Speaker 1: Hello, this is the Itchy and BITCHI Podcast because being
itchy is bitchy and our medical system sucks. I'm doctor
Keith Nolica, a vetinary allergist and dermatologist.
Speaker 2: And I'm Stephen Miller, a doctor of nursing practice and
a Q Care nurse practitioner.
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welcome back and I hope this finds you well. How
are you doing, Steven.
Speaker 2: I'm great, excellent.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is a Clinic Crawl episode and this is
where each of us will tell you one of the
stories of the most interesting crazy dramas from our week
in clinics or with friends. Are you ready? Yeah? Okay,
you want to go first, and you want me to,
I'll go first. Okay, what you.
Speaker 2: Got for us? Yeah, So we had a social gathering
and an interesting topic evolved and there was apparently some
written article on microplastics, and the gentleman in the room
all became very concerned about microplastics entering their penis, and so.
Speaker 1: That's what the article was about. Yeah, okay, because they
can be in the placenta and the brain and kidney.
But they were worried about their manjunk.
Speaker 2: The man jun became an and so we had a
lively conversation which I think we'll probably come up in
a later episode here, but just kind of interesting. They
were very worried about the impact of microplastics on their erectile.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I actually now remember this this, So this was
not just like a casual comment. This was like a
three hour discussion about the effects of microplastic on their penis.
And they didn't mention placentas or ovaries. There's twenty times
more microplastics in your brain than in any other organ
that we have, more than the liver and kidney. But
why do you think they were so focused on their manjunk? Well,
was a man jump?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean they just kept going on, I don't
want to steer it around.
Speaker 1: And around, and they were really worried about So, to
our knowledge, microplastic we have very few studies, very small evidence.
We're finding them everywhere and animals that is actually where
this started with marine animals. A fish and whales and
dolphins have microplastics, and then now pretty much we're finding
them everywhere including human body tissue. So do we know
that they're actually causing problems at this point?
Speaker 2: No, no, And there's microplastics and nanoplastics and so we'll
talk more about that in a later episode, but we
don't know the impact.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so it's just too new of a science.
You know, the thought of having plastic in your body
is certainly cringe worthy. But just because there's correlation with
plastic in your body doesn't mean that it's causing disease
or problems. It may turn out that it very well does,
but certainly the time to panic is not right now.
And I would have enjoyed our wine and evening much
more if it didn't focus around three hour discussion of
microplastics in your penis.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so I think our gentlemen friends were very
concerned about the the they're junk and and that's kind
of typical. I mean, I think, not stereotype being stereotype.
We're going to take a quick break.
Speaker 1: And then I'll tell you my my funny clinical drama story. Okay,
we're back, and it turns out that both of our
stories are not about the hospital or the clinic. So
my story is a dog related I'm a veterinarian, so
that kind of is fitting. So one of our other friends,
not so close friends and not overwine, but they were
maybe not so very We're not quite sure the motivations.
But it turns out that the male couple, so it's
a straight man woman marriage, and he has shingles and
the wife friends isolated him in the bedroom for a
whole weekend of quarantine because she was really really worried
that he would give shingles to the dog. So it
turns out that dogs don't really get shingles, and all
animals do get herpes virus, but every species has their
own herpes virus, so the human herpes virus doesn't really
switch over into dogs. So this poor gentleman friend was
isolated for a whole weekend to protect the dog which
is great. We love our dogs and like to protect him.
But in the future, and for those listening, if you
have shingles, you don't really need to worry about give
it to the dog.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's a valid question or a valid
concern among people because people now have pets, pets are
part of their family. And when you have some bacterial infection,
which some do cross between species, like MRSA.
Speaker 1: Rare though, so very interestingly, especially dogs. Really dog bugs
like to stay with dogs and people bugs like to
stay with people. So MRSA is a big crisis on
the human side and dogs can't get it. But it's
really pretty rare in dogs.
Speaker 2: But in viruses, viruses are totally different.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so dogs actually don't get a lot of viruses. Interesting,
so they don't really have like there's no Aige type virus.
Cats do, but we haven't recognized that in dogs.
Speaker 2: And they're not carriers, right, yeah, not really, so like
on their fur coat, you know how, like you know
how like when people have infection or they're bleaching their countertops,
well don't please, don't bleach your dog.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying so interestingly. You can make up
a story that so with poison ivy. Dogs don't really
get poison ivy there for protects them very well, but
they can rub on the poison ivy and bring the
resinant people who then can contact it as a fomite.
That's something that transfers contagious materials or chemicals or something
from one place to another. So that could happen. So
if the person, potentially you make up a big story,
that would be extremely unlikely. But if they had a
herpetic blister from the shingles and it ruptured and the
blistered juice got on the dog and then the dog
went and rolled on you, maybe that could transfer. But
that's pretty pretty extraordinary. So I would suggest that you know,
maybe wash your hands, you know, take some hygiene measures contacts. Yeah,
but maybe you love on your husband a little bit
more than locking them up in the bedroom. So anyway,
so that's my story. Anything to add of.
Speaker 2: Before we go dot No, I think I think that's
an interesting human animal intersection that I think is worthy
of discussion.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and if you want to hear more, please
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