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et ceteras. from ticks to mosquitos to jelly fish. what's the best way to keep the sting out of summer. >> happy fourth of july. i hope you enjoy the weekend, and we'll see a lot of people that are going to be out there in parks, near lakes, et cetera, so we want them to be aware of this. by the way this is not a killer segment. we talked last week about high blp and heart disease. that kills about 600,000 people a year. we see car crashes. thousands of people die. we're talking about few numbers. hundreds of people that may get into trouble with west nile virus of mosquitos. you recently talked about zika virus, et cetera. when you talk about mosquitos, one of the biggest risk factors is stagnant water. when you see water sitting around, you have mosquitos, obviously, we've talked about this. you want to make sure you cover your long sleeves, long pants, if you're at home, use air conditioner, use a screen. and these days, mosquito repellants actually work well. if you're not asthmatic, use

them and it's perfectly fine. talk about ticks, if you're going to be out in woods and walking through, that's exactly right always look. 25,000 reported cases of lyme disease in 2014. you're going to have the bull's-eye red rash you would find. and the way to do this is not just get rid of the tick. use a tweezer and make sure you take it off and use alcohol to clean it up. and a lot of times when you treat it with antibiotics, you do very well. >> if you've got kids, you've got to do a tick check every night. that's what you've got to do. >> make sure you don't have these little tiny -- >> especially areas you're not expecting. >> would that rash show up immediately if you're beaten by a tick? >> not immediately, over the next couple of days. but that's only 60% of the time. that's called a bull's-eye rash, where the inside is hollow and the outside is red. it's a bull's-eye rash, but you see it about 60% of the time.

people say, should i get my blood checked? right away, it's too soon. it's going to be negative at the beginning. it takes week before it turns positive. so we have to make a decision whether to treat. a point david just made, which is important, if you don't get that whole tick out of there and you're leaving parts in, it's much more of a risk of lyme disease. and i'm more likely to treat. also, deer fencing, get it around your house. that's important. spray against ticks, wear the long-sleeved clothing, and what you said, you've got to search for these, the bumps. >> the other carrier is also the dogs. the dogs are another carrier. >> dogs carry deer ticks. they fall off of deer. the other thing i want to bring up is this issue of sea lice. there's a big jellyish epidemic going on in country right now and the tiny tendrils that come off of the jelly fish are stinging people. there's allergies to them, people get out of the water, they've got these stingers in them. what you've got to do is you've got to try to wash it with warm water, not ice water. ice water makes it worse.

use like a credit card to get the tendrils out. you use vinegar. vinegar works really, really well for this. and calamine lotion. that's how you treat the stingers from -- if it starts to rub and you get a big bad rash, go to the doctor. >> if you have a real severe reaction, allergy from these jelly fish? >> you can. >> number one, make sure you use dr. siegel's credit card to get rid of those. not mine. this sea lice, it's hidden under your bathing suit and you may not see it and gives you a rash. and even dogs can go through a very painful rash. as mark mentioned, you don't need to use ice. use warm water to wash it away. and wash the bathing suit. >> so these things can be very harmful. >> if you have an early. any of the things we're talking about here, you can have an allergy to. you can be allergic to mosquito bites. if you start to get short of breath or start to get really fatigued or get a fever or the

thing starts to blow up, get to the emergency room. >> that's the key. don't ignore the symptoms. a lot of times when you see the doctor, when it comes to lime disease, now more doctors tend to treat this with oral antibiotics. just in case. so they don't have all the symptoms of joint pain and so on and so forth down the road. >> and that's hard to get rid of, lyme disease. >> if it stays in your system, it's great. >> the later you diagnose -- we just saw a story about kris kristofferson, who said he was forget everything. it's very hard to reverse at that point. >> and is there a cure to just get rid of it, lime disease? >> antibiotics work. the earlier you get it, the earlier you can cure it. >> yellow jackets and bees, people may not know they're allergic to them. i was stung by a yellow jacket and my glands in my neck and groin swelled a little bit.

i called the doctor, they're like, you've got to come right in. and you get the shots for a number of years pip never knew i was allergic until i actually got stung. >> what if you're a parent. i don't know. what if you're a parent and you're not sure. can you carry those epinephrine pens around? >> yes. but the likelihood that somebody would go into shock, you would have more probably like peanut allergies than getting one of these to really get you to this point. >> if you have a history of it, you should carry -- and take an antihistamine right away. a claritin or a benadryl. >> they say, carry a benadryl and carry an epi pen. but my point is, you may not know you have it, and suddenly whamo. >> get to the emergency room. if you start to have a problem breathing and swell up -- >> wear light-colored suits, take his credit card, and -- >> light-colored shirt for mosquitos, but ticks love light colors. >> what do you do?

>> take his card and go to a restaurant. >> if you're going to be in the jungle and exposed to the ticks, make sure that you put in your pants and your socks, you cover them, lonsleeves. and again, inspect for any of those and use repellants. >> i agree with that. >> enjoy the barbecue, guys. >> did he say walo? >> use those citronella candles, too. >> after this segment with the jelly fish and by the ways -- i'm staying watching the fox news channel. i'm not going to even grill or barbecue. i'm spending all this weekend inside. >> we'll bring it to you. >> watching this channel. >> i'll bring you a hot dog. >> there you go! >> well, speaking of all that stuff out there, pollen and mold, you know, that's another issue. what's the best way to deep your allergies under control this summer? we'll continue with that. not only scaring the hell out of us outside, but also, if we stay inside this weekend -- >> attacked by indoor mold. >> stay with us and we'll tell

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ask your gastroenterologist about humira. with humira, control is possible. welcome back to "sunday house kacall" for the july 4th weekend. now that the doctors have scared us about all that stuff outside. how about inside? common allergens can cause problems for a lot of people. but researchers say it does not have to be the case. dr. siegel, what should we look out for? >> now that it's july, people out there can breathe a little sigh of relief, because june is grass pollen month. and there's 50 million allergy sufferers in the united states. grass pollen is slowly starting to decrease now, but it's being replaced by mold and fungus. some of the same people that had grass now have that. how do you know if you have an early and not a cold?

itchy eyes, sore throat. you start to have a fever or start of green mucous, that's probably an infection. but the runny nose and itchy eyes and sore throat and fatigue, very common for general allergies. then i would say, you know, shower frequently, change your clothes when you get indoors, see an aller jest, who may talk about things like mold. >> what about mold and dust inside your house? >> it's interesting, what they all have in common is that they mess with your immune system. whether it's pollen or mold, they enter your system, through breathing, which we see now more often, between 5:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m., you're going to have the highest degree of these pollens, especially when it's dry and windy, you're going to be in trouble. so what happens when your mold or pollen gets into your system? your immune system says, i have a foreign soldier in my body. i don't like this. i'm going to react to it. and that's when the cells, all

of them start charging histamines. and you're going to have laser dilation. so you're going to have itchy eyes, your throat will be itchy, you'll have sneezing and coughing. the difference between this and the flu or common cold is that you don't have the feature, the body aches, so you know you have that allergies. so at that point, we say take antihistamines, because it calms down the symptoms. but really, you want to get rid of the source where the pollens are. if you're going to be working out there, make sure you wear a mask, because you prevent those pollens from coming in. if you have them in your nose, you want to use saline irrigati irrigation. and leave your shoes and clothing and your pants out there. because once you bring them in, it's the way it goes. and use air-conditioner, because by keeping your screens open, you're not doing yourself a favor. >> that's a great point, keep your shoes outside. >> but if we try to take our

clothes off, once we're on an airplane or anything. >> one last thing. i want people to also know, because this is not very common. you can get a vaccine, this is very important, talk to some of the allergy experts, you can get a vaccine before the season starts to boost your immune system, so the minute you get that -- >> what is that called? >> it's a vaccine they would give you to prepare you for the allergies. >> but would your body build up a resistance to that vaccine? >> no, in europe, they've been giving allergy vaccines for years. they're talking about giving the antiengine, you can get it in an injection. >> is that like getting a flu shot. >> it's called allergy shots. but now -- >> it's not going to get you sick, but arthel, now they have the ability to give it in drops you can take under your tongue. my son actually gets that. instead of a shot, you can get it under your tongue. it's not fda aperoved yet -- >> you say, is there an allergy

shot or something can i take under my tongue? the other thing you ask for, in my opinion, and again, you don't want to rush to medication, but if it's a severe allergy season, steroid nasal sprays can help a lot. antihistamine eye dropped called zatatar can help a lot. david's going to say, don't rush to the medication, but it may help you through a couple of bad months. i don't want to see people addicted to these steroid nasal sprays. >> just for the record, aisle not always against medication, but i think a lot of these medications, it's a knee-jerk reaction. my whole point -- my whole point about medications, it's not because i'm against them, i think people rush to get these medications and they have side effects. last we were talking about losing weight and doing healthy exercise and diet, yes, blood pressure medications help. in this case, allergy medications can help. but if you can avoid the source -- >> sometimes you can't. all of his suggestions about what you do, by the way, going

inside, air-conditioning, showering, shoes, all this is really excellent. on top of that, a lot of people end up needing these sprays. >> what about those hepa filters. >> you can get he pa filters that actually filter out grass pollen. absolutely. >> one last -- >> one last comment i would say is, that, you know, if you've done all of this and it doesn't work, there are superb allergy experts out there, who know their business, a lot better than most doctors. and they have ways to test, are you allergic to this, or is it something else that causes this. >> so go see them. >> that's what i did and went and got shots for years. and now i'm not allergic anymore. >> for those of you who won't take shots, you can have them under your tongue. it's helping a lot of people. >> i take my allergy shots. >> thank you, doctor. >> well, it is a common liver condition and it's not caused by drinking, but by your diet. we're going to tell you what it is and what you can do to avoid it. did you say whamo again? >> mm-hmm.

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>> dr., how does that happen? >> you know, that's a very interesting entity. liver is a big organ, one of the biggest ones we have in our system. liver is supposed to clear the restore the nutrition in. and 25% of americans, incidental finding and you go for some abdominal pain and the doctor calls you this is a fatty liver. this is nonalcoholic fatty liver. and they are not been drinking alcohol. and the risk factor is that 10% of your liver is filled up with fat. diabetes, high triglycerides and

obesity can lead to this. and a lot of times your tests could be completely norm and at the doctor is not aware of this. sometimes it could lead to swelling and possible sorosis of the liver and it is rare and it cause a problem. i would monitor this and i would not worry except follow up with the doctor to make sure he is going to be okay. >> it is called nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and a lot of people have it and the key there is nonalcoholic. and this is important as an inturnists and i see people are elevated levels and they say it is the lipitor, you have to look for hepatitis to see if -- as david just mentioned, it could sometimes progress. and could become severe, which is called nash. that is a leading cause of liver transplant in the united states. and 25% of the time that leads to liver failure and sorosis

where you get fatigue and spider arteries on you, when you turn yellow and your belly swells. so i don't want to scare people but if your liver functions are going up, don't let a physician say it is the medicines. it has to be investigated. fact that you are not a drinker is the key here. >> his weight is in control and everything. >> he doesn't have the common causes we're looking for. but i have to tell you, arthel, i see this a lot, where i see fatty liver and i don't have a cause. but guess what -- >> and do you have the same symptoms? >> there are severe examples of this. it could be very mild and i follow it and it could be severe. in all cases i would involve a liver specialist, not just myself. get a liver specialist and follow serial ultrasounds and make sure it doesn't get worse or you don't develop sore ice is. which david pointed out in the beginning. that may need you to have a liver transplate. >> and when we treated prostate

patients, this is what we see in the liver. i don't treat fatty liver. what i tell them is make sure you watch your cholesterol and your weight and triglycerides. they don't needily go to see -- -- necessarily need to go see -- >> that is a great point. and you change your diet, e if you are not a big drinker, get rid of alcohol because if it didn't cause it, it could -- >> could it be reversed. >> you could control it and stop it and ultimately it won't be a big problem for you. >> it can be reversed. a lot of it can be reversed with diet. >> coming up, have you heard about this. swimmer's ear. when you go swimming and something gets in there. and the doctors tell you what it is and how you can get rid of it. >> that is me swimming. bloomin' onion. aussie cheese fries. bloomin' onion.

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infection, that bacteria could get in and you want to make sure that you treat it with anti-biotics and steroids. >> and stay out of the water. >> and you jump up and down -- >> that helps. >> keep dry. >> happy fourth of july. >> take care. in her words, hillary clinton is speaking out about her e-mail server scandal and here meeting with fbi investigators and donald trump pounces on the optics. our political panel is here to break it all down. horror in baghdad as isis bombings kill at least 115. it is just the latest in a long line of deadly attacks around the world during the muslim holy month of ramadan. so what is being done as millions of americans gather to celebrate independence day tomorrow. we're going to take a closer look.