McNadoMD
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McNadoMD's Bio
Hunter, ER doc, believer in democracy. I’m here to rant, combat medical misinfo, shitpost, and get social therapy. Posts aren’t medical advice. This is the only platform I am currently on. If you find “me” elsewhere, it isn’t me.
A whole of people are about to find out how the world actually works, and they aren't going to like it.
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In response to this post@ai6yr my god people are fucking dumb.
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In response to this post@ai6yr stay safe and good luck!!!
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FYI, ash from fires is very bad for you. It is a lung irritant, it causes cancer, it can scratch your eyes. If you are re-entering a burn zone, wear a P100 respirator or N-95.
Smoke is a whole other can of worms, but in short, smoke from burning man-made materials is horrendously toxic and causes cancer. Firehouses don’t let you take your fire gear inside the living quarters anymore because the offgassing and particulates are so bad.
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@gmillikan @ai6yr not super helpful, but they should get a jump on long term housing now. Takes a year or so to get through the insurance nightmare, and with massive losses like this, getting demolition and rebuild contractors and permitting will take forever. Rentals will fill up immediately because there’s now an acute shortage. Awful situation. We saw it here with the Marshal fire a few years back.
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@stux solid!
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4/4 What can be done to not overload hospitals?
1. Get the flu shot every single fall (usually the new one is out in September/October). This dramatically drops your risk of ending up hospitalized even if you get the flu.
2. Avoid public gatherings when ill. No sense in spreading disease.
3. Wear a mask. Yep, they sure do keep you safe from flu.
4. If you have to go to the ER during flu season, mask up while you’re there, and use the hand sanitizer so you don’t get sick from someone else.
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Finally, influenza is one of many viral illnesses that increases risk of stroke and heart attack. The exact reasons aren’t fully known (although some pieces to the puzzle are), but the inflammation from the influenza infection increases the risk of having an artery in your heart or brain block off. Of course, flu causes headaches, weakness, chest pain, and shortness of breath, so people often wait to come in, and end up in the ICU or dead.
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For people with lung disease like asthma or COPD, the inflammation from flu can cause lethal trapping of carbon dioxide as well as low oxygen levels. For folks who require dialysis, being too sick to go for a few days can cause fatal potassium levels. Patients with severe heart failure at baseline can’t keep up with the demand on their heart from running a fever and having bronchitis, and build up fluid in their lungs.
So you see, even a pretty mild strain of flu can quickly fill hospitals
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“It’s just the seasonal flu, why are hospitals filling up?”
Influenza is a cold for some people, a week of misery for many, and deadly for others. It can, just by itself, kill your heart, cause your lung tissue to die, and kill your kidneys, but that is rare with the current influenza A. What is not rare is people who are already medically fragile getting worse when they get flu. 1/4
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