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Your Good Health: How to speed up the healing time of cold sores

Your Good Health: How to speed up the healing time of cold sores

Antiviral medicine can help reduce the duration of herpes flare-ups.
Your Good Health: Is it necessary to stop taking Viagra after a stroke?

Your Good Health: Is it necessary to stop taking Viagra after a stroke?

A man who is stable, has good blood pressure and is more than six months out from his stroke does need not stop Viagra
Your Good Health: Chest X-ray reveals a finding of interstitial lung disease

Your Good Health: Chest X-ray reveals a finding of interstitial lung disease

There are two issues here: The first is that ILD does need to be treated. The second is whether it’s better to tell your mother about the diagnosis.
Your Good Health: Cold feeling in the back still lingers three years after stroke

Your Good Health: Cold feeling in the back still lingers three years after stroke

When a stroke affects the sensory-processing areas of the brain it can result in numbness or pain, but other symptoms, such as a cold sensation, are possible.
Your Good Health: Zyrtec, both inexpensive and safe, works for interstitial cystitis

Your Good Health: Zyrtec, both inexpensive and safe, works for interstitial cystitis

Interstitial cystitis is a chronic pain syndrome whose underlying cause is uncertain
Your Good Health: Proton-pump inhibitors recommended for Barrett’s

Your Good Health: Proton-pump inhibitors recommended for Barrett’s

Barrett’s is a condition where abnormal lining of the esophagus occurs due to years of acid exposure
Your Good Health: Reactive airway disease causes coughing, wheezing

Your Good Health: Reactive airway disease causes coughing, wheezing

Standard immediate treatment for reactive airway disease is an albuterol inhaler.
Your Good Health: Knee replacement leaves patient with more pain than before

Your Good Health: Knee replacement leaves patient with more pain than before

Could try MRI to look for surgical complications, including loosening and instability
To Your Good Health: Meds still necessary after transplant years ago

To Your Good Health: Meds still necessary after transplant years ago

Question: Nine years after the kidney transplant, wouldn’t my body have accepted this new organ as its own and the immunosuppressant drugs would no longer be necessary?
Your Good Health: Gauging concern for palpitations needs investigation

Your Good Health: Gauging concern for palpitations needs investigation

Palpitations are when the heart beats in a particularly forceful, irregular or rapid fashion