1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: Welcome to Wellness sun Mass. I'm doctor Nicole Saffire and 2 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 1: this is your weekly rundown on this gloomy Halloween here 3 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:11,120 Speaker 1: in the Northeast. I'm not sure what it's like where 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: you are, but here it's quite gloomy. Something really interesting 5 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: happened this week, and I use the term interesting lightly. 6 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: One of my kiddos was homesick. Now, mind you, I 7 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: don't have small babies. I have school age kids and 8 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 1: an older child. But one of my school age kids 9 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: was homesick, and you had a fever. And mind you, 10 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 1: low grade fevers I don't treat. Obviously, that is the 11 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: body's natural way of fighting infection and inflammation. I think 12 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 1: it's a good thing. However, as a mother, any mom's 13 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: out there knows, we always get a little nervous at 14 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 1: night time in case that high fever creeps in. As 15 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 1: a mother, as a physician, and for all three of 16 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 1: my children, I've always alternated, you know, a tile and 17 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: al and a motrind like product when they have high fever. 18 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 1: That's kind of what we do. All of a sudden, 19 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: I found myself pausing, saying, shit, cad, I be giving 20 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 1: my child thailandol and why am I making that pause? Well, 21 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: we've heard President Trump now in press conferences and also 22 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: by posting on social media, not once, not twice, but 23 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:17,760 Speaker 1: several times saying, not only should pregnant women not take 24 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: tailan all because it may affect the developing fetus, but 25 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 1: he's also said, moms, don't give your kids tailanol. And 26 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 1: the problem that I have with this statement is President 27 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: Trump doesn't just make things up out of thin air. 28 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: Someone obviously told him something, and that person had to 29 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 1: have been referencing some sort of data. I would like 30 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: to know what is the data that was presented in 31 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:48,279 Speaker 1: that meeting that gave President Trump the idea that mothers 32 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: should not be giving thailandol to their kids. I think 33 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: it is really irresponsible for this administration to make comments 34 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: and then not also be wholly transparent about the data 35 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: that backs up those comments. President Trump may be right, 36 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 1: but we wouldn't know because they haven't shared with us 37 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,640 Speaker 1: how they came to that conclusion. I found it very frustrating. 38 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 1: I decided to post about it on X about my frustrations, 39 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 1: And let me tell you, while I had some people 40 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:21,239 Speaker 1: applauding and agreeing with my frustrations, the majority of people 41 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 1: took my frustration as criticism of the president, and the 42 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:29,519 Speaker 1: reality is it's not criticizing the president. It's actually saying 43 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: I believe him when he says things. Therefore, I would 44 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 1: like to know what was told to him. I'm actually 45 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: more frustrated with the people who are feeding him information 46 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: because they're keeping that from the American public. And while 47 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 1: I demanded transparency in the administration when President Biden was 48 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: in the White House, I'll continue to do so when 49 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:52,360 Speaker 1: President Trump is in the White House and beyond, because 50 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:54,919 Speaker 1: that's just who I am. So I really would like 51 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,960 Speaker 1: to see out of this administration what is causing these 52 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 1: statements to be made by the President and by the 53 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 1: AGHS secretary. Another interesting thing this week a big study 54 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 1: out of Massachusetts General up in Boston. They looked at 55 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: eighteen thousand women who were pregnant during March twenty twenty 56 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 1: to May twenty twenty one, remember early on in the 57 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:18,520 Speaker 1: COVID pandemic, And they looked at women who had a 58 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 1: COVID infection versus not having a COVID infection, and they 59 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,639 Speaker 1: found a one point three times higher risk of babies 60 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: being born and developing a neurodevelopmental disorder like autism when 61 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: the woman had been infected with COVID nineteen during her 62 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: pregnancy compared to babies born to women who did not 63 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: have a history of infection. One thing that I found 64 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: very interesting in this. First of all, males were more 65 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: likely to be diagnosed with autism. This is something that 66 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: we have seen in many studies and what it is 67 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: concluded is that the male developing brain is more sensitive 68 00:03:55,200 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 1: to immunological changes in the mother as the baby is 69 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: developing in utero. So if a mother gets infected and 70 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 1: elicits that immiological response to try and fight that infection, 71 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 1: that negatively impacts the developing brain and even more so 72 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 1: in the developing male brain. Also, they noted that infections 73 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: later on in the pregnancy, second trimester, third trimester were 74 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 1: also significantly linked to a higher risk of the child 75 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:29,560 Speaker 1: developing a neurodevelopmental disorder. Again, this is something that we've 76 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: seen historically in the past with other infections. The later 77 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: on in the pregnancy that the mother is infected, the 78 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: higher likelihood that the brain and other parts of the 79 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: body may be infected. So definitely good information, especially as 80 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: we know COVID continues to circulate. It is now cold 81 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 1: flu in covid season as I like to call it. 82 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: And while for the majority of people, covid is it's 83 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 1: you know, a can be a cold, it can be 84 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 1: at the flu, it can be kind of whatever it 85 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 1: is for you, but in it's pregnant women, it can 86 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 1: be detrimental to their children, so it should not be 87 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 1: taken lightly. Thanks so much for listening to Wellness and 88 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: Mass Weekly Rundown. I'm defining a cool sapphire happy Halloween. 89 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 1: Make sure you listen to the podcast on iHeartRadio or 90 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts, and we'll see you next time.