the time, hey, try it, it's not gonna hurt.
• 52:14
  The other thing that I um tell a lot of my parents, especially because many of them have small children at home or they're you know, there's multiple children in the home, is if the mom is a breastfeeding mom, use her breast milk.
• 52:26
  Mom's breast milk is phenomenal because it's chock full of immune boosting properties.
• 52:32
  And so it is not uncommon for me to tell moms of newborns that have older children that are sick.
• 52:38
  Hey, use your milk with those kids too, because that's going to help them get better faster.
• 52:43
  Um, I always tell my parents keep a few ounces in the back of your freezer forever and ever in case of emergency.
• 52:50
  So that's that's kind of what I always what I always um propose to my moms.
• 52:56
  And it does work, it works all the time without too many issues.
• 53:01
  So, you know, how do we manage winter allergies or viral illnesses?
• 53:06
  How do we do this?
• 53:07
  Look, rules of thumb.
• 53:09
  If there's no fever, but there's itchy eyes and clear drainage, that most likely is allergies, and you may need to do a couple of things.
• 53:18
  One is try to make sure your environment is as clean as possible.
• 53:23
  That means remove dust.
• 53:25
  That means to remove pets and pet dander.
• 53:28
  That also means to, if you if you are susceptible to something that is outside, to really use something as a barrier within the nose.
• 53:37
  I am I like to use um silver in the nose to help with um blocking some of the allergens that you may be breathing in.
• 53:46
  Um, I also like the honey, because I think that does work on a daily.
• 53:52
  Um, I also tell people look, if you're miserable, use an antihistamine.
• 53:56
  It is a okay.
• 53:57
  You're not going to do any harm using some zyrtech, claritin, benadryl, so Luranidine, uh, surtiline, and uh some diphenhydramine.
• 54:08
  Any of those work really, really well on drying up the clear nasal drainage that is that may be very annoying and causing a hacky cough.
• 54:17
  Steroid sprays for um older kids with chronic stuffiness work really, really well.
• 54:23
  You can use that, it's totally fine.
• 54:25
  Using saline sprays also work fine.
• 54:28
  There's also antihistamine sprays that you can use in the nose that um I think might be a little safer to use, other than steroids.
• 54:35
  Um steroids, you want to really save steroids for the super stuffy, barely could breathe out of your nose types of situations as much as possible because steroids can decrease your immune system.
• 54:48
  And so, of course, when you're sick, the last thing you want to do is make your immune system even worse.
• 54:54
  And that is exactly what steroids do.
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  So I do try to avoid steroids at all costs.
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  For kids that are greater than a year of age, get that honey in.
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  It is so good for them.
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  They will feel wonderful with that.
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  Also, you know, we're gonna talk a little bit about you know the red flags.
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  What red flags do you need to watch out for?
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  Okay, number one, any kind of trouble breathing.
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  If the breathing is very fast, if you can see every single rib every time the child takes a breath in, or if there's a weird noise, whether they're breathing in or out, um, a wheeze is a high-pitched whistle that you can hear on the way in as well.
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  Sometimes you'll hear um something called strider.
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  Sometimes you'll hear you won't hear a noise, but you'll hear the child kind of grunt at the end of an inspiration.
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  That is bad news.
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  That is where you need to bring your child in for evaluation as quickly as possible, especially if it is being accompanied by bluish lips or like mottled skin.
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  Um, dehydration is super important to prevent.
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  You know, so if you notice that your child hasn't been peeing very well, um, has a dry mouth, there's no tears when they cry, or they're even too sleepy to drink something for you, that is usually dehydration that needs to be addressed very, very quickly.
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  A high or persistent fever.
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  Now, remember I told you earlier that, you know, if you're not getting significantly better on day four to five, and that fever is persisting or getting worse, it is time to go in and get evaluated.
• 56:39
  Um, or if that fever, if you if you seem to have gotten better for a day or two and then you got worse, that's another reason to go and get evaluated.
• 56:50
  Any fever in an infant under the age of three months of um of age or younger is always time for an evaluation.
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  So it's just a good idea for infants to be evaluated sooner than later.
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  Um, even if there is an exposure to someone that has, you know, a viral infection.
• 57:10
  Well, I want to thank y'all tonight.
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  Thank you so much for being with me.
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  I hope you enjoyed this episode of Tis the Season to Be Sneezing.
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  This is Dr.
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  Angie Farella.
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  You have an awesome holiday season, and we'll talk soon.
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  Take care.