Medical Questions I'd Like Answered...

Grek · Post by **Grek** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 4:22 am

My new puppy has hookworm and is not yet house trained. How worried should I be about acquiring new and exciting parasites as a result?

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 5:03 am

Grek wrote:My new puppy has hookworm and is not yet house trained. How worried should I be about acquiring new and exciting parasites as a result?

Hookworm larvae need wet soil to survive in and will die quickly without it. Just clean up after your puppy, thoroughly, and keep your floor dry. I'd recommend always wearing shoes, because they can borrow in through the soles of your feet. Keep your shoes by your bed, on a table if it is likely that your puppy will poop in them.

koz · Post by **koz** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 5:54 am

erik wrote:Terrible as weapons, unless they're Kuroudo Akabane's magic scalpels of course.

Black Jack's also.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Thu Feb 25, 2016 5:46 pm

Spoilered because possibly TMI (male anatomy)

The underside of my testicles have been really itchy lately. I took a look using my phone's front camera but I don't see anything unusual down there so I'm hoping it's not serious.

No pains involving urinating or anything. I wear briefs during the day, don't masturbate (I don't think it's wrong or anything, I've just never felt like trying it) and have never had sex.

Any suggestions?

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Thu Feb 25, 2016 6:25 pm

radthemad4 wrote:Spoilered because possibly TMI (male anatomy)

The underside of my testicles have been really itchy lately. I took a look using my phone's front camera but I don't see anything unusual down there so I'm hoping it's not serious.

I wear briefs during the day, don't masturbate (I don't think it's wrong or anything, I've just never felt like trying it) and have never had sex

Any suggestions?

I am not a doctor, but odds are pretty good you have a case of jock itch. If that is the case, you can treat by keeping the area clean ( more frequent washing and changing of underwear ) and dry (use blow dryer on the groin after showering, dust area / underwear with baby powder ). You may also want to consider using over the counter antifungal creams and/or scrubbing the area with a Pyrithione zinc shampoo during showers.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Thu Feb 25, 2016 6:50 pm

Thanks

. Welp, time to look for powder.

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Thu Feb 25, 2016 6:56 pm

Also, consider boxers, or commando style.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 5:38 am

I think that's helping. Still there but way milder. Thanks.

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 5:41 am

radthemad4 wrote:I wear briefs during the day, don't masturbate (I don't think it's wrong or anything, I've just never felt like trying it) and have never had sex

Your testicles have worse problems than jock itch; neglect.

More seriously, yeah, it's probably run-of-the-mill jock itch. My girlfriend and I went to a localish convention sometime around last July or something (so it was way too fucking hot) and I managed to come back with a similarly embarrassing rash despite showering every morning, wearing different clothes every day, and being a scrawny fucking dude who doesn't sweat all that much to begin with. This shit ain't supposed to happen to me. I am not a stereotypical convention slob goddamnit.

Moisture is the enemy and air is your friend. It's important to keep the area clean and even more important to keep it dry. Swap out briefs for boxers. Wear shorts or baggy pants around the house if you can. Now would be a bad time to pick up masturbation, because it's sweaty. Baby powder will help you keep things dry down there. Change clothes often. Change towels often. Go ahead and wash your sheets and blankets and keep doing it every now and then because why the hell not. Just generally assume that anything that has enough contact with your groin will turn into a biohazard that could potentially be a vector for spores to find their way back onto your skin. You might want to try an antifungal (they're cheap, why not), but I got rid of mine pretty fast without it, and if you can't even find a rash your's is probably a hell of a lot milder than mine. It wasn't very itchy, but over the course of a couple days - despite my best efforts - my rash had exploded across my entire thighs and even stretched up onto my lower back. It was fucking insane. I thought I'd caught some sort of convention-borne superfungus and I was about to start going The Last of Us on people's faces.

Can I reiterate that I'm not a disgusting slob? Fuck you stop judging me.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 6:28 am

Fuck, that sounds potent. I need to take containing this thing more seriously.

I typically wear baggy pants anyway so I'm going to eschew briefs for a while (maybe forever if I can avoid this in the future). Thanks.

DSMatticus wrote:Your testicles have worse problems than jock itch; neglect.

I'm some subvariety of some sexual orientation (asexual?) that doesn't feel like doing anything involving genitals.

Apropos of nothing, leaving your junk out in the open is a bad idea if there are mosquitoes nearby. Fuck...

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Sat Feb 27, 2016 2:32 pm

I think I'm cured, or at least no longer itchy. Thanks guys.

Count Arioch the 28th · Sat Feb 27, 2016 6:29 pm

I know that this is late, but sometimes I have that problem when I'm in the hurry in the shower and don't rinse all the soap off. Very irritating.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Mon Feb 29, 2016 6:03 pm

Hadn't considered that, but I'll keep it mind. Thanks.

Occluded Sun · Post by **Occluded Sun** » Mon Feb 29, 2016 9:40 pm

Note in case of future outbreaks:
Pretty much any garden-variety antifungal will work. Particularly stuff intended for athlete's foot. The fungus responsible for that is technically another species, but they're really closely related.

Totally unrelated question for radthemad4 merely because I'm curious which he is not at all obligated to respond to:

What are your feelings regarding cuddling?

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 5:31 pm

I just used powder and more frequent clothes changes and/or showers this time, but I'll keep that in mind.

Don't know. I'd probably be okay with trying it.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 11:49 am

So, i have, once again, fallen sick . . .
Usually, this should mean a fever right?
My temperature actually dropped below 35° celsius last night.
Can anybody explain to me why that is?

angelfromanotherpin · Sat Mar 05, 2016 12:50 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothermia#Causes

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 1:38 pm

Ah, so that's how it's called.
And none of the causes apply to me.

maglag · Post by **maglag** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 3:15 pm

If you're sick and your temperature is droping, it means the disease is winning. Your body is running out of fuel.

Have you been eating/dressing/sleeping properly? Do you have an heater in your room? Are you shivering?

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 3:40 pm

I am eating, yes. Probably more than i should as well.
And i am lazy as well, i basically slept the entire day yesterday and half of today.
Yes, heater is running, no shivering.

ishy · Post by **ishy** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 9:51 pm

If you're sure your thermometer isn't broken and you didn't make a mistake, you should contact a doctor.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 10:37 pm

Yeah, i have done both.
Appearantly, nothing to be overly concerned about, seeing how my not sick temperature is at about 36-36.5° Celsius for some reason . . despite having been diagnosed with Hyperthyroidism as a child . .
I do not understand.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Sun Mar 06, 2016 6:12 pm

A low temperature and persistent fatigue is a sign of hypothyroidism. If you have a history of thyroid hormone overproduction, you may be overly medicated or your gland's pendulum may have swung the other way.

-Username17

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 3:43 am

So, the [EDITED] in the government have decided my studying doesn't count for anything, and with employment being a joke even in the cities, never mind this little coastal town, it's time to execute the Kevin Nash Strategy.

So what are the specifics for the weight training needed to tear a quad? And how much roid use are we talking? Similarly, how much will it hurt when I do this? I'll need to know roughly when it has worked.

Count Arioch the 28th · Sun Mar 13, 2016 7:03 pm

This is kind of gross, but since this is the medical thread maybe I'll get a pass. Spoilering it anyway because I mention my dick and no one wants to hear about that (but it IS relevant to the question this time)

Why the hell does my urine stream go in like three different directions when I piss, and what can I do to stop it? Peeing while siting down is not an option as there isn't a way I can sit down without the seat/front side of the toilet pushing my dick down and pinching my urethra causing pain and preventing me from emptying my bladder fully (note that it doesn't hurt normally, only when I try to pee when my penis is bent).

I just want to pee somewhere that isn't a urinal without having to spend ten minutes cleaning up, because there is no way I can get three constantly moving liguid streams going in opposite directions to go into a normal toilet