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We don't often
think of pain in the skin
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until we get a sunburn
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or maybe we come in contact
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with an
irritant like poison ivy.
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But there are
number of other things
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we should watch out for
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as Dr. Marcum
explains in just a moment.
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I'm Dr. James Marcum.
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Are you interested in
discovering the reason why?
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You want solutions to
your healthcare problems.
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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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Did you know that the skin
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is the largest
organ of the human body,
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often totaling up
to 20 square feet?
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And our skin plays a vital role
in protecting us from microbes,
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regulating body temperature
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and permeating sensations
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of touch, heat and cold.
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When you feel
pain from your skin,
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it's important to know
what's causing the pain
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which is why that's our
topic on today's program.
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Dr. Marcum,
welcome to the program
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and what do we need to
know about pain on the skin?
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Well, you know, first I
want to back up a little bit
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when we talk
about pain in general.
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We talked about different organs
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in different parts of
the body that pain affects.
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Right.
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And it all turns on the
same bad chemical pathway.
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Chronic pain is not good.
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Acute pain really tells
us that something is wrong.
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So, if you have
pain on your skin
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that tells you
something is wrong.
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Right.
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Now, we talked a little bit
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as we gone about
dangerous type pains
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that you've to get
evaluated right away, you know,
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chest pains.
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We're gonna find out there're
certain abdominal pains,
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headache pains,
those are emergency pains,
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you can't wait around.
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Right.
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'Cause it could be
something life threatening.
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And we talked about things
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that aren't quite as
life threatening, you know,
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foot pains and
skin pain is usually one
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that's not as life threatening
as some of the others,
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but it's still a concern
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'cause it can
turn into chronic pain.
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And chronic pain
is a bad situation.
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So if you think
about your skin, you know,
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it goes everywhere, does
a lot of different things,
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it protects us, so
we want to keep our skin
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in pretty good shape.
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Now, if you think about,
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well, when was the
last time my skin hurt
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and what caused it.
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Well, I think if everyone thinks
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about what causes pain,
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they'll know,
they'll realize it.
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Well, the things
that caused pain most
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were something trauma.
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You know, a bruise, a cut.
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You know, those type of
thing caused skin problems.
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And that's what we
see they're most common.
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But there're certainly
other things that can cause it.
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So any chemical
or physical damage
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on the skin can
actually cause it.
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One of the most severe causes
of pain in the skin is burns.
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You know, if you get a lot of--
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'Cause of the
function of the skin,
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so people that have lots
of burns like in a house fire.
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Their skin is burned all over.
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Their skin no longer function.
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So the skin is so important
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for
thermoregulatory, infections,
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it's a barrier for
all these infections
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that come in our body,
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so we figure that large
of amounts of our skin burn,
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that's a very serious infection.
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Also sometimes we
get exposed to chemicals.
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And that's very interesting
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because if we
think about our world,
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we have more chemicals
around than ever before.
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And I'm always
wondering, you know,
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all the chemicals
we put on our bodies,
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the faces, the lotions,
the different things we put.
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Are these good long term
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or could they be
damaging our skin?
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Right. Yes.
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Well, how do you know that?
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How do you know if
something's damaging your skin?
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Well, if you have
pain, if you have rash,
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if you have some
type of skin reaction.
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So skin usually is
response to some type of stimuli
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and there is many
different causes of skin pain.
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I think we've
identified the leading causes
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and that's trauma I've heard it.
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Guess what?
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Number two might be
cause of damage your skin.
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And I sort of
alluded to it already.
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We're talking about
kind of irritants like
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poison ivy or bug
bites, so that kind of thing.
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That is right up
there with it too.
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Okay.
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You know, bug bites,
things biting your skin,
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mosquitoes, ticks, you know,
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all sorts of things
can get on the skin,
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by insects of different types.
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But I was
thinking about sunburn.
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Okay, right, yeah.
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You know, we talk about,
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when we talked
about burns a little bit,
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how dangerous that
is like a big burns
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and we had
different types of burns.
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You have first degree
burns, second degree burns,
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third degree burns.
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The larger the burn number,
the more the skin is damaged.
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You know, and it
talks about the thickness.
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Well, you know, sunburns
are usually life threatening
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like a house fire burn, okay.
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And unfortunately we
need the sun for vitamin D
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which is a
prohormone in our body.
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But sometimes we
can get too much sun.
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And if we get too
much sun, guess what?
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We get sunburns.
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And the real problem
with chronic sunburn, Nick,
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is if you're exposed to
the sun a lot, a lot, a lot
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and burn the lot, later in life
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that gonna be
predisposed you to skin cancer.
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Skin cancers, so you don't
want to burn over and over.
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So if your skin
is not conditioned,
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and you're gonna burn a lot,
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you might benefit
from having sunscreen.
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So what's the optimal amount
of sun we should get everyday?
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Well, it's really,
that's a great question, Nick.
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And it's really according
to your complexion, okay.
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If you're a fair skin person,
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you're not gonna
need as much sun.
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If you're a darker skin person,
then the pigment is darker,
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so it's not much
sun getting through,
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so you're
allowed to take more sun.
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And some of it's your
genetics where you live.
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People that live at
high latitudes, you know,
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near Alaska, their
skin is much different
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than someone that
lives near the equator.
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So it varies from
person, but a general rule is
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you don't want
your skin to burn.
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And for vitamin D, you
want to get out in the sun
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at least 30 minutes
three or four times a day
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as long as your sun
does, as long as your skin,
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as long as your
skin doesn't burn.
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So the key is
keeping the skin from burn
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'cause that's
when it has damage.
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But if you think about
over the history of the earth,
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you know, people
for years and years
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were out in the
sun all the time.
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Their skins gradually
got conditioned to it.
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Now, what's very
damaging to the skin is--
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Your generation
probably does it more than mine,
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they get into
these tanning booths.
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Oh, sure.
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Yeah, and they get
this ultraviolet rays.
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And it just bombards the
skin with ultraviolet rays
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which causes
mutations, and sooner or later
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these mutations later in
life can lead to skin cancer.
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And of course, the
most serious skin cancer
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that we're all worried
about is one called melanoma.
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Melanoma is a very
aggressive skin cancer.
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You know, we have
some call squamous cell,
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basal cell carcinoma,
these all can hurt the skin,
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but melanoma is
probably the most serious.
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So in causing
skin pain, you know,
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sunburns
definitely cause skin pains,
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I think everyone knows
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if they've been
out in the sun too long
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if they had that type of pain.
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And usually for
that type of pain,
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they just put some local,
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local something to
make the skin feel better.
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Make sure it's moisturized,
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so it doesn't lose its moisture.
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Make sure you drink enough water
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and try not to do
it over and over again.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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I know, during the summers
we love to go out in the water.
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And too many times I've to say,
I stay out there and realize
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oh, yeah, I'm getting
sunburn, and it's too late.
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Yeah.
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And it does a toll on a
skin and you get to watch it
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and then later in
life it's very important,
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that's one of the
screenings that we do
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is we screen for skin cancers
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'cause if you
picked that up early on,
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it could be a life saving
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especially for
malignant melanoma.
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So if you see something on
your skin that's changing color,
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that's raising that
has a irregular border,
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that's oozing some
type of moisture out of it
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that doesn't look right,
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that's the time to see a
professional in skin pain
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and that professional
is called a dermatologist.
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Derm-skin-atologist.
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So there are
experts that, you know,
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deciding whether
something is cancer,
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knowing how to treat
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skin disorder and skin pain.
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So hopefully no one
will get to a dermatologist,
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so we talked about, a little bit
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about trauma to the skin.
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We talked about sunburn.
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We talked about insects bites.
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How about infections?
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You know,
infections are frequent
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causes of damaged skin.
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One of the
infections we occasionally see
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is in the heart
area is shingles.
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You know 'cause that's a
rash that causes but measles,
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chickenpox, all of those things
can cause different reactions
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to the skin that
actually damages the skin.
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And we don't want
the skin to be damaged
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'cause it is an important organ.
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And it's very important
in fighting infections.
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Okay.
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Now I had one thing to
choose for good skin care
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out of everything else
that I would choose for.
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One treatment I would
recommend for the skin
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for everyone out there
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and that would be
the treatment of water.
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Yeah. Water.
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It sounds so easy
but did you know that
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it's been estimated that about
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70 percent of
people are dehydrated.
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Wow. It's a big number.
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Right and when
you're hydrating guess what?
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The skin becomes vulnerable,
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not only it
loses its elasticity,
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it gets older quicker,
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it loses some of its
thermoregulatory ability,
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so it's not as good
as getting rid of heat
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which causes a lot of problems,
if they're aging process,
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so just getting enough water
is very important for skin care.
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It's hard to believe.
And that's an easy one.
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You know, we can
just drink every hour,
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every couple of hours and
that will take care of that
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and save a lot of
issues with the skin.
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Now, so other things that
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people don't
think about with skin,
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it damages things like blisters.
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You know, you have
blisters on your skin
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and that can be something from
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not having the right
footwear or clothing.
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We want to protect our
skin from trauma, okay.
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And what type of
person has skin trauma?
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Well, let's say
someone's working outside a lot,
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maybe working in
agriculture, you know,
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their skin is
constantly, you know,
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with insecticides and
different types of things
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that are on plants,
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those people might want to be
careful to protect their skin,
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because remember, if
the skin is compromised,
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guess what?
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Chemicals can enter
the body a lot easier.
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Sure.
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So the skin is protected barrier
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that help protect
us, helps regulate,
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temperature of the
skin does a lot of many,
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many wonderful things.
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So those are just a few of
the common causes of skin pain.
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Now, remember a long time back
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when we started
the series on pain,
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we talked about
different types of pain.
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We talked about the
nerves sensing the pain, okay.
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You know, and we
talked nociceptive type pains
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where the nerve is fine,
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but also the
nerve can be damaged.
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And if a nerve is damaged,
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you could also
have chronic skin pain
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and that could drawn,
it might be from diabetes
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which is a blood vessel disease.
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It might be from
cutting it or hurting it.
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Infections can do it
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but one of the toxins that
hurt our nerves is alcohol.
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A lot of people don't
realize that alcohol and smoking
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long term hurt nerves
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and can eventually end
up with nerve type pains
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including skin pains.
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So as general, the
overall health of your body
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is gonna help
your skin out as well.
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Well, it sounds like
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skin is more
important than I realized.
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Yes, and a lot of
people don't just, you know,
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they don't take
their skin serious
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but if you have a skin
pain, you know, you want--
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Again the same principles.
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Find out why
you're having the pain.
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What can you do short
term and is there any long term
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sequel from
this damage your skin
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that you need to
be concerned about.
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Alrighty, well, we
got a bunch of questions
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that people have
written into our website,
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that's heartwiseministries.org.
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And if you have a
question about your skin
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or other sources of the
body that are causing pain.
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Please visit our website
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and you can ask the
doctor your questions.
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You can also write
in your payer requests.
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You can read Dr. Marcum's blogs
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or you can listen
to previous television
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and radio programs
right there on the website,
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so we encourage you to
visit heartwiseministries.org.
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And we'll be
back in just a moment
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as Dr. Marcum
answers more questions
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on pain in relation to the skin.
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