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Radio throat

Dr. Daliah

Dr. Daliah

My throat hurts and I can't sleep so I'll message board it...

Nothing is going around the office, patients aren't sick... just asking for Viagra and Valium these days, and my kids have been ditching school so couldn't have picked up anything.

It could be my microphone. Coxsackie virus swabbing it now.....

but if all cultures come back negative, including strep and chlamydia,

then I'm sorry to say comrades..... we have a new disease. :eek:
 
I got up extra early this morning and I thought that was a good omen....

And now you hit me between the eyes with something new and scary!!!

I think I shall return to bed and just sleep all day. Surely I can't catch your new disease if I hide under the covers. ;D

I woud like to have naming rights... I want to name it after my first-born child who has spent a lifetime reporting back to me ailments I never knew existed... until she caught them and identified them.

In my broadcasting days I suffered from "Radio Nose". It was a combination of hay-fever and leaky storage tanks sometimes known as sinuses. Thank goodness for cough-switches.
 
DToTheJ said:
Dr. Daliah, have you ever considered Airborne? I swear by it. ;)
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Airborne = snakeoil

Their claim is basically that they don't prevent you from getting sick---but you would've been sick more often had you not bought our product.

Uh-huh.
 
LOL!! I've actually been sipping Organic Throat Coat tea and it helps...

speaking of naming rights, I thought I made up a new drink when I bartended called the Jolly Rancher...rum, fruit punch, sweet n' sour, sprite and watermelon mix, only to find out someone stole the name years earlier for a piece of hard candy.
 
So true S! I've been there with strain and its not fun. But this is some whacky microbial junk. Going to hit the Motrin before I go on air, and then afterwards consider making myself a Jolly Rancher.
 
Doc, I suffered from this all the time when I was on the air in Las Vegas. It's an extension of Vegas Throat. All I could ever do was keep everything moist and with purified -- not tap -- water. I kept the Pure Water Store on East Trop in business by myself for years :D

Heard you on K-Dawn when I visited over the Easter Weekend, keep it up!
 
Thanks Wyatt!!!

I think I wrote a piece for an industry magazine last year on how hosts should protect their throat, i.e. avoid alcohol, caffeine, chocolate (since it could increase acid reflux which destroys vocal cords), humidify frequently, and voice rest when not on air, an impossibility with 2 kids and a full practice.

But Alan Stock and Heidi Harris both swore by Organic Throat Coat tea, and I've been using that now frequently.

One of my sick patients probably gave me this cold last week so I'm implementing a "no breathing rule" in my office starting tomorrow.
 
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