...that sound good? not being on this phone call sounds good. it's not muted. was that you jason? it was geoffrey! it was jason. it could've been brenda. time now for sunday house cal call. >> joining us as always is dr. mark segal, professor of medicine at nyu's medical center and author of the interpol, author of sickness and health book. >> and we have another doctor with us. >> good to see you. glad you had a good week. >> absolutely. the so-called happiest place on earth is right now not so happy. a measles outbreak that started last month in california has

morphed into the worst outbreak the state has seen in 15 years. this is a huge deal, dr. segal. i'll start with you. how does something like this happen? >> it starts off with someone not having the measles and mumps vaccine. which gives you 95% immunity and how good it is. it's supposed to last a lifetime. someone goes to disneyland where they're totally crowded together and not vaccinated and not ing cu baited and they don't know it and they start spreading to it other people. i want to warn people infants under the age of 1 are not all can't give this live virus vaccine to someone until they're 1 years old. that puts our most precious at risk. also, kids going to school get the booster right before they go to school. david was bringing up a great point before we came on here. should people be allowed to go to school if they don't get the

booster. maybe you're worried your child would have a side effect of the vaccine which has never been shown, no association whatsoever for the mmr and autism, you're putting all the other kids at school at risk by not having it. this is a public health hazard because measles is 90% contagious compared to the flu only 25%. if eric has the flu, the chances of him spreading it is 1 in 4. the chances of him spreading measles to her is 90%. >> i thought measles was stamped out in our country. >> that's basically true. for decades nobody was talking about measles and last year and especially this year the numbers are on the rise. >> do they know exactly why? >> i think 90% because of unvaccinated kids. some of it is because of the fear perhaps it's connected to autism and the science has not shown that getting the mmr

vaccine can cause autism. i know jenny mccarthy disagrees with what i'm saying. she's been a big voice with what she saw with her kid and then later with the diet, it's probably some genetic, whether it's genes or some external force that's causing this, could be a diet, or whatever it is. >> chemicals. >> eric, we're better at diagnosing autism now. we understand it a little bit better and still have a long way to go. to scare people to say this vaccine can cause autism, that's a mistake. maybe through the borders, we have kids coming from other countries not vaccinated and south america other kids coming and in europe the amount of vaccination has gone down. >> we covered that story extensively here. are they examined by the cdc,

the health authorities in the state of arizona? >> not to the extent of their vaccination records -- >> do you think that is a public health problem eventually? >> of course. that's a huge concern. i'm not into politics of this. from a health standpoint you have a lot of unvaccinated kids coming in, my child and his child are in danger. at the age of 12 to 15 months they get the first dose. the booster is 12 to 14 years. mark will get into this. you will have the runny nose cough very much like flu symptoms. four days after you have a very typical rash, telltale or this velvety rash you would see. >> is that over your face? i had it and i will never forget it, prickly and hurts all over your face. >> i can explain eric said he had it. once you have it, can you get it

again. once you have the shot, can you get it? >> if you've had it, it's a lifetime immunity. if you had both shots with the booster, 98 to 99% lifetime immunity. you may sometimes may have to have that check but in some cases it wears off. it can wear off. if someone is going to travel to disney world, i check and can see if they're immune. and eric about the border camps, by the time you're recognizing measles it may be too late. fever, fatigue, runny nose. you know what that sounds like? the flu. you get redeyes. very characteristic. inside your mouth, you have red spots with a red halo around them. a doctor like us would diagnose it that way. one more point i want to make, everyone out there to david's point about autism and jenny mccarthy. dying from the measles about 1 in 1,000 to 1 in 2,000 cases.

encephalitis, brain swelling, major complications, bronchitis, pneumonia, 2 in 1,000. that's way way way more than 1 in a million or 1 in 5 million risk you're taking with that vaccine. >> there's no evidence to prove this can cause autism. this is the third time we're saying it and i hope it gets through. i want to make sure though we mentioned disneyland twice, this has nothing to do with disneyland. it is safe. any time you have kids it has this type of problems. in colorado where the numbers are going up they're against immunization, they think the kids are getting too much of this viral load. quickly, we can have a debate about this but you jeopardize other kids in the public environment. >> what if your child got the measles and then you decided i want to get the shot, can you do that? >> you certainly can. the child is already immune at that point. i also want people to know, you

can spread this. the most common way to spread this is cough for sneeze traveling about 5 feet and lives on surfaces about two hours. to the point and david's point about disneyland, it's the close crowds the issue. in a school, church, synagogue, or in a place like disneyland, where everybody's crowded close together on a ride. >> it's the most contagious virus. with ebola we had no vacancy in. with this, we have and it can easily be stopped. encourage and get the evacuation sin is important. >> the most contagious virus known to man is the measles. >> wash your hands a lot. >> wash your hands but get the vaccine for your kids. >> absolutely. get it before they go to school. >> i love eric about washing hands. >> the best way -- >> go to restaurants, people don't wash their hands. >> one message we can bring here

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back now on sunday house call. january is thyroid aware neness month, dedicated to spreading awareness of thyroid disease which currently affects about 20 million americans. doctor, what is thyroid disease and how do you know if you've got it. >> that's important. thyroid is an endocrine organ

that looks like a butterfly that sits on our neck. believe it or not, it's a big secret. it's responsible for all our metabolism, the rate of metabolism of a thyroid. it affects your brain and heart and digestive system and skin and everything else. that's why it's a big secret, good to know about this. what are we talking about? the hormone thyroid coming from the pituitary for the brain is responsible for this. if you have low thyroid, that's called hypothyroid, all the symptoms we talked about. fatigue, tired, loseing weight and your hair. we talk about nutrition and weight loss. the way to know if your thyroid is low. check your tsh. it is the hormone you should check. thyroid stimulating hormone and look at your t 3 and t 4.

all this information -- >> wait. your t-3 and t-4. >> it is low and kicks back and it can be high. >> animals can have that. >> absolutely. what happens if you have too much of them. thank you. good point. >> my cat died from that. i'm sorry. >> too much is hyperthyroid, your heart is beating, you're anxious, your engine is running way faster than it should. you lose weight a lot despite the fact you eat a lot. you sometimes have diarrhea and digestive not working well. one is an inflammatory process that your body or immune system attacks your thyroid. that attacks your body and another is thyroid cancer, we see a lot of it. the way you do it is to do a good exam. i'm sure you do a lot of this. >> is it women as well as men?

>> 10 times more in women. 50 million are underdiagnosed. i think it's important to know how to define it. how do you diagnose. can i say something? i know a woman. it's not me because i would say. another woman having trouble getting pregnant. everything, they checked her thyroid levels and corrected it and she got pregnant. >> it affects your menstrual cycle and whole body. >> hugely important that every woman trying to get pregnant or is pregnant be checked for thyroid. five times more women than men have thyroid disease. 10 million are low thyroid. low thyroid we talked about. constipation, hair loss, fatigue. the number one system i see is depression. people get very sluggish, can't tolerate the cold, i'm looking for thyroid out of the shoot. and both with hashi motos and

graves, because the body is making anti-bodies. with graves disease, you feel anxious, sweating, feel flushed, your eyes popping out. in that case, it's due to also antibodies. both times the immune system is attacking the thyroid. one more thing i want to add. at the beginning of this segment you showed a real wimp on there trying to examine a thyroid. i will take my life in my hands now and examine a very prominent surgeon. it's about not being wimpy like that guy we showed. the thyroid is here. when david swallows. a doctor has to stand behind you. swallow, david. i feel his thyroid coming up into the notch here. normally i would tell him to take his tie off and feel it underneath here. this is the way it's done. if you want to do it yourself, arthel, you drink a glass of water. >> you can do it over here.

>> you can examine your own thyroid? >> absolutely. by putting your finger over that notch. >> what are you looking to feel for? >> any lumps or bumps. then you can get an ultrasound. a biopsy. this is a great opportunity for dr. siegal waiting for four years to choke me. >> this could go very wrong. >> aside from david having a normal thyroid, here's the good news eric is looking for. this is so treatable. if you have low thyroid, i can give you something just replaces the thyroid and you're back to normal. it's great. >> how long do you stay on it? >> usually for life. also, you have to monitor. >> absolutely. >> because sometimes the doctors end up overshooting and you go from low thyroid to hyperthyroid and many studies have shown can cause osteoporosis if you're on these medications a long time. >> bottom line, think thyroid

disease. >> if something is wrong with your system, think thyroid disease. >> and i didn't feel like choke ing the doctor but i didn't find anything wrong with him. >> and you can check on my facebook and we'll let you know all the data is. >> he's sending you a bill. >> yes. and i have to get over this choking business. >> i was hoping for a little more action myself. very good, doc. >> wait for next week. >> ooh! >> as the only girl in the room, i will ignore all of these guys and stay focused and here we come. should you worry about not taking your vitamins? there is a virtual sea of supplements out there. the doctors are here to navigate that straight ahead.

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time now for "should i worry," our weekly segment about everything that worries us. this viewer is asking, i don't take any vitamins or any other supplements. should i worry? dr. somati, should she worry? >> i think vitamins are for people not getting all their minerals and nutrients. if you're always on the go, you're always stressed, you're not sleeping well, you just don't have time to eat healthy food, then i think it's a good idea to get supplements. the problem is we think more is measureier and we ov merrier and we overdo. for example, we found vitamin a is good for you, then we found

out later on it causes prostate cancer. we said calcium is great for you. you need calcium. but then if you take too much of it, you could get kidney stones and cause other things. i think there is a very fine line as to how much you take and how much you don't take. given the fact that our food has a lot of fat, sugar and salt, then i think you need to be careful about having a good nutritionist, having a good dietitian. if you're getting added fruits and vegetables and fortified food, you're okay. if you're not, i think having a multivitamin that's a balance would pinpoint vitamins. for example, let's say i'm worried about losing my hair. i may want to add a little more biotin to my supplements. individualized is the best way, and that's what i would do. >> you talk about a nutritionist. people can't afford that. how do you know? >> as an internist, i check for vitamin deficiencies in every

patient. i want them to know where they are. vitamin d is a hormone, and most people in this climate is vitamin d deficient. another one i like is folic acid. especially for pregnant women, but even if you're not pregnant, it's been proven it reduces the risk of heart disease. vitamin b12. they lose the ability to absorb it after a while, and for vegetarians, it's in meat only. vitamin b 12, you have to take it under your tongue. >> as far as antacid medications, you have to -- >> right. i want everyone to have a balanced diet. lots of grains, fruits and vegetables.

vitamin k is in most of these multivitamins, so a lot of people are taking the multivitamin -- >> spinach, vitamin k? >> if you're on a blood thinner, you have to watch out for that. >> you say sometimes you take potassium. for people on diuretics or taking water pills, you take calcium. a neighbor looks at another and says, hey, i'm taking this vitamin, you should be taking it. it can cause heart disease or kidney disease. talk to someone. look at your whole panel. .net just ta don't just take this on your own. >> and talk to your pharmacist, because if you're taking medication, you might not want that. >> you may need some, but you don't need them all. >> all these studies are not well studied, so be careful. >> i still take my flintstones. >> and also washing your hands.

>> physicians show there is not an advantage taking a multivitamin to live well. not an advantage. what you eat for breakfast could be key to a longer life. we'll be right back. thanks for the ride around

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and back now to "sunday house call." want to live longer? >> yeah. >> of course. now they say eating oatmeal could be a key. a study finds people who eat more grains lower the risk of cardiovascular death by as much as 50%. oatmeal, huh? >> i'm such a fan that i'm going to post some oatmeal recipes on my facebook this week. it lowers cholesterol. it's the first tool on my page to lower cholesterol. if you have oatmeal, maybe you won't have all that bad stuff, your bacon and omelot. i love that it's unsaturated fats and not saturated fats. the only problem is it has a lot of carbo hihydrates in it and 1 calories. if you're on a low-carb diet, you might have to say this is my only carb of the day. >> it gives you a balance. it has high fiber so it balances

your sugar. you don't have to crave. you also get a lot of vitamin d and niacin and it shows it reduces death from cardiovascular people in 100,000 people. start your day with oatmeal. that's a good one. we start this hour of "america's news headquarters" with a fox news alert. i'm doug kellway in for shannon green. there was gunfire over the president's house. after they heard these shots, they saw cars speeding away. they are in search for a suspect. peter? >> reporter: right now the secret service is combing the vice president's property looking for evidence of a pair of suspicious incidents last night. first at about 8:25 p.m., a car driving outside the perimeter sped by and fired multiple