What organ can make up
to 15% of our body weight,
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and is our largest organ?
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Dr. Marcum,
explains after the break.
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I'm Dr. James Marcum, are
you interested in discovering
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the reason why?
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Do you want solutions to
your health care problem?
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Are you tired of
taking medications?
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Well, you're about to be given
"The Ultimate Prescription"
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We hear a lot about sun
products that promise to make us
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look younger and better,
but the skin serves a much
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bigger purpose.
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Dr. Marcum, why is
the skin so important?
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Well Nick, it does
lots of great things.
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The skin not only does it
make us look a certain way,
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but it helps protect us
from foreign objects... Right
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It serves as a
temperature regulator.
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It helps keep us at
a certain temperature.
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Helps to insulate
us. Right insulate us.
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So it does a lot more
than just make us look good,
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and there's a lot
more to it than sunscreen.
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And, a lot of people
look at their skin and they're
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concerned about it, but a
lot of people don't realize
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that the skin does things
that are much more important.
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And also, the
skin can be a sign...
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You know, by looking at the
skin you can tell maybe if you
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have serious diseases. Really?
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You know, certain diseases
are manifested as a rash.
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One of the ones that we
see a lot is called "lupus."
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That has a rash
that's on the face.
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There are other rashes that go
with certain medical conditions,
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so the skin might
be a clue to that.
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The skin also serves as a
general look at people's health.
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Have you ever looked at someone
and say, "Man, you look pale,
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you don't look so
good." Right, right
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Maybe it could be a sign
that someone has a infection.
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Maybe the blood supply
in the body is not so good,
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so the skin shows up that.
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So it can be a very
important clue to a physician
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that maybe things
aren't going so well. Right
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You know, the most common
skin condition that people
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probably see now is cancer.
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So it's very important
and there are different
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types of skin cancers and
we noticed discoloration on
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the skin... of course,
the one that's the most scary
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is one called "melanoma." Right
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And if that's missed, a person
can get very, very sick quickly.
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We know that people
that don't take care of their
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skin when they're
younger, they burn a lot.
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That damages the
pigment of the skin,
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and it can damage it over time
and that can create problems
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as we get older in life.
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So the skin has many different
things that goes on with it.
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There are parts of
the skin that sweat,
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so that's a very
important thing to sweat.
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There are parts of
the skin that don't sweat
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including the lips... the
lips don't sweat very much,
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and the nail beds...
the nail beds don't sweat.
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But the other part sweats
where we get rid of wastes.
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So waste can not only
come into the body, damages,
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but we also get rid of waste
and toxins through our skin.
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So we think of - "Well
how do we get rid of waste?"
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Well, through the
kidneys we get rid of wastes,
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but also through our skin.
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Have you ever heard the term,
"sweat it out?" Yeah sure have!
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Well actually,
sweating is a good thing to do
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as long as you replace
it because you can sweat out
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some of the toxins in the body.
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So the skin does a lot
of good things for us, Nick,
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and we're going to answer
some questions that people had
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regarding the skin, but
first, we've been building
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our first aid kit. That's right
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And we've added a
lot of good things to it,
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and we want everyone
at home to have a good
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first aid kit or at least
to have some important things
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that they can add to it.
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You know, this
might sound goofy,
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but I give gifts as first
aid stockings. Oh yeah, sure!
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So people can put in their first
aid kit if they ever need it.
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Now we're hoping no one
ever needs a first aid kit,
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but we have some
items here that you might
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want to put in
your first aid kit.
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Can you show
everyone what that one is? Yes
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So here we have an icepack and
this is something that's used
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on the skin and when is the
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appropriate time
to use it, Dr. Marcum?
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Well, what an icepack
does is - it's great when
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there's an acute injury. Okay
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When there's an acute
injury, the body usually swells.
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And that swelling process,
that inflammatory process
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to an area can sometimes
cause pain and, of course,
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sometimes if it's down
on a joint like an ankle,
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it can lead to immobility,
so those things are good.
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So if you have a cold pack,
that might help with the pain...
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what it does is it actually
constricts blood vessels
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so you don't get quite as
much inflammation in the area,
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and it can keep the
temperature down a little bit.
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So that's one thing
the cold pack is good,
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and if you've hurt
yourself in an injury. Yeah
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I've seen cold packs
occasionally used for people
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that have extreme
fevers... have you ever seen
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a person with a fever?
Well, what do they want to do?
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They want to cool
themselves down. Yeah
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And some people
take Tylenol for fevers.
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Some people put rags on
their head, have you seen that?
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Some people have cold
packs of certain duration.
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Well why is that important?
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Well, a little bit of a
fever is good because it helps
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kill the offending agent whether
it be a bacteria or a fungus.
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But high temperatures over
long periods of time raises
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the chance of
you having a seizure.
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The brain malfunctions,
so we don't want super, super
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high fevers for long
periods of time. Right
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So in the hospitals, I don't
know if you've ever seen this,
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sometimes we try to bring
someone's temperature down...
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In the heart-world, if a
person has had a cardiac arrest,
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one of the things we do
is we induce hypothermia
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or low temperature. Okay
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We bring down the temperature
because when the temperature
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again is up for a
prolonged periods of time,
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that damages the body
even further. Sure yeah
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That's one of the
things we do to help
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possibly limit
damage to the brain.
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So these are all
little things that we can do
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to help protect the body and
this is something that's not a
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bad idea because if
you're out in the woods,
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how do you get cold quick? Right
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Of course you can put some
water on it and blow on it...
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that will help or
you can use a cold pack
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and really get it
down really quicker.
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And this is a chemical
activated pack so you don't
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have to pull it
out of the freezer,
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you just take it with
you wherever and activate it
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when you need it. Yep
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So it works really
quick and I would recommend
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it mainly for things
like sprained ankles,
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things of that nature. Okay
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Now we've got another
item here - what is this?
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Well I wanted to bring
since we're talking about
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the skin today...
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There are many different
skin products out there,
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and this is what I
call a steroid cream,
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and there are different
types of steroid creams.
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This is one that's a little
more potent than the others,
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and they usually have a steroid
in it - it's either 1% or 0.5%
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of a different steroid.
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One of the most common steroids
is called "hydrocortisone."
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Now topical steroids - okay,
you want to use these again
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for short periods of
time to get you over the hump
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of the offending agent. Right
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It's very useful for things
that are really irritating
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to the skin that
causes inflammation, okay,
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for a short period of time.
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It might be good for a
rash or something that's really
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irritating - a bug bite
or something that causes
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lots of
inflammation this might help.
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But I just wanted
to bring this out,
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but there are all sorts of
other creams that you can add
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to help your skin.
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There are creams
with menthol in it...
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that's another natural healer.
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There are different
things that will help in
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bug bites and there
is Benadryl type creams,
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that are sort of
an antihistamine.
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And if you go, when you
make your first aid kit,
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if you go to the skin care
products and read them all,
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and go on the internet and
read about all the different
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skin care, it's
probably good to have one or two
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products for your skin that
you can help with inflammation
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in an emergency that
give you help with itching
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in an emergency that
can help sort of settle down
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all the discomfort that
you get when you might have a
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skin irritation, a
bug bite, when you're out
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and have an irritant on you.
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I know poison ivy is a
real irritant for people...
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One that people used for years,
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some people take it
with steroids on it.
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Some people use
these anti-itch medicines
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with Caladryl lotions
that they use. Right, yeah
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There's also a special medicine
out there that they can use
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for poison ivy - if
you put it on right away,
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it helps pull the poisons
out, that's also very valuable.
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These are all very
valuable things that we can
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put in our first aid
because that's one of the most
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common problems that people
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get as they get into problems
with their skin. Right, right
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I know when I was a
kid, I had poison ivy
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that got on my face
and it just swelled up
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really, really big
and it was a real problem.
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Well I'm very
allergic to poison ivy.
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In fact, if I just... you
know, but I had a friend that
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breathed poison ivy
and I didn't know this,
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but you can get
poison ivy in your lungs,
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and it causes
inflammation in your lungs.
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They were
burning poison ivy leaves
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and he actually smelled it.
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So a lot of people...
you know if I have a bad case
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of poison ivy I have to
take systemic pills steroids
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to get me over that hump...
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But the best thing for
me is to avoid it. Right
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Stay away from the thing that
causes that irritating reaction.
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And a lot of people are allergic
to different types of plants.
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I have other people that are not
even bothered by that at all,
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so that's something important.
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So these are good things
to have in our first aid kit
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to help protect our skin, Nick.
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Well that's some good advice.
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We've got a number
of questions that have
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at: heartwiseministries.org
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