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Your Good Health: Nasal steroids don't cause rebound symptoms

Your Good Health: Nasal steroids don't cause rebound symptoms

Topical steroids like Flonase take about a week to start working
Your Good Health: Avoiding triggers best treatment for cyclic vomiting

Your Good Health: Avoiding triggers best treatment for cyclic vomiting

CVS seems to be related to migraine, and the treatment strategy is similar: avoid triggers when possible
Your Good Health: Testoterone therapy may be low risk if PSA level zero

Your Good Health: Testoterone therapy may be low risk if PSA level zero

In men who have had successful treatment for prostate cancer, whether by surgery or radiation, testosterone replacement therapy can be considered
Your Good Health: COVID infection can trigger autoimmune disease

Your Good Health: COVID infection can trigger autoimmune disease

There are reports of dramatically increased rates of autoimmune disease, including Sjogren鈥檚 syndrome
Your Good Health: Stress of surgery can cause temporary hair loss

Your Good Health: Stress of surgery can cause temporary hair loss

Surgery and the medical condition necessitating surgery are common causes of telogen effluvium
Your Good Health: Estradiol cream can help prevent urine infections

Your Good Health: Estradiol cream can help prevent urine infections

Dear Dr. Roach: I have chronic urinary tract infections. I am 79 and suffer from it often. I frequently go to the bathroom five to six times per night. If I鈥檓 lucky, I鈥檒l get two or three hours of sleep.
Your Good Health: Low-risk patients with high CRP don't need statin

Your Good Health: Low-risk patients with high CRP don't need statin

People who are otherwise at low risk for heart disease also have low risk from just an elevated CRP, and thus get little benefit from a statin drug.
Your Good Health: Estrogen risky for ER-positive cancer survivor

Your Good Health: Estrogen risky for ER-positive cancer survivor

Estrogen products are used with extreme caution or not at all in people with a history of an ER positive cancer
Your Good Health: To avoid a faint or fall, sit for a minute after lying, then get up

Your Good Health: To avoid a faint or fall, sit for a minute after lying, then get up

We think of fainting, perhaps based off of media depictions, as a condition of young people, but the older you are, the more likely you are to faint.
Your Good Health: Double tinnitus does not indicate brain damage

Your Good Health: Double tinnitus does not indicate brain damage

Tinnitus with two different frequencies (tones or pitches) is a rare condition