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Hospital and Internal Medicine Podcast

Bedbugs 3 Live Free and Die Hard

Hospital and Internal Medicine Podcast

Gil Porat, M.D., FACP, CPT

Health & Fitness, Fitness, Science, Health & Fitness:medicine, Medicine

4.7587 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome to part three about bedbugs. In the second part, we were finishing off talking about

0:07.2

rashes. And now, rashes are probably the main thing that paritis, itching, the skin manifestations

0:15.7

that you're going to notice about bed bug bites, but there are other manifestations and diseases

0:23.6

that are likely to be described with bed bugs in the future, both infectious and non-infectious.

0:32.6

We all know that some fields of study are more challenging than others. What people may not appreciate is that

0:39.5

the scientists that study bed bugs have to keep them alive. And the best way to keep them alive

0:46.9

for the scientists is to feed them using screens and filters that they put on their skin

0:52.7

and letting the bed bugs eat their blood

0:56.0

through bites through the skin.

0:58.0

And I have thought, I have had days where I don't feel very worky and still stay professional,

1:05.0

but right there, that is job dedication.

1:08.0

I mean, you don't have to be crazy to work in hospitals but the hospitals

1:13.6

will train you to be crazy but you need to be a little crazy from the outset to work with bedbugs

1:19.9

most jobs the incentive plan seems to be work or be fired but when you work with bedbugs

1:27.3

your incentive plan is to feed them and if you

1:29.5

don't your job dies now some of the scientists who have done that for a long time indeed have

1:35.8

developed anemia and on rare occasion they will develop some unusual symptoms that even can include

1:43.3

vasculitis so vasculitis is an inflammation of blood

1:46.9

vessels and can be very serious, not totally shocking that one could trigger an abnormal

1:53.2

response in the person's immune system through recurring bites. And that damages the blood

1:59.6

vessels. However, I have never seen a physician be so astute

2:03.7

that they figured out the ideology of the vasculitis was from bedbugs. And perhaps the biggest

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