>> less than zero. >> that's it for this week's show. thanks to my panel and for all of you watching. i'm paul gigot. we hope to see you here next week. time now for "sunday housecall." >> joining us, as always, is dr. marc siegel, author of "the inner pulse." >> and dr. david samadi, chairman and professor of urology. good to see you both, docs. >> good to see you. >> we begin with a tragic story in new york. a beloved and very well respected television reporter suddenly dying of a brain aneurysm while on assignment.

she was riding in the news van returning from reporting a story. dr. siegel, this really hits me at home because my mother was the same age, 49 years old, an actress on a cbs soap opera. she woke up with a headache and died three days later of a brain aneurysm. what are they and are they hereditary and what do we know about them? >> i'm sorry to know that. they are more common that people think. 1 out of 50 people in the united states have brain aneurysms and most don't know about it because you don't know until something goes wrong. sometimes you get a warning but most of the time you don't get a warning before the aneurysm bursts. and i aliken it to a tire. you get a brand-new set of tires on your car, it looks perfect but there could be a tire -- because arteries are under pressure -- there could be a

tire with a weak spot. it starts to balloon out and, bam, you get a flat or you get a blowout. i brought a model of the breain. this is very, very tiny. they like or burst and then you get a bleed. worst headache of your life is what you usually say. i don't know if she said that but it's the worst headache of your life, nausea, stiff neck. we can save you about 50% of the time. but two-thirds of those people end up with permanent deficits. the sooner the better. if you have a family history, you need to get checked. >> i was told it's not hereditary? is that true? >> it's not all hereditary and anyone who has a first-degree family member should be checked. and david will tell you about the risk factors but high blood pressure is certainly a problem with it. >> and is there any way, when you're dealing with these, to have any symptoms to know that

it could be coming on. the fame writer wrote a book saying, i want to thank my brain for remembering me and he had surgery in arizona about that. >> he was one of the few lucky ones that had some symptoms, a headache. you may have a headache a week or two before it happens, nausea, or a stiff neck. most of the time it's no symptoms. but if you smoke or you're a drug user, high blood pressure, you need to get scanned. the best way is to look at the blood vessels but in the emergency room, we do a c.a.t. scan. certainly everyone with a family member ought to have an mri. >> dr. samadi, is there any way to prevent this? >> well, that's the problem. i think all of them are asymptomatic. there are no symptoms. if you have blurry vision, if you have severe headaches, stiff necks, changes neurologically,

you may want to consider getting a c.a.t. scan or mri. certainly knowing risk factors are important. female more than men is a risk factor. smoking and high blood pressure. when you have high blood pressure, it pushes that and can rupture the aneurysm. we see about 6 million people in the country but only 30,000 ruptures. half of them end up dying and the other half that actually stay, half of those end up having a lot of complications and issues. if you're not a smoker or if you're smoking, stop smoking. family history and genetics plays a big role. women in their 30s and 40s may have this issue and once you recognize it, if it's about 10 millimeters or less, we may want to observe it and get more c.a.t. scans or -- >> what do you mean? 10 centimeters. >> if the size of the aneurysm is between 5 and 10 centimeters, you may observe it and not go through surgeries.

a lot of time what happens is through intervention, radiologists can put a clip over the aneurysm and block it from the rupture. the problem with aneurysm is, if you look at this brain, if i can borrow this for a men, around this brain, there's a scar. so there's no room for any kind of bleeding. once you have a rupture of the aneurysm from the circumstance kill of willis, what we call the cerebral artery, once you have that rupture, there's nowhere that it can go. that pushes the organ in the brain and she unfortunately went unconscious on friday. i'm so sorry about your mom, she's obviously leaving two sons behind and it's a tragedy. how do you recognize it? you don't. >> i have a follow-up question because you mentioned the size of the clot. two questions. first, obviously it's only doctors who would be able to rec

f recognize that and detect that. what if off problem with circulation? does that play into it at all? >> that's a good point. usually if there are some elastic issues with the arteries or vascular problems or trauma, sometimes you may end with an aneurism. typically lower extremities are not a risk factor. you have to pay attention to stiff neck, double vision, severe headache and get the c.a.t. scan. the sooner we can find it, the better we can treat it. >> you said sometimes -- my mom, just boom. there's no symptom apparently with lisa, sitting in a live van coming back from the story, talking and suddenly something ruptures. >> because there's a weakening that you don't know about. the tiny ones that david was

talking about is the size of the end of a pen and the bigger size is the size of a quarter. by the way, you can develop aneurysms from infections in the brain or trauma. if you're in a car accident, you can get one. i'm not trying to scare anyone but this is the number one reason that people come to my office and say, i have a headache, do i need to worry about this? it's the worst headache of your life. that's how it is described. >> i would tell your daughter, for example, if you have a family history and there's a real risk factory, go ahead and get a c.a.t. scan. >> no matter your age? >> i would. >> i agree. >> and our thoughts and prayers certainly are with lisa's family and her colleagues here in new york. >> for certain. and i'm sorry about your mom as well. >> thank you. spring is in the air and so is allergy season. next, why this year is expected to be worse than previous years and what you can do about it. e e to be worse than ooe

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well,l, after such a miserae winter for most of us, many people are finally ready for spring. they still won't come here to new york yet but for some it's a bittersweet feeling as we learn that allergy season is coming earlier than expected this year. dr. samadi, why is the season coming early and what can we expect? >> winter hasn't even gone away. we're still dealing with the cold. part of it is because of the drought and rainfall that you see on the west coast and also southwest area. that's why we have this a little early. allergy is a result of the pollen, the foreign objects,

they come into your body and your immune system is confused and you've heard of histamine. once you have histamine released in your body, you're going to get all of this runny nose and itching and symptoms of allergies. so what's the best way to do this? make sure that -- usually these pollens are high when it's wind and dry weather and early in the morning. so avoid any of those. and certainly -- >> so you're telling me don't go out during the early mornings? i keep the window open, too. >> close your windows. if you're out there and you come in, change your clothing, take a shower, leave the shoes outside and use this filter which is hepa. >> the hepa filter. i have that on my vacuum cleaner. >> and i'll post all of this on samadimd.com. there's a whole list of things to do to slow down some of these

allergies. >> dr. siegel, what can we do? >> get it early like we're doing today because spring is just starting and the problem this year is that you had a very, very cold winter in most places and now you're getting a lot of snow melting and rain water and the pollen is hitting. everyone out there who is an allergy sufferer say they checked the pollen count. is it ragweed or birch. if you have be a allergy to birch, you're likely be allergic to fruit. i know you like bananas. >> how do you find this out? >> you go to an allergist. >> that's absolutely correct. don't just pop the antihistamines.

can i give you a steroid nasal spray. there's something called singulair. >> but that's prescribed? >> exactly, arthel, and we really need to go to prevention. frequent showers, use the filters, use sunglasses. don't exercise in the middle of the day and avoid the pollen that you're allergic to. >> you mentioned how do we know if the ben drill or the over-the-counter medication is lasting? how do we know to come to you for something prescribed or if you need something more? >> if you're having a persistent nasal drip or watery eyes and the anti-histamine is making you tired or you're getting a dry mouth, most of the people that come to me think that they have a cold. >> it's important to see allergy doctors that are experts in

these particular things. there are so many tests that they can really find out what you're allergic to. there are injections that almost three months before they would get an injection per month, once a month in anticipation to make your immune system if you really have it every year. i think that's the way to go. >> and it's desensitizing. >> see? you know something, last year on this show we talked about this new item that is out there in addition to the allergy shots, you put something under your tongue and that's for people who hate shots. >> all right. say that one more time. >> desensitizing. a shot every two weeks. i know about that. >> take off your clothes. take off your clothes when you come inside, change your clothes. you know what i mean? >> all right. we'll watch it. >> prescription for shower. well, coming up here on "sunday housecall," some patients say it's heart stopping. the science behind heart

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. back now to our "sunday housecall," and for our should i worry segment. every week we talk about everything that worries us. that's a lot. one viewer wrote i was recently diagnosised with hardening of my heart. i'm on high blood pressure medicine. should i be about this? dr. siegel, what happens when your heart starts going boom, boom, boom, when you are lying down and palpitations start that can be alarming.

>> what these beats are is basically electricity comes from the brain to the upper part of the heart, it tharnger charges it. then it goes down and charges the lower part of the heart, the muscle, and bam the blood goes out to the body. the heart is a pump and it's triggered by the brain. if you get a charge in the upper heart, you get a skipped beat and then the next one is harder. that's what you feel is a palpitation. in her case, and i don't want to diagnose her over the television. but it sounds like it's high blood pressure leading her heart to be thick. aic thissened heart from high blood pressure leads to these extra beats. they are benign, nothing to worry about, but the high blood pressure is something to worry about. you can get these from stress, you can get this from coffee, you can get it from alcohol. in the vast majority of the cases it's completely benign. however, sometimes it can lead to a worse arit reia, something called atrial fibrillation where the heart is quivering, that's a

problem. what can you do about the hardening of heart. >> you have got to get the blood pressure under control, medication, get rid of the stress. >> dr., sometimes my heart goes -- for no reason. i don't have high blood pressure. how do you know you have the other symptoms of a more serious problem? >> that's an excellent question. you know, occasionally you may get this tachycardia or the palpitation that you spoke about. we have to study here. because based on one question you cannot diagnosis what she has. yes, she has blood pressure. she has this premature atrial contraction, pac. what is it? you have atreatment and ventricle. that's the heart. atreatment ventricle, all of a sudden you have atreatment, atreatment ventricle. it leads to an extra beat. i would get ekgs, check poe tas

yaum yum, is there family history. based on that you may get an echo cardiogram. we can say it is benign, induced by coffee, stress. stress can do this, throws out an extra beat. if it's something more, then there are beta blockers and calcium channel blockers. >> but only a doctor would know. >> electrolytes is key in an ekg. if you have an abnormal potassium or magnesium level, you have to get that taken care of. >> atrial, and ventricle. one takes the blood away from the heart and the other to the heart. >> if there is an extra beat with either of the atreatment or ventricle, it can be different things. see your doctor. there is more in this particular case. the kernel is when it turns into atrial fibrillation it can cause

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things that come from the cancer. and in this case they are studly the good and bad bacterias in the dog owners. they think that having a dog is as good as eating yogurt that you can get good bacterias in your gut by having a dog. overall, i have to say that i give up, i think it's time to get a dog. we just posted three options on my blog, tell me what i should get. >> i love isabelle, when i am with her, i feel better. >> there are studies that show that dogs decrease blood pressure, decrease stress. actually, there is a study that shows you are better off with a dog to low your blood pressure than an ace inhibitor, a medicine that i prescribed. i want to talk about other animals. ann romney talked to me about the therapeutic value of horse back riding. i talked about disabled people,

they are not able to walk but they get on the horse and they bond with the horse. even gold pishs. when i got sammy a gold fish. it kept dying. >> if you think gong gold fish are going to lower the blood pressure and have a therapeutic value? i doubt it. they are bringing dogs to the hospitals. they are wearing ids, they have ids and we take them to the chronic patients, cancer patients in the hospital to lower blood pressure and lower the risk of heart disease and stroke. it is amazing. on national tv i admit mime i am going to start looking for a dog. >> and drink my coffee. >> and i also want to add, cats -- we love cats, too. >> persian cats. >> persian cats. >> all right a couple prescriptions there, zpaugs cats. >> sound good to me.

thank you. >> that is sunday house call for now. wauch us every sunday. >> enjoy the rest of your sunday. ng. enjoy the rest of your sunday. a fox news alert a helicopter crashing into a home in loornlds. our affiliate is heading to the scene. but they are reporting one person is dead as firefighters battle the fwlooims flames as smoke billingoed into the air. we will bring you more on this story as it breaks. stay with us for more. welcome to america's news hds. >> our top story this sunday afternoon, the u.s. has now pulled out all of her personnel from yemen. that is in the wake of the escalating violence there. as it appears iran influenced? well, it's only spreading. the country's security situation getting worse as officials say those shiite rebels