Show 839: Sugar for Wounds Health News Update
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2011
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Sugar for Wounds:
Sugar seems like an improbable treatment for hard-to-heal wounds. But the ancient Egyptians used honey and animal fat for battle scars. How does that treatment hold up under modern scrutiny?
Holiday Remedies:
When friends and family gather for the holidays, little mishaps may happen. What home remedies can help ease minor problems and make the celebrations smoother?
Colds and Flu in Kids:
The People’s Pharmacy pediatrician, Dr. Alan Greene, helps us distinguish between colds and flu in kids.
Explore the stories behind the health headlines.
This Week’s Guests:
Richard A. Knutson, MD, is a retired orthopedic surgeon in Greenville, MS. His work on sugar to dress wounds was published in the Southern Medical Journal in Nov. 1981.
Alan Greene, MD, is founder of www.drgreene.com and clinical professor of pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine. His books include Feeding Baby Green and Raising Baby Green. He is co-chairman of the board of The Society for Participatory Medicine.
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| 0:00.0 | Holidays can be dangerous to your health. |
| 0:05.0 | Can home remedies help you survive minor household mishaps? |
| 0:09.0 | This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. |
| 0:14.0 | Preparing festive meals can lead to cuts, burns, sore feet, and leg cramps. |
| 0:27.3 | Are there remedies in your kitchen cabinet that can help? |
| 0:30.7 | The ancient Egyptians had a way of healing battle wounds that still works thousands of years later. |
| 0:37.0 | How can we harness the power of sugar to |
| 0:39.4 | heal cuts, burns, and hard-to-treat wounds? We get an update from pediatrician Alan Green on colds |
| 0:46.1 | and fluing kids and revisit yoga for back pain. These stories and your calls are all coming up |
| 0:52.8 | on the people's Pharmacy. |
| 0:55.7 | First, this news. |
| 1:01.4 | In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, adults who take drugs for attention deficit disorder |
| 1:07.5 | do not appear to be at increased risk for cardiovascular complications. |
| 1:13.6 | Medications such as Ritalin or Adderall are stimulants. They can raise blood pressure |
| 1:18.6 | and increase heart rate, so experts have been concerned that such medications might increase |
| 1:23.6 | the risk of a heart attack or stroke. The official prescribing information from the FDA warns that sudden death, stroke, and |
| 1:31.8 | myocardial infarction have been reported in adults taking stimulant drugs at usual doses |
| 1:37.7 | for ADHD. |
| 1:39.2 | A new study has laid those fears to rest. |
| 1:42.1 | The researchers analyzed the medical records of more than 440,000 |
| 1:46.0 | adults who received medical care from large HMOs or Medicaid. The subjects were aged 25 through 64, |
| 1:53.7 | and approximately 150,000 of them took prescription pills for ADHD. Statistical evaluation revealed no differences in heart attacks, |
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