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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: A'd be quarter to eleven on News Talks. D be

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Speaker 2: viewed a list all of the common things that gps

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Speaker 2: and doctors are presented with. Colds would be near the

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Speaker 2: top of the list. But also, and to surprise me,

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Speaker 2: cold sores. Our doctor, doctor Brian Betty, is here with

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Speaker 2: us this morning. What in it, Brian, I'm er Jack

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Speaker 2: not to be here? Yeah I was. I was a

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Speaker 2: little bit surprised by this. But but take us back

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Speaker 2: to first principles. What are cold saws?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, look incredibly common. They can be very mild or

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Speaker 3: quite severe. And the small fluid filled blisters that are

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Speaker 3: tear on the skin and they often appear in little patches.

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Speaker 3: Now commonly what people say is among the lips, the chin,

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Speaker 3: the cheeks, and sometimes in the nostrils and more severe

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Speaker 3: cases they can actually happen on the roof of the

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Speaker 3: mouth or the guns and they tend to be particularly painful.

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Speaker 3: So what what patients will notice is is it starts

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Speaker 3: with a sort of ingling, riching over thatarticularly area of

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Speaker 3: the skin, and over forty eight hours, these little clusters

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Speaker 3: and blisters actually develop. Then given about a week later,

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Speaker 3: a few days later, they actually burst and they start

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Speaker 3: to crust over and dry out, sort of like if

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Speaker 3: you've got kids have had chicken pox, a similar sort

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Speaker 3: of thing tends to happen. They just dry out, take

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Speaker 3: about two to three weeks to hel up completely, and

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Speaker 3: sometimes we do see things like a slight temperature, a

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Speaker 3: slight sore throat, and the headache associated with them. But

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Speaker 3: incredibly incredibly.

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Speaker 2: Common, and they're caused by a virus.

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Speaker 3: That yeah, so they're caused by something called the Herpee

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Speaker 3: simplex type one virus. Now, Herpee simplex type two is

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Speaker 3: a thing that causes chenital herpes. It's actually a virus.

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Speaker 3: It's related, but it's a separate virus, and it causes

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Speaker 3: these things called cold slaws cold saws. Now, they are

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Speaker 3: spread through close contact, So if you've got a cold saw,

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Speaker 3: things like kissine, sharing utensils or sharing toils will actually

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Speaker 3: spread the virus, so you need to be particularly careful

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Speaker 3: of that. And they are more likely bread when the

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Speaker 3: blisters burst because there's a bit of fluid there which

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Speaker 3: is very easy to transmit. Now, the other really interesting

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Speaker 3: thing about them is the virus once you've got it.

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Speaker 3: The virus once it goes away, it hides in the

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Speaker 3: nerve cells of the face. Okay, so the virus never

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Speaker 3: ever goes away, It just suits it and it can

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Speaker 3: actually be triggered by things like stress, fatigue, trauma, fever,

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Speaker 3: sun wind. So some people get these recurrent episodes of

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Speaker 3: it triggered by what we call these trigger factors, and

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Speaker 3: the virus pops out again and you get another cold sauce.

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Speaker 3: So you never actually get rid of the virus. It's

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Speaker 3: quite interesting.

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Speaker 2: So how do you treat them?

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Speaker 3: Look, they get better over two to three weeks, so

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Speaker 3: regardless of what you do, they clear up and get better.

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Speaker 3: So that's the first thing to say about them. But

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Speaker 3: often we advise simple things like, you know, if you're

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Speaker 3: going outside, wear some sun block or lip balm because

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Speaker 3: that just helps protect the area that's affected. Paracetamol or

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Speaker 3: broof and can help with the pain. Look, avoid salty

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Speaker 3: foods around them. Anyone who's eating sort of chips with

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Speaker 3: the sore throat will know what I'm talking about. That

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Speaker 3: can cause a lot of pain. Things like ice and

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Speaker 3: warm flannels can help. And actually you can go to

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Speaker 3: the chemists, go to see a chemist, and there is

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Speaker 3: anti viral cream. You can get something called a cycle

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Speaker 3: of via or fam cyclavia cream and that can speed

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Speaker 3: up the healing of them.

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Speaker 2: And is there anything else we should be thinking about

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Speaker 2: if we experience cultures obviously trying not to you know,

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Speaker 2: share drinks and that kind of thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's really important. You don't want to spread them,

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Speaker 3: so kissing you know, as we said, towels and things

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Speaker 3: don't do that. Look, they do recur, as I said,

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Speaker 3: with these trigger factors. So if you know that the

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Speaker 3: wind or the sun suddenly triggers them or something triggers them,

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Speaker 3: try and avoid that if you can. There's actually a

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Speaker 3: natural remedy. Kanooka honey based cream has been shown to

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Speaker 3: be quite quite beneficial with them. So there is a

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Speaker 3: proven natural remedy around which is quite quite interesting. But

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Speaker 3: I would say look at the particularly large they don't

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Speaker 3: clear up over about two weeks or they're near the eye,

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Speaker 3: and particular the eyes we get worried about. Please please

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Speaker 3: go and see your doctor or GP and get them

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Speaker 3: checked out. Please.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Oh that's really that's really good advice. Thank you. Hey,

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Speaker 2: are you into the Olympics. Brian is that are you in.

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Speaker 3: A well, I will be watching them. Yeah, but I

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Speaker 3: didn't manage to watch the ceremony this morning.

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Speaker 2: It was only five hours long, don't worry about that.

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Speaker 2: It was pretty good. They had, you know, they had

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Speaker 2: Celindi on and Lady Gaga, rough, arm A Dull and yeah,

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Speaker 2: Serena Williams. Yeah it was. It was spectacular. But is

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Speaker 2: there an event that stands out to you that you're

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Speaker 2: that you're sort of most keen forum.

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Speaker 3: So look, look, I think the canoeing, Actually I'm interesting

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Speaker 3: the kayaking. It's kayaking, isn't it. You know, at least

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Speaker 3: Carrington that I think that's going to be really really

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Speaker 3: interesting this year in terms of what happened.

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Speaker 2: Such competition in New Zealand, right, yeah, the reason to

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Speaker 2: think that we could be one too in the in

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Speaker 2: the Woman's came, well, that's exactly right.

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Speaker 3: So I think that's why it's well well worth watching.

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Speaker 3: But I'll be interested in Dylan Schmid as well. Trumpet leaders.

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Speaker 3: I think that'll be really interesting as well, so I've

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Speaker 3: been watching him closely. So look, I think it'd be

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Speaker 3: exciting two weeks. So it always is once it starts.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, once it kicks off and you know

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Speaker 2: it's past the opening cerem and he gets into competition

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Speaker 2: in earnest and the middles.

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Speaker 3: Of being out very exciting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, thank you so much. You take care and

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Speaker 2: we will catch your own doctor Brian Beatty.

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