Medical Topics from Dr. Patrick O’Connell
Avoid Heat Exhaustion!
Avoid Heat Exhaustion! Got an outdoor project planned this weekend? Well, how are you going to prevent heat exhaustion? It’s going to be 97 degrees this weekend! Stay tuned for more info. The first year that I was married and was a first-time homeowner, I needed to stain the deck of the house. I think it was the Fourth of July or some other holiday that summer, and [...]
Gluten Made Simple
Gluten Made Simple Is my peanut butter and jelly sandwich gluten-free, and does that matter? What's the deal with gluten anyway? So what is the deal with gluten? You know, you look at the restaurant menu and things are labeled as gluten-free and the question is, is gluten bad or what's the story with this? Do I need to be worried about gluten? Do I need to avoid gluten? So here's [...]
Exercise: How much to do?
Exercise: How much to do? Did you see on WRAL about a week and a half ago that Winston-Salem was rated the 18th most overweight city in America? I grew up about 25 minutes from Winston-Salem, and I thought, "This is almost my hometown and it's number 18 in America in terms of being overweight." I decided to say something about exercise in today's video. Today's message is on exercise, and [...]
Drinks to Rehydrate from that Stomach Bug!
Stomach Bugs: Rehydration Drinks, and How to Reduce Transmission! Are you tired of every medical news story being about the flu? Let's talk about something different: stomach bugs. Last weekend as I was cleaning my son's barf out of the floor mats in the car, I thought, "There is a community outbreak going around and this is a timely topic." The symptoms that you can get with a stomach bug are [...]
A Cold… or the Flu? When to Call Your Doctor?
A Cold…or the Flu? How do you know if the sore throat and the runny nose and the cough that you're coming down with is a cold or if it might be the flu? Because starting antiviral medication for the flu early can be helpful, it's an important question. When researchers have looked at this question, it turns out there's a couple of things that are useful predictors. Fast onset of [...]