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Your Good Health: Try ablation of nasal nerves only if meds don't work

Your Good Health: Try ablation of nasal nerves only if meds don't work

Any relatively new treatment has the potential for undiscovered side effects that show up only after many people have used it for a prolonged period of time
Your Good Health: Turmeric can increase risk in patients with blood disorders

Your Good Health: Turmeric can increase risk in patients with blood disorders

Unfortunately, any medical intervention runs the risk of causing an untoward effect
Your Good Health: Tylenol's risk to hearing is low

Your Good Health: Tylenol's risk to hearing is low

Only about 2% of people taking these drugs at high levels for a prolonged period will develop hearing loss due to the medication
Your Good Health: Air bubble in IV too small to cause harm

Your Good Health: Air bubble in IV too small to cause harm

Minimum amount of air that is likely to cause symptoms is a hundred times what you'd find in an IV tube
Your Good Health: Cholesterol, LDL not only factors in statin decision

Your Good Health: Cholesterol, LDL not only factors in statin decision

The benefit of a statin depends on how high the underlying risk is for the person
Your Good Health: Persistent symptoms more common in COVID compared to flu

Your Good Health: Persistent symptoms more common in COVID compared to flu

It may be that people are just more attuned to persistent symptoms than they were after other infections in the days before the pandemic
Your Good Health: Reaction to corn, oats could be an allergy

Your Good Health: Reaction to corn, oats could be an allergy

Food allergies have highly variable symptoms, depending on the person and the food they are allergic to
Your Good Health: No evidence that oxalates increase blood pressure

Your Good Health: No evidence that oxalates increase blood pressure

A low oxalate diet is often recommended in people with a history of calcium oxalate stones
Your Good Health: Antiestrogen drugs rarely used to treat erectile dysfunction

Your Good Health: Antiestrogen drugs rarely used to treat erectile dysfunction

Dear Dr. Roach: I have a bad case of erectile dysfunction. I am 80 years old and otherwise in good health. I have received an ad in the mail that says it is not a lack of testosterone, but rather too much estrogen in the body.
Your Good Health: Factor V Leiden has no effect on heart health

Your Good Health: Factor V Leiden has no effect on heart health

People with this mutation are at higher risk for abnormal blood clotting, such as a deep venous thrombosis or blood clots in the lung (pulmonary embolism)