Doctor Answers Blood Questions From Twitter Tech Support WIRED
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Date: 2023-10-13
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crispychrissy
It takes a long time to bleed out to the point of being in danger when on your period, trust me. Several years ago, I had a really heavy flow that lasted several weeks (I'm talking about half a box of pads per day type of heavy flow. I went to urgent care, was told to keep an eye on it, but later that week I passed out in the shower, only to wake up to a doctor explaining to me that I was borderline comatose because my H&H got so low. It was so bad that they kept me in the ICU for 6 days and I ended up needing a total of 9 units of blood. almost an entire person's worth. I can honestly say without donated blood, I'd be dead right now. SO PLEASE DONATE BLOOD IF YOU'RE ABLE!
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It takes a long time to bleed out to the point of being in danger when on your period, trust me. Several years ago, I had a really heavy flow that lasted several weeks (I'm talking about half a box of pads per day type of heavy flow. I went to urgent care, was told to keep an eye on it, but later that week I passed out in the shower, only to wake up to a doctor explaining to me that I was borderline comatose because my H&H got so low. It was so bad that they kept me in the ICU for 6 days and I ended up needing a total of 9 units of blood. almost an entire person's worth. I can honestly say without donated blood, I'd be dead right now. SO PLEASE DONATE BLOOD IF YOU'RE ABLE!
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Colin
The expert series is so well done, Wired always finds fantastic people, and in doing so they are really helping public education. Having clearly intelligent and charismatic experts answer complex questions in the simplest manner possible is fantastic for the millions of laymen like me that watch these. These folks are the Bill Nye's of our era. Plus the cheerful, helpful engagement likely helps shore up trust in educated professionals (especially in medicine) and that's proving to be very socially important nowadays.
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The expert series is so well done, Wired always finds fantastic people, and in doing so they are really helping public education. Having clearly intelligent and charismatic experts answer complex questions in the simplest manner possible is fantastic for the millions of laymen like me that watch these. These folks are the Bill Nye's of our era. Plus the cheerful, helpful engagement likely helps shore up trust in educated professionals (especially in medicine) and that's proving to be very socially important nowadays.
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MalagAste
What always blows my mind about the blood types. humans have been around for such a longish time that I'm surprised all the time that more people aren't AB+ by now. facinates me.
Which another thing that interests me. my entire family. both on my mothers side and my fathers side are all A+. yet my daughter. O+. Confusing. Some where in my parents history. there is a recessive O that I apparently inherited. completely baffled my mind.
Liking your show. as a Lab Tech. this is awesome. Thanks.
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What always blows my mind about the blood types. humans have been around for such a longish time that I'm surprised all the time that more people aren't AB+ by now. facinates me.
Which another thing that interests me. my entire family. both on my mothers side and my fathers side are all A+. yet my daughter. O+. Confusing. Some where in my parents history. there is a recessive O that I apparently inherited. completely baffled my mind.
Liking your show. as a Lab Tech. this is awesome. Thanks.
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Montana
I m the mosquito magnet, I m also allergic. I can go camping with 4 other friends, tormented all night by mosquitoes. I ll wake up several times in the night very uncomfortable and sometimes in pain. Each bite turns red and puffy and radiates outwards maybe an inch or so. Painful ones are on my fingers or bottom of feet. Next morning I ve had a horrible night of sleep, my friends didn t get hit, and if they did they didn t notice. Meanwhile my whole body, even parts covered with a blanket is bitten.
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I m the mosquito magnet, I m also allergic. I can go camping with 4 other friends, tormented all night by mosquitoes. I ll wake up several times in the night very uncomfortable and sometimes in pain. Each bite turns red and puffy and radiates outwards maybe an inch or so. Painful ones are on my fingers or bottom of feet. Next morning I ve had a horrible night of sleep, my friends didn t get hit, and if they did they didn t notice. Meanwhile my whole body, even parts covered with a blanket is bitten.
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QuirkyViper
Thank you for talking about standard ranges for blood tests and different geographical areas w/blood types. I was a grown grown adult before a hematologist was able to help me understand my ridiculous life long anemia & alpha thalassemia. Now I have a treatment that actually works rather than just taking iron pills that never did anything and just emotionally feel less defective knowing that some of what's different about my body is the result of it trying to protect itself.
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Thank you for talking about standard ranges for blood tests and different geographical areas w/blood types. I was a grown grown adult before a hematologist was able to help me understand my ridiculous life long anemia & alpha thalassemia. Now I have a treatment that actually works rather than just taking iron pills that never did anything and just emotionally feel less defective knowing that some of what's different about my body is the result of it trying to protect itself.
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biaroca
Why are they asking questions about blood pressure to a hemathologist? He got almost everything he talked about that wrong. Those are best left for a cardiologist.
Venous pressure isn't equal to diastolic BP, it's much much lower. Diastolic BP also isn't what happens after the blood finishes giving oxigen and has nothing to do with oxigen in fact. Not all kinds of fainting are like that, and not all kinds of fainting are benign like the blood drawing one.
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Why are they asking questions about blood pressure to a hemathologist? He got almost everything he talked about that wrong. Those are best left for a cardiologist.
Venous pressure isn't equal to diastolic BP, it's much much lower. Diastolic BP also isn't what happens after the blood finishes giving oxigen and has nothing to do with oxigen in fact. Not all kinds of fainting are like that, and not all kinds of fainting are benign like the blood drawing one.
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Jill
Weirdly enough, plasma can and does change colors. When I used to donate plasma some years ago, the plasma was a pretty peachy mango color. I took no prescription medication and that was the natural color of my plasma. But the blood bank workers explained that women who take birth control pills or hormone replacement therapy often have olive green/ pea green plasma due to the medication in their body.
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Weirdly enough, plasma can and does change colors. When I used to donate plasma some years ago, the plasma was a pretty peachy mango color. I took no prescription medication and that was the natural color of my plasma. But the blood bank workers explained that women who take birth control pills or hormone replacement therapy often have olive green/ pea green plasma due to the medication in their body.
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TheOncDoc
thanks for having me! important note idk if it was editing or I misspoke in blood rushing excitement--probably the latter bc I mean, it's wired magazine--the diastolic / lower number is still an arterial pressure read veins are passive / not part of BP but still all a closed circuit and this is why i'm not a cardiologist. at the dismay of uncles and aunties everywhere i'm sure
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thanks for having me! important note idk if it was editing or I misspoke in blood rushing excitement--probably the latter bc I mean, it's wired magazine--the diastolic / lower number is still an arterial pressure read veins are passive / not part of BP but still all a closed circuit and this is why i'm not a cardiologist. at the dismay of uncles and aunties everywhere i'm sure
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t0my
Great video and amazing speaker. I wish there was a good opportunity here for him to explain the importance of blood donation and, for especially those of us who are AB+, the importance of platelet donation. He waved at it in the part about the centrifuge, which they use in plateletpheresis, so that would've been cool to mention.
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Great video and amazing speaker. I wish there was a good opportunity here for him to explain the importance of blood donation and, for especially those of us who are AB+, the importance of platelet donation. He waved at it in the part about the centrifuge, which they use in plateletpheresis, so that would've been cool to mention.
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XVeganSince'93X
Just a reminder, clogged arteries are caused by a buildup of cholesterol, and vegan food has zero cholesterol. Our bodies produce all the cholesterol we need, we should not be getting any in food, and we can only expel 100 mg/day excess. One chicken egg has 300 mg. BTW, 30 years vegan and zero health issues!
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Just a reminder, clogged arteries are caused by a buildup of cholesterol, and vegan food has zero cholesterol. Our bodies produce all the cholesterol we need, we should not be getting any in food, and we can only expel 100 mg/day excess. One chicken egg has 300 mg. BTW, 30 years vegan and zero health issues!
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Stimm002
For the amount of blood in a peroid question the biggest thing is that only about 36% of it is actually blood. 2 thirds of it is other stuff like the uterine wall and other tissues and secreations. So your not losing anywhere near the amount of blood you think you are as the vast majority isnt blood.
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For the amount of blood in a peroid question the biggest thing is that only about 36% of it is actually blood. 2 thirds of it is other stuff like the uterine wall and other tissues and secreations. So your not losing anywhere near the amount of blood you think you are as the vast majority isnt blood.
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Hildir
. Dude kinda doesn't tell you anything. your veins have less pressure cause they're the bottom number. getting injected with the wrong blood type is bad because IT SEES SOMETHING FOREIGN AND GOES ROGUE
Don't wanna dis dude cause he obviously is in the profession, but man he's bad at explaining.
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. Dude kinda doesn't tell you anything. your veins have less pressure cause they're the bottom number. getting injected with the wrong blood type is bad because IT SEES SOMETHING FOREIGN AND GOES ROGUE
Don't wanna dis dude cause he obviously is in the profession, but man he's bad at explaining.
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Raxxie
I was diagnosed as neutropenic when I was in middle school and had to have blood draws weekly for 2 years! They need to adjust the range of normal because it was horrible and terrifying! For all I know now, I was completely fine. PS. being Jamaican hearing you say clot so much had me triggered lol
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I was diagnosed as neutropenic when I was in middle school and had to have blood draws weekly for 2 years! They need to adjust the range of normal because it was horrible and terrifying! For all I know now, I was completely fine. PS. being Jamaican hearing you say clot so much had me triggered lol
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Texas
Good information but I do have to (respectfully) correct one thing Dr. Juneja said. He stated that venous pressure is the bottom number on a blood pressure measurement. The bottom number is the lowest pressure in the arteries during the cardiac cycle. Pressure in the veins is usually 8-10 mmHg.
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Good information but I do have to (respectfully) correct one thing Dr. Juneja said. He stated that venous pressure is the bottom number on a blood pressure measurement. The bottom number is the lowest pressure in the arteries during the cardiac cycle. Pressure in the veins is usually 8-10 mmHg.
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Gobble
Mosquitos GGGrrrrr!
I Hate The Little F er!
I'm an Anglo-Saxon Man,
I Live in England,
I've Always Been Told When Travelling,
Oh! They Don't Like Bitting The Natives,
Well, They Bite Anywhere in The World,
On Every Part of My Body,
OWCH!
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Mosquitos GGGrrrrr!
I Hate The Little F er!
I'm an Anglo-Saxon Man,
I Live in England,
I've Always Been Told When Travelling,
Oh! They Don't Like Bitting The Natives,
Well, They Bite Anywhere in The World,
On Every Part of My Body,
OWCH!
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Sami
1: 46 This is not accurate. The bottom number of conventional blood pressure notation is diastolic blood pressure, which means the lowest pressure within the major arteries. It is not the same as the pressure inside veins.
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1: 46 This is not accurate. The bottom number of conventional blood pressure notation is diastolic blood pressure, which means the lowest pressure within the major arteries. It is not the same as the pressure inside veins.
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Subhashini
the way he answered the question related to period blood makes me so happy. like for once there is no reference to 'the amount of blood being lost is minimal so just relax, don't exaggerate' etc: )
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the way he answered the question related to period blood makes me so happy. like for once there is no reference to 'the amount of blood being lost is minimal so just relax, don't exaggerate' etc: )
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Torikpop
If biology was explain like this in middle/high school, I wouldn t have fallen asleep. Most of the things I was supposed to learn in middle/high school I ended up teaching myself in college
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If biology was explain like this in middle/high school, I wouldn t have fallen asleep. Most of the things I was supposed to learn in middle/high school I ended up teaching myself in college
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Resa
This was great! I could understand the concept of everything he explained because he put it together so well! Thanks for answering questions about blood that I didn t even know I had
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This was great! I could understand the concept of everything he explained because he put it together so well! Thanks for answering questions about blood that I didn t even know I had
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Target
Dr. Juneja's kindness and dedication to educating people, as well as simplifying complex concepts, are commendable. We are fortunate to have him as the host of our podcast.
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Dr. Juneja's kindness and dedication to educating people, as well as simplifying complex concepts, are commendable. We are fortunate to have him as the host of our podcast.
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