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Speaker 1: Hello, this is the Itchy and BITCHI Podcast because being

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itchy is bitchy and our medical system sucks. I'm doctor

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Keith Nolica, a vetinary allergist and dermatologist.

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Speaker 2: And I'm Stephen Miller, a doctor of nursing practice and

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a Q Care nurse practitioner.

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welcome back and I hope this finds you well. How

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are you doing, Steven.

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Speaker 2: I'm great, excellent.

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Speaker 1: Okay, this is a Clinic Crawl episode and this is

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where each of us will tell you one of the

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stories of the most interesting crazy dramas from our week

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in clinics or with friends. Are you ready? Yeah? Okay,

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you want to go first, and you want me to,

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I'll go first. Okay, what you.

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Speaker 2: Got for us? Yeah, So we had a social gathering

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and an interesting topic evolved and there was apparently some

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written article on microplastics, and the gentleman in the room

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all became very concerned about microplastics entering their penis, and so.

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Speaker 1: That's what the article was about. Yeah, okay, because they

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can be in the placenta and the brain and kidney.

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But they were worried about their manjunk.

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Speaker 2: The man jun became an and so we had a

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lively conversation which I think we'll probably come up in

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a later episode here, but just kind of interesting. They

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were very worried about the impact of microplastics on their erectile.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I actually now remember this this, So this was

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not just like a casual comment. This was like a

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three hour discussion about the effects of microplastic on their penis.

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And they didn't mention placentas or ovaries. There's twenty times

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more microplastics in your brain than in any other organ

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that we have, more than the liver and kidney. But

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why do you think they were so focused on their manjunk? Well,

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was a man jump?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean they just kept going on, I don't

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want to steer it around.

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Speaker 1: And around, and they were really worried about So, to

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our knowledge, microplastic we have very few studies, very small evidence.

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We're finding them everywhere and animals that is actually where

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this started with marine animals. A fish and whales and

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dolphins have microplastics, and then now pretty much we're finding

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them everywhere including human body tissue. So do we know

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that they're actually causing problems at this point?

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Speaker 2: No, no, And there's microplastics and nanoplastics and so we'll

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talk more about that in a later episode, but we

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don't know the impact.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, so it's just too new of a science.

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You know, the thought of having plastic in your body

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is certainly cringe worthy. But just because there's correlation with

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plastic in your body doesn't mean that it's causing disease

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or problems. It may turn out that it very well does,

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but certainly the time to panic is not right now.

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And I would have enjoyed our wine and evening much

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more if it didn't focus around three hour discussion of

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microplastics in your penis.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, so I think our gentlemen friends were very

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concerned about the the they're junk and and that's kind

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of typical. I mean, I think, not stereotype being stereotype.

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We're going to take a quick break.

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Speaker 1: And then I'll tell you my my funny clinical drama story. Okay,

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we're back, and it turns out that both of our

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stories are not about the hospital or the clinic. So

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my story is a dog related I'm a veterinarian, so

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that kind of is fitting. So one of our other friends,

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not so close friends and not overwine, but they were

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maybe not so very We're not quite sure the motivations.

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But it turns out that the male couple, so it's

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a straight man woman marriage, and he has shingles and

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the wife friends isolated him in the bedroom for a

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whole weekend of quarantine because she was really really worried

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that he would give shingles to the dog. So it

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turns out that dogs don't really get shingles, and all

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animals do get herpes virus, but every species has their

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own herpes virus, so the human herpes virus doesn't really

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switch over into dogs. So this poor gentleman friend was

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isolated for a whole weekend to protect the dog which

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is great. We love our dogs and like to protect him.

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But in the future, and for those listening, if you

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have shingles, you don't really need to worry about give

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it to the dog.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's a valid question or a valid

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concern among people because people now have pets, pets are

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part of their family. And when you have some bacterial infection,

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which some do cross between species, like MRSA.

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Speaker 1: Rare though, so very interestingly, especially dogs. Really dog bugs

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like to stay with dogs and people bugs like to

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stay with people. So MRSA is a big crisis on

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the human side and dogs can't get it. But it's

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really pretty rare in dogs.

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Speaker 2: But in viruses, viruses are totally different.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so dogs actually don't get a lot of viruses. Interesting,

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so they don't really have like there's no Aige type virus.

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Cats do, but we haven't recognized that in dogs.

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Speaker 2: And they're not carriers, right, yeah, not really, so like

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on their fur coat, you know how, like you know

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how like when people have infection or they're bleaching their countertops,

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well don't please, don't bleach your dog.

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Speaker 1: But I'm just saying so interestingly. You can make up

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a story that so with poison ivy. Dogs don't really

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get poison ivy there for protects them very well, but

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they can rub on the poison ivy and bring the

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resinant people who then can contact it as a fomite.

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That's something that transfers contagious materials or chemicals or something

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from one place to another. So that could happen. So

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if the person, potentially you make up a big story,

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that would be extremely unlikely. But if they had a

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herpetic blister from the shingles and it ruptured and the

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blistered juice got on the dog and then the dog

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went and rolled on you, maybe that could transfer. But

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that's pretty pretty extraordinary. So I would suggest that you know,

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maybe wash your hands, you know, take some hygiene measures contacts. Yeah,

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but maybe you love on your husband a little bit

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more than locking them up in the bedroom. So anyway,

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so that's my story. Anything to add of.

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Speaker 2: Before we go dot No, I think I think that's

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an interesting human animal intersection that I think is worthy

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of discussion.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, and if you want to hear more, please

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send us emails. We love to hear from you, guys,

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ask at itchnot dot com. Thank you for listening. Stay

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well and goodbye. Come back next week for another episode.

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Speaker 2: Bye bye.

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