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Speaker 2: Their good morning and welcome to the House of Wellness.
Speaker 2: I'm Sam Mary Cameron.
Speaker 3: This morning we are joined by yoga and breathwork instructor
Speaker 3: Flip Shelton. So wonderful to have you back in the
Speaker 3: studio along with pharmacist and master herbalist Gerald Quickly.
Speaker 4: Good morning for you, morning Sarah Marie, and great to
Speaker 4: see you too, Flip just it is an amazing I
Speaker 4: really welcome these days because we have we've come on here.
Speaker 4: We all take a deep breath because we've all been
Speaker 4: going maybe I've been listening because I can't get a
Speaker 4: word in, but we we've been thrashing out so many
Speaker 4: health issues and things on the show today we've we've
Speaker 4: briefed up about. So it's great, great way to start
Speaker 4: a Sunday.
Speaker 5: I love it, so good, so helpful.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, First up, we're actually going to be chatting
Speaker 3: about something that's often not discussed, and that is incontinence.
Speaker 2: It affects around one in four of us.
Speaker 3: Here in Australia and it can be caused by various
Speaker 3: health conditions along with life changing events like childbirth, menopause,
Speaker 3: to name a few. We're going to be talking to
Speaker 3: the formidable doctor Yana Pittman, three times Olympian and now
Speaker 3: medical doctor for the World Continents week.
Speaker 2: She's going to be.
Speaker 3: Talking to us about looking at a plan to put
Speaker 3: in place to manage in continents and also dry eye disease.
Speaker 2: It's a common condition that many people can suffer from.
Speaker 3: Optometrist doctor Margaret Lamb is going to take us through
Speaker 3: the symptoms and what's out there to relieve dry eyes.
Speaker 3: I don't know about you guys, but I'm finding winter
Speaker 3: where we are because with the three of us in
Speaker 3: Melbourne right now, can be a little bit drier.
Speaker 4: Sure, and we've all got air conditioning in the car
Speaker 4: and everywhere else. But it's very common. It's a very
Speaker 4: common inquiry I get. And I'm going to ask Margaret
Speaker 4: later on about the relationship to developing cataracts and dry
Speaker 4: eye because I think there's a link, could be a link.
Speaker 2: Oh that's fascinating.
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Speaker 4: It's a phenomenal initiative that just has been driving now
Speaker 4: for a couple of years because we tend to rush
Speaker 4: it off. Blogs don't talk.
Speaker 1: About their health.
Speaker 4: It's a lot more serious than that. As the providers,
Speaker 4: the impression is we have to provide. Don't worry, we'll
Speaker 4: look after ourselves and if I've got a bit of
Speaker 4: an issue, I stick my head in the sand for
Speaker 4: long enough, it'll just go away. Well usually doesn't.
Speaker 5: It's that fine line between as a wife and a mum,
Speaker 5: whether you're nagging someone and a friend nagging. Yeah, really
Speaker 5: when you inquire, like I've asked my son a couple
Speaker 5: of times and he goes, I find them and that's well,
Speaker 5: that's fine.
Speaker 4: At least he's talking to you. Twenty one?
Speaker 5: How old is he fifteen?
Speaker 2: Inquires? A nice way to put it.
Speaker 3: My husband and I just say, when we're calling each
Speaker 3: other out because we know that we know we can
Speaker 3: be better, or maybe we're not being our best self
Speaker 3: and we just have to be blunt.
Speaker 2: We call each other out.
Speaker 3: And that was one of our vows to each that
Speaker 3: we allow ourselves to do that because at the end
Speaker 3: of the day, we want us to be the best
Speaker 3: versions of ourselves for each other.
Speaker 2: And that means.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you got to have really tough decisions right at discussions.
Speaker 4: Rather you get the tough caller, I get them often,
Speaker 4: you know, you get.
Speaker 3: The tough not this morning, though, Philips on beautiful text
Speaker 3: message before the show kicked off. Now, some of us
Speaker 3: might find that we are forgetful at moments, right, So Gerald,
Speaker 3: you're going to talk us through some solutions for helping
Speaker 3: to improve our memory.
Speaker 2: A little bit later, this.
Speaker 4: Morning, I will and very important because we think we've
Speaker 4: been lead to believe for so long. If you've got
Speaker 4: a problem, you take appeal and it's better in a
Speaker 4: few days. Well, losing your cognitive function as in being
Speaker 4: consistently and seriously forgetful, isn't something you can just suddenly
Speaker 4: switch off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no it's not. We'll be chatting about that a
Speaker 2: little bit later.
Speaker 3: And as always one three one eight seven three is
Speaker 3: our number. You can call through it any time to
Speaker 3: discuss any health concerns that you may have. But up next,
Speaker 3: Doctor Jannet Pittman joins us for World Continents Week here
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the House of Wellness. Our number is
Speaker 3: one three one eight seven three. Will take more of
Speaker 3: your calls later this morning to discuss any health concerns
Speaker 3: that you may have.
Speaker 2: But World Continents.
Speaker 3: Week starts tomorrow, which gives us the chance to have
Speaker 3: a conversation about this condition. It affects over five million
Speaker 3: people in the country. So joining us this morning is
Speaker 3: doctor Yanna Pittman, former Olympia now turned a medical doctor
Speaker 3: and advocate for Continents Health Australia.
Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Yana, Good.
Speaker 7: Morning, good morning, Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 3: Now we know the Continents effects one in four Australians,
Speaker 3: so can you explain a little bit more about it
Speaker 3: and how it affects us and who.
Speaker 7: Well, it's interesting because I think most of us have
Speaker 7: that sort of idea that affects people in their elderly age,
Speaker 7: you know, eighty five year olds who are sort of
Speaker 7: going towards needing some help with their bows and their blooder.
Speaker 7: But actually seventy one percent of us are under the
Speaker 7: age of sixty five and I am one of those,
Speaker 7: which is why I'm so passionate in this space. I even,
Speaker 7: you know, as an Olympic athlete, had incontinence prior to
Speaker 7: having babies, because I think that's the other misconception. We think, oh,
Speaker 7: it's women who've had lots of vaginal births, We've had
Speaker 7: forrcet deliveries, And yes, absolutely that is a predisposing factor.
Speaker 7: But it's also people who are young and just aren't
Speaker 7: brave enough to talk to their family about it or
Speaker 7: go and seek professional help. So I think that's why
Speaker 7: I'm so passionate about this, and particularly this week when
Speaker 7: we're raising awareness for continence, is that I want people
Speaker 7: to talk about it and to not be ashamed because
Speaker 7: it is really common, but it's actually not normal, and
Speaker 7: it's time to sort of go and see a GP,
Speaker 7: get a referral to a gynocologist or at least the
Speaker 7: a pelvic physiotherapist and work on that pelvic floor.
Speaker 5: What are some of the practices that we can put
Speaker 5: into place to manage incontinence because some people might be
Speaker 5: a little bit nervous to leave their house absolutely.
Speaker 7: And look, I'm in such a privileged position these days
Speaker 7: because I'm actually training. I'm as a registrar in a gynocology,
Speaker 7: so I get to work with women all the time
Speaker 7: who say that exact thing, who are really unable to
Speaker 7: go out and have coffee with their friends, who are
Speaker 7: feeling that they can't go to the gym and jump
Speaker 7: on the trampoline and things like that. And you also
Speaker 7: have people post cancer who may have had bladder cancer
Speaker 7: or servical cancer uterine cancer who also are suffering suffering
Speaker 7: quite significantly from these symptoms. So there's lots of little things. Firstly,
Speaker 7: get an a point where with your doctor have a
Speaker 7: discussion about it, because there's medications, there's pestories, there's surgery
Speaker 7: that's depending on what type of incontinence you have. There's
Speaker 7: lots of options. Water Whites have even now brought out
Speaker 7: an actual adult wipe to help in that space so
Speaker 7: that you can have a little bit of dignity when
Speaker 7: you're out and about. There's pads and obviously underwear that
Speaker 7: now have that absorption option. So there are definitely stuff
Speaker 7: we can do. But again, I don't want people to
Speaker 7: necessarily live with it all the time. I want them
Speaker 7: to talk about it with their family, be brave then
Speaker 7: and hopefully get some help, because you know, I remember
Speaker 7: my own mum having it when I was growing up,
Speaker 7: and it just was normalized. Oh, that's just part of
Speaker 7: getting older, down, and you know, that's normal. Yeah, and
Speaker 7: it's not. And I know it was pretty funny because
Speaker 7: obviously on national television when I did the SAS show
Speaker 7: the a couple of years ago, I wet myself because
Speaker 7: it was about six months after having my first baby,
Speaker 7: and I was so sure that the world was going
Speaker 7: to come down on me hard for an outsteming on television.
Speaker 7: But it is the exact opposite from what I was expecting,
Speaker 7: and it sort of just opened up this massive conversation
Speaker 7: around well, what is normal and how many people are
Speaker 7: actually going through this every day? And young people are
Speaker 7: going through this and men are going through this. You know,
Speaker 7: it's not just the elderly that are sitting in this space,
Speaker 7: you know, having to wear a pat in their underpans
Speaker 7: or even an happy when they're getting older.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, if we could just focus and well
Speaker 4: done too, because many years ago the focus changed from
Speaker 4: incontinence to continents, so it demystified and perhaps raised the
Speaker 4: respect that we need to have for someone who's really
Speaker 4: struggling with this. If we could just talk about the
Speaker 4: often medications so people will go to their doctor and
Speaker 4: often be prescribed anticholinergics. I've always had real issues with
Speaker 4: the cognitive decline associated with anticholinergics. Do we need perhaps
Speaker 4: if you've given medications for continents, so you've got continent issue,
Speaker 4: if you're given a medication, do we need to explain
Speaker 4: more both at the GP level and the pharmacy level
Speaker 4: of things to look out for as far as your
Speaker 4: brain functions concerned.
Speaker 7: Well, it's more than brain function. It's also you know,
Speaker 7: people get really dry mouth and they get constipation, and
Speaker 7: there's there are definitely side effects. I mean, that's the
Speaker 7: case with all medications, isn't there. And there's also the
Speaker 7: flip side of not taking medication and urner attract infections
Speaker 7: that can cause cognitive a client if they don't get.
Speaker 8: On top of it.
Speaker 7: Because a lot of older people, as I'm sure you're aware,
Speaker 7: don't you know, they don't even have symptoms and they
Speaker 7: have a roaring ecoli infection which can decline cognitive effects.
Speaker 7: So I think it is something that we all need
Speaker 7: that education on. And obviously, guys, I'm really dun you
Speaker 7: remember how many a comple years into my training. So
Speaker 7: my recommendation there would be, you know, speak to someone
Speaker 7: like doctor step UNPACKI, who's a very experience you're a gynocologist,
Speaker 7: and see whether there's a way that we can't you know,
Speaker 7: I don't as create good packages that can then be
Speaker 7: given out to the GPS for that exact thing to
Speaker 7: discuss what those side effects are. There's certainly some good
Speaker 7: online resources and stuff that we can give our patients,
Speaker 7: and perhaps that's what we have to do, is provide
Speaker 7: an information sheet with every sort of medication that we give.
Speaker 7: And I guess the bottom line and the easiest thing
Speaker 7: to do is say, if you experience something or you
Speaker 7: notice your loved one is having a funny change in
Speaker 7: the symptom with any new medication, raise it at at
Speaker 7: the next consult because you're right, last time we want
Speaker 7: to do particularly and then someone who's elderly is reduced
Speaker 7: their cognition and ability to enjoy life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now we're talking about managing and hopefully overcoming in continence.
Speaker 2: But is there a way that we can prevent it?
Speaker 7: What tim men is in prevent in continent?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, as in is there a way that you
Speaker 3: can try and not face it? Is there anything that
Speaker 3: you can try and do? Certainly not a conversation that
Speaker 3: came up for me. I had cervical cancer. I had
Speaker 3: numerous operations for endometriosis adnomiosis and had.
Speaker 2: To go down the path of a.
Speaker 3: Pelvic floor physiotherapist, which you rightly suggested earlier as well.
Speaker 3: But I found that this was after the fact. Nobody
Speaker 3: spoke to me about it prior to the surgeries.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I think you've just hit the really important
Speaker 7: point there is that young people need conversations about this.
Speaker 7: And it's so interesting because I'm working in this space
Speaker 7: a lot now and I feel like it's at a
Speaker 7: high school level, Like I feel like we need to
Speaker 7: get in there. You know how that do you remember
Speaker 7: the old herald character fast roll up to school for
Speaker 7: the best. Were they something like that to go in
Speaker 7: at like a year I don't know, year eleven, year
Speaker 7: twelve level, or possibly even year seven, year eight level,
Speaker 7: maybe around the time they give the HPV vaccination to
Speaker 7: kids around the cervical cancer conversation and actually say, right,
Speaker 7: this is a part of life. It may be something
Speaker 7: you never experienced, but these are the small ways to
Speaker 7: prevent it. Because if we imagine, if we've got our
Speaker 7: sort of younger girls just as they start menstruating, to
Speaker 7: start doing their pelvic floor and explaining what a prostate
Speaker 7: is to our young boys, like allowing them to sort
Speaker 7: of understand what that space is, and also remembering guys
Speaker 7: is speakling continents too. It's not just urine readers. That
Speaker 7: Continents Health Australia is promoting and we're talking about them
Speaker 7: at the moment, so you know what is normal? What
Speaker 7: can you do about it? And even if you just
Speaker 7: problem them to have a conversation with their family, But
Speaker 7: the bottom line is it's having the conversation. And I
Speaker 7: think that's what's been hard is that continental incontinents has
Speaker 7: been such a taboo topic for hundreds of years and
Speaker 7: seen as such a negative part of let's be honest,
Speaker 7: a very common problem that we just need people to
Speaker 7: be brave and step up and say, Okay, I'm going
Speaker 7: to talk about this. I'm going to share this with
Speaker 7: my family and I'm going to talk about it with my friends.
Speaker 7: And what kegels are going to work for me? If
Speaker 7: they aren't working, am I doing them correctly?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 7: Probably not. Let's go and see a pelvic physiotherapist and
Speaker 7: have that real collaborative approach.
Speaker 2: There's that conversation the keegels.
Speaker 3: Yeahs, do your exercises. Doctor Jana Pittman, thank you so
Speaker 3: much for joining us and thank you for all of
Speaker 3: the work that you were doing.
Speaker 2: Is if you were already.
Speaker 3: Accomplished enough in your life as an olympian and a
Speaker 3: fantastic mother as well. You decided that you want to
Speaker 3: change more people's lives and go down the path of
Speaker 3: becoming a doctor. It's incredible, so thank you so much.
Speaker 9: Absolute pleasure.
Speaker 4: That's really lovely.
Speaker 7: Thanks guy, Thank you.
Speaker 3: You can find out more about this topic at continence
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the House of Wellness. One three, one
Speaker 3: eight seven three is our number. You can also google
Speaker 3: ask Gerald if there might be a medical question that
Speaker 3: you have that is a little bit more personal and
Speaker 3: you just want to get straight to the Great.
Speaker 2: Man himself, you can do it that way.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 3: One of our biggest fears for most of us as
Speaker 3: we age is forgetfulness, like where did we leave our keys?
Speaker 2: Or you know, if you're putting something in the fridge
Speaker 2: that really isn't meant.
Speaker 3: To be in the fridge of either have you done
Speaker 3: that like your keys? Or when you forget to turn
Speaker 3: your mic on.
Speaker 4: Like that, all.
Speaker 3: Of those things, right, Gerald, Thank you. We've forgotten names,
Speaker 3: we've forgotten microphones.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and look we have a laugh about it, but
Speaker 4: it does. It's something that we all confront. If it's
Speaker 4: not ourselves, eventually it will be a loved one of
Speaker 4: some sort. And almost everybody you talk to is touched
Speaker 4: by dementia in some way and at different levels, and
Speaker 4: as we were saying before Flip, we've grown up in
Speaker 4: a world where you have a pill and it'll get better.
Speaker 4: We do not have a cure for dementia. We just
Speaker 4: do or Alzheimer's. Bearing in mind, there are different stages
Speaker 4: of dementia, and no matter how much money is thrown,
Speaker 4: are trying to understand what it's all about, we really
Speaker 4: aren't getting all that far. I get really annoyed when
Speaker 4: I read stories as I did a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 4: about a new treatment that's revolutionary and game changing and
Speaker 4: it might be on the market in five or ten
Speaker 4: years time.
Speaker 1: That's lovely.
Speaker 4: But if we go back to basics and we look
Speaker 4: at feeding the organ that functions, so feeding the brain
Speaker 4: that we expect will keep going until we fall over.
Speaker 4: There are certain nutrients we need. We need only the
Speaker 4: three fatty acids. We need amino acids, we need B group,
Speaker 4: and we need them in a formulation that has been
Speaker 4: shown or is shown to make a difference. As far
Speaker 4: as arresting the decline of cognitive function. The issue is
Speaker 4: called mild cognitive impairment. Sounds lovely, but it really means
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Speaker 4: which is in the cost of living. Is probably an idea,
Speaker 4: but there's no point taking it if you're not going
Speaker 4: to take it properly. So get some advice from your
Speaker 4: health practition your pharmacist, your doctor. It's been fascinating that
Speaker 4: the people with these issues, based on some of the
Speaker 4: reports of the research, they're actually approaching their medical practitioners
Speaker 4: say what do you think about this? So they're upskilling
Speaker 4: the GP, which is good because we need to stay
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Speaker 5: And can we take this as a preventative measure.
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Speaker 5: So it has to be a long term research project.
Speaker 1: Well it is.
Speaker 4: And even this, the mark of the research shows you've
Speaker 4: got to take it regularly, so it's every day. But
Speaker 4: I'm surprised at the feedback I get. We usually say
Speaker 4: you really need to take it for a couple of
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Speaker 4: get from men, particularly that's say, I'm noticing my family
Speaker 4: are noticing that I'm not as bad as I was,
Speaker 4: which I.
Speaker 2: Find very That's fantastic.
Speaker 3: Now, the medical drink that we are talking about is souvenad,
Speaker 3: So Gerald, how do we take it?
Speaker 4: It is a once a day drink, three flavors, vanilla, strawberry, coffee, cappuccino,
Speaker 4: anytime of the day which suits. There is a powder form.
Speaker 4: I've got a mate of mind that's just back from
Speaker 4: overseas who's been using this, and he took the powder
Speaker 4: and collected it from various countries. As you went around Europe,
Speaker 4: which they arranged, so the choice is there. But I
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Speaker 3: You can call three to discuss your health concerns, just
Speaker 3: like June from the Central Coast has done this morning.
Speaker 3: You wanted to discuss some kidney issues.
Speaker 9: No, I've got a psiatical nerve in my back and.
Speaker 7: You're having problems with the June, Yes, I am, and
Speaker 7: like I can't put I'm in bed now.
Speaker 9: But as soon as I put my foot down.
Speaker 4: Are you poor things?
Speaker 9: The pain goes up? But I can take I have
Speaker 9: got three stage three kidney problems too, but I can
Speaker 9: take Panadole extra. But on the package it says, don't
Speaker 9: take if you've got kidney problems. But that's the only
Speaker 9: thing that sort of stops the pain. And I can't
Speaker 9: get into the specialist for another two weeks.
Speaker 4: And is your GP helping you, June. Is the usur
Speaker 4: GP involved here?
Speaker 9: Yes, that you just said, we put this to this specialist.
Speaker 4: June audio look all like. An offer is that you
Speaker 4: hang in there until you see the specialist and make
Speaker 4: some notes. In the meantime, you've told us a lot
Speaker 4: this morning. The specialist needs to understand you're.
Speaker 10: So in valid.
Speaker 4: Invalid so far you can't get out of bed, so
Speaker 4: you need to write all those things about your frustration.
Speaker 4: Bear in mind your kidney issues. So a kidney specialist
Speaker 4: you're seeing. But your main issue, from what you've said,
Speaker 4: is you've got this sciatic pain and you need relief
Speaker 4: for that. There are other options other than parasitamore, but
Speaker 4: they need to be carefully managed. It's off the usual
Speaker 4: nonsteroidlank inflammatory because they interfere with kidney function, but there
Speaker 4: are other issues. You may be able to see a
Speaker 4: naturopath and if I can help any further, please get
Speaker 4: back in touch.
Speaker 3: You can google, as I said earlier, ask Gerald and
Speaker 3: get in touched that way. Hopefully that advice helps you there, Dune.
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Speaker 3: disease known as mild cognitive impairment when taken for three years.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the House of Wellness. One three, one
Speaker 3: eight seven three is our number. If you've got any
Speaker 3: health concerns that you wish to discuss this morning.
Speaker 2: But dry eye disease.
Speaker 3: It is a common condition which can lead to not
Speaker 3: only discomfort, but further vision problems as well, affecting a
Speaker 3: person's quality of life and also making their daily tasks
Speaker 3: just like reading, using a computer or your phone, even
Speaker 3: driving so difficult. So joining us this morning is doctor
Speaker 3: Margaret Lamb and optometrist to explain this further.
Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Margaret, good.
Speaker 10: Morning, good morning.
Speaker 7: It's lovely to meet you.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for taking the time to discuss
Speaker 3: this with us today. Now, how would somebody know if
Speaker 3: they are experiencing dry eyes? What are the usual symptoms
Speaker 3: when it's more than just say a limited or a
Speaker 3: one off occurrence.
Speaker 10: Yes, so someone in Australia dry eye is actually quite common.
Speaker 10: So over eighty five percent of the population is estimated
Speaker 10: to experience symptoms of dry at some point. So it's
Speaker 10: actually very prevalent. And although it might seem like it's
Speaker 10: really trivial, if you leave it untreated or if it worsens,
Speaker 10: it can actually get quite serious. Like you said, it
Speaker 10: can have a very negative impact on someone's quality of life.
Speaker 10: In fact, bad enough that studies show that some that
Speaker 10: have even just moderate or severe dry can say it's
Speaker 10: worse than having a heart attack. So it's important to
Speaker 10: know what to look out for and in case you
Speaker 10: have it or a loved one has it, how to
Speaker 10: identify it early. So those symptoms so you can identify
Speaker 10: it include that your eyes feel like you have a stinging,
Speaker 10: a burning, or a scratching sensation like there's a foreign
Speaker 10: body in your eye, or having red or irritated sore eyes,
Speaker 10: or being sensitive to light, or even experiencing blurry vision,
Speaker 10: feeling like you have eye strain, or feeling that you
Speaker 10: have eyes that just feel tired. But you know, what's
Speaker 10: really interesting is that people that actually have really watery
Speaker 10: eyes can actually have severe dry eye too, because that's
Speaker 10: when your body actually overcompensates from having the dry eye
Speaker 10: and then it causes it to overwater. So watery eyes
Speaker 10: is also possibly a symptom of dry eye disease too.
Speaker 5: That's me, that's me, Margaret. Is my eyes Well? I
Speaker 5: thought it was just because it was so cold. My
Speaker 5: eyes were literally just yeah dry. People actually stop me
Speaker 5: in the street and say, are you okay?
Speaker 2: Do you have eye? My left eye left?
Speaker 5: But Margaret, what actually causes dry eye?
Speaker 9: Then? Yeah?
Speaker 10: So, as I mentioned, like, it really can have a
Speaker 10: really bad impact on someone's life and the causes of
Speaker 10: dry eye is there's two main types, right. So the
Speaker 10: first type is when you're dry eyes dry out or
Speaker 10: they evaporate too quickly on the tear film, and that's
Speaker 10: because in the eye leads we have these really special
Speaker 10: oil glands called our Mybomian glands, and they're supposed to
Speaker 10: make this nice protective oily layer to stop our tears
Speaker 10: from evaporating.
Speaker 7: So when you.
Speaker 10: Don't have enough of your oily layer, that's called evaporative
Speaker 10: dry eye. And then the second type is when our
Speaker 10: eyes just don't produce enough tears, and then that means
Speaker 10: that they're deficient in the watery layer of our tears,
Speaker 10: so that type is called aqueous deficient dry eye. So
Speaker 10: the causes of and risks for dry eyes include that
Speaker 10: it's definitely very common when we age. Unfortunately, it's also
Speaker 10: very common for it took her when you get hormonal changes,
Speaker 10: especially at perimenopause and menopause. Women unfortunately are twice as
Speaker 10: high risk as men to develop dry eye.
Speaker 2: So we're going to get hysterical.
Speaker 10: Now you are just outnumbered today, Jeryl.
Speaker 4: So Margaret, I do have a question for you, and
Speaker 4: this is the quickly brain extrapolating here. I have a
Speaker 4: number of friends who are going in and have had
Speaker 4: cataract surgery, and usually four or five weeks before they
Speaker 4: are told go and by these drops usually and Cattio
Speaker 4: norm and others use these two or three times a
Speaker 4: day so that we can get your measurements correctly when
Speaker 4: we do your cataract surgery. Now, my extrapolation brain, if
Speaker 4: we kept our eyes more moist, would that reduce the
Speaker 4: risk of cataracts developing?
Speaker 10: Oh? So the reason why that said, and we're going
Speaker 10: on a segue, and I want to come back to
Speaker 10: causes of dry ik Jerald. But the reason why that
Speaker 10: is really important is someone going into cataract surgery has
Speaker 10: to have really stable dry eye because the surgeon is
Speaker 10: really worried that if the dryness is not stable, your
Speaker 10: cataract surgery go really well, but you get poor vision
Speaker 10: as a result of your cact surgery causing more severe
Speaker 10: dry eye, which takes a long time to settle down again.
Speaker 10: So it's not causing effect about you won't get cataracts
Speaker 10: because you don't have your dry eye settled. It's more
Speaker 10: to do with we want the side effect of potential
Speaker 10: dry eye sorted, so your cataract surgery goes really well
Speaker 10: this fall and after. Okay, So if it's all right,
Speaker 10: I'll go back to because I think it's really important.
Speaker 3: Yeah, before we let you go, can you quickly tell
Speaker 3: us what causes dry eye?
Speaker 10: Yeah, So, in addition to what we talked about, medications
Speaker 10: can sometimes increase the risk of someone getting dry eyes
Speaker 10: to antistamines, blood pressure, medications, antidepressants, got chroma medications, autoimmune conditions.
Speaker 10: Inflammation in the eyes causes it. Screen time, so we're
Speaker 10: all conscious of that. We blink sixty percent less in
Speaker 10: front of a screen. Our tears evaporate faster. The environment
Speaker 10: can cause dryers like air conditioning, heaters, winds, smoke, certain
Speaker 10: weather conditions, and contact lens whereas are susceptible. So you
Speaker 10: could get a better contact lens that could also dry
Speaker 10: your eyes out let's or get treatment for dry eye symptoms.
Speaker 3: So that's why so many people suffer from it, because
Speaker 3: there are so many ways that you can experience that.
Speaker 3: Doctor Margaret Lamb, thank you so much for taking the
Speaker 3: time to talk to us this morning.
Speaker 10: That's okay. I just want to also just add it's
Speaker 10: really important to make sure you get a preservative free
Speaker 10: formulation that lasts a long time, and some are PBS
Speaker 10: listed and some can be really effective in making sure
Speaker 10: that they hold the tear film down and PBS can
Speaker 10: mean it's seven times lower for pension as too, and
Speaker 10: speak to an ik professional pharmacist and then a pharmacist
Speaker 10: can also guide you to an optometrist or an ophthalmologist
Speaker 10: if they're still not enough relief. So I hope that.
Speaker 2: Helps, Beautiful Noorries.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Doctor Margaret Lamb one three one
Speaker 3: eight seven three is our number. Jeanette, you are in
Speaker 3: Melbourne's your question, My question.
Speaker 11: Is what is chemo? What actually is chemo therapy? Because
Speaker 11: you see it in movies people having chemo And I've
Speaker 11: got a friend who possibly has breast cancer and is
Speaker 11: now completely distressed and saying, I'm not to have all
Speaker 11: these poisons put in my body. I'm going to do
Speaker 11: it naturally. And I said, well, actually we really don't
Speaker 11: even know what it is, so can you explain it?
Speaker 4: Being very very briefly, genest these are these A medications
Speaker 4: that have hopefully been trialed and tested for years and
Speaker 4: US and US before they're available for patient care. So
Speaker 4: look it's a balance really and you get the best
Speaker 4: advice possible. And I hope you're there to support your
Speaker 4: friend and reassure them with whatever decision they make.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your call one three one
Speaker 2: eight seven three.
Speaker 3: Coming up next radio broadcaster and gotcha for Life founder
Speaker 3: Gus walland join us.
Speaker 2: Joining us here on the House of Wellness.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the House of wellness.
Speaker 3: Now, it is hard to believe that in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 3: men are still struggling to talk about their mental health issues.
Speaker 3: So joining us this morning is Gus Woland, who is
Speaker 3: a fabulous broadcaster but also the founder of Gotcha for
Speaker 3: Life Foundation.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 8: Gush, Thanks so much for having me guy, Thank you
Speaker 8: so much.
Speaker 3: Now, these stats aren't good, but we understand that nine
Speaker 3: people take their life in our country every single day,
Speaker 3: and seven.
Speaker 2: Of them are men.
Speaker 8: It's incredible, isn't it. Seven men a day, two women
Speaker 8: a day. And a stat that people don't talk about
Speaker 8: a lot is that one attempts every eight minutes in
Speaker 8: this country. So and you put all those sort of
Speaker 8: stats together, you can understand why it's just so sad
Speaker 8: and it's so shocking. And when I say those stats
Speaker 8: when I'm doing my talks, people google them because they
Speaker 8: can't quite believe them, because they just can't believe in
Speaker 8: this country that that would be the case. But we're
Speaker 8: certainly not on our own. Lots of other country is
Speaker 8: exactly the same. And that's why I've got Your for
Speaker 8: Life and Chemist Warehouse with their supporters out there working
Speaker 8: on prevention of suicide. And I think that's where we
Speaker 8: really need to focus. That prevention is the key, and
Speaker 8: we need to build the emotional muscle up of all ozs,
Speaker 8: these boys, girls, men and women and everyone else to
Speaker 8: make sure that they don't worry alone, that they have
Speaker 8: enough emotional must or to stick their hand up and
Speaker 8: ask for help.
Speaker 5: Gus, being a wife and also a mum to a
Speaker 5: teenage son, what is a way that we can get
Speaker 5: men to open up?
Speaker 8: As you've just said, yeah, I mean it's just just try,
Speaker 8: try and try again. And I know kids are very
Speaker 8: difficult at times depending on their age and their personalities,
Speaker 8: but if they feel that they can talk to mum
Speaker 8: and dad or someone a little bit older about absolutely everything,
Speaker 8: then you've really done the trick. That's the main thing.
Speaker 8: Whether it's yourself, and sometimes mums and dads have to
Speaker 8: take ego out and go, well, it's not going to
Speaker 8: be me. It might be the godparent, or it might
Speaker 8: be a teacher or a coach, or it might be
Speaker 8: a friend of yours. As long as they're talking to
Speaker 8: somebody about the stuff that's really important, that's really the key.
Speaker 8: And I do find it that the more that parents
Speaker 8: are a bit vulnerable. The more likely the kids are
Speaker 8: to think, oh, it's okay not to have all the answers,
Speaker 8: It's all right to bumble and fumble around a little bit.
Speaker 8: And that really is an absolute key thing for parents
Speaker 8: to make sure that you don't come across it you've
Speaker 8: got all the answers or time, because it's set such
Speaker 8: a standard for your kids to try to.
Speaker 7: Live up to.
Speaker 4: Gus Ter revy to talk to you, and I just
Speaker 4: need to let you know that the last time I
Speaker 4: had a Gus wall and hug my ribs, my ribs
Speaker 4: are almost better. Thank you, congratulations for these men's care boxes.
Speaker 4: Now these are available at Chemists Warehouse. But it is
Speaker 4: a really meaningful way of helping the organization Chemist's Warehouse
Speaker 4: fund the amazing work that gotcha for life. Does I
Speaker 4: mentioned this. I do a lot of public talking and
Speaker 4: I mentioned this all the time. It's a very simple way.
Speaker 4: It's not clinical, it's right down to earth and it
Speaker 4: basically summarizes with the work you do, the average person's
Speaker 4: view on where we're going, as in, reach out for
Speaker 4: help if you want to. No one's going to laugh
Speaker 4: at you, no one's going to make fun of you.
Speaker 4: But one meaningful way that we can all contribute is
Speaker 4: to just go and buy a men's care box. All
Speaker 4: it needs is your photo inside. But they might frighten
Speaker 4: people the way exactly.
Speaker 8: I got the thank you letter that yeah, that the
Speaker 8: photo was not what we're after, But now you're right.
Speaker 8: Chemist whare House have been our biggest supporter when we
Speaker 8: started nine years ago. And these care boxes, which you
Speaker 8: can get online at at chemistware house dot com dot au.
Speaker 8: They're twenty dollars, so buy one for a man in
Speaker 8: your life, whoever that may be, and there's one hundred
Speaker 8: and fifty dollars worth of value. So absolutely there's a
Speaker 8: gellet shaver in there that's worth twenty bucks in its
Speaker 8: own right. So it's really not about the box. It's
Speaker 8: more about if you buy the box or send the
Speaker 8: box to someone, what a conversation can start off the
Speaker 8: back of that, to go, hey, I thought of you.
Speaker 8: You're a man in my life that I care for
Speaker 8: or deeply respect or whatever it might be. We're not
Speaker 8: having enough of these what I call conversations of gravity.
Speaker 8: We're really good just chat chat, chat about banter, whether
Speaker 8: it's work or weather or the stuff that we practice
Speaker 8: but let's start having some conversations, get a little bit deeper,
Speaker 8: not bursting into tears every five minutes or having big,
Speaker 8: deep and meaningfuls, but to be able to start a combo.
Speaker 8: And this box is a really good to say, hey, buddy,
Speaker 8: I love you, Hand it over, have a bit of
Speaker 8: a look through it, and then perhaps that starts a
Speaker 8: conversation which may be exactly what your friend or person
Speaker 8: you care for needs.
Speaker 4: Thank you to those companies gus So, Super and Laurel Gillette.
Speaker 4: They are firmly supporting this gift box, and anytime you
Speaker 4: buy a product, five percent of that also goes to
Speaker 4: Gotcha for Life.
Speaker 3: And I've also got a shout out to the Matschip
Speaker 3: bands as well. My friend Irene brought one for me
Speaker 3: where we were at the checkout at chemist Warehouse and
Speaker 3: I'm proudly wearing mine this morning. I were every day
Speaker 3: so I think of my mate, and I also think
Speaker 3: of you every day. Gus So, thank you so much
Speaker 3: for everything that you do. You can check out Gotcha
Speaker 3: for Life and also head to chemist Warehouse dot com
Speaker 3: today you to buy one of those men's care boxes.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining us this morning.
Speaker 7: Cheers.
Speaker 8: Get more three kind of people than you, guys, So
Speaker 8: thank you for your support and big hugs to all
Speaker 8: of you.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: My ribs are almost biting.
Speaker 2: Back with more. Next on the House of Wellness.
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Speaker 3: Dry, gritty or irritated eyes, eyes that feel tired, red,
Speaker 3: or won't stop watering. You might have dry eye, a
Speaker 3: common condition caused by screen time, air conditioning, and even aging.
Speaker 2: You can try Cattoonorm. It can help. You can get it.
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Speaker 3: Flip Shelton, so wonderful to have you back in the studio.
Speaker 3: Jerald quickly, We'll see you next week. Google ask Gerald
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