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HOST JOAN CARTAN-HANSEN:
HI I'M JOAN CARTAN-HANSEN
WELCOME FOR OUR D4K WEB ONLY.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.
TALKING ABOUT BODY WASTE.
DOCTORS LET'S GO TO OUR FIRST
CALLERS.
LET US SEE IF WE CAN GET OUR
FIRST CALLER, BRIENNA?
ARE YOU THERE?
BRIENNA: HI
CARTAN-HANSEN: HI,
THANK YOU FOR HANGING IN THERE.
WHAT'S YOUR QUESTION?
BRIENNA: DOES CARROTS ACTUALLY
HELP YOUR EYES?
CARTAN-HANSEN: DO CARROTS
ACTUALLY HELP YOUR EYES?
THAT'S NOT TYPICALLY A BODY
WASTE, BUT THAT'S A GOOD
QUESTION.
DR. NAYA ANTINK, PEDIATRICTIAN:
YEAH WE CAN ANSWER THAT QUESTION
QUICKLY.
BRIENNA THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
THERE ARE CERTAIN VITAMINS IN
CARROTS THAT THE EYE USES TO SEE
AND PARTICULARLY VITAMIN A AND
SO YES WE DO THINK THAT CARROTS
HELP BECAUSE OF THE VITAMINS
THEY CONTAIN FOR YOUR EYESIGHT.
CARTAN-HANSEN: FROM SAMANTHA AT
MRS MANITOU'S CLASS AT RIVERSIDE
WOULD LIKE TO KNOW, "IF YOU
DRINK GRAPE SODA WHY DOESN'T
YOUR PEE COME OUT PURPLE?"
DR. HEATHER OWENS, PEDIATRICIAN:
THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
WELL, DIFFERENT COLORED LIQUIDS
ARE MADE THAT WAY BY DIFFERENT
CHEMICALS IN THERE AND DIFFERENT
PIGMENTS.
SO ALL OF THAT GRAPE SODA THAT
YOU DRINK HAS TO MAKE A REALLY
LONG TRANSIT TO GET OUT INTO
YOUR URINE.
SO IT IS ABSORBED THROUGH YOUR
INTESTINE AND PUT THROUGH YOUR
BLOOD STREAM JUST LIKE WATER OR
MILK, THAT ARE BETTER THINGS TO
DRINK THAN GRAPE SODA (LAUGHTER)
AND YOU'LL JUST, ONCE THEY GET
TO THE KIDNEY THE KIDNEY WILL
ALWAYS DO IT'S THING WITH THEM
AND SOME OF THOSE BIPRODUCTS
THAT ARE MADE IN THE KIDNEY WILL
BE MORE APT TO TURN YOUR URINE
YELLOW.
SO THOSE CHEMICALS THAT MAKE
THINGS PURPLE OR RED OR ORANGE
LIKE ORANGE SODA WILL GET
REABSORBED SOMEHOW THROUGH YOUR
GUT AND NOT MAKE IT TO YOUR
URINE.
CARTAN-HANSEN: CONNER IN
MRS. WOODALL'S CLASS AT DALTON
ELEMENTERY WOULD LIKE TO KNOW,
"WHEN YOU WAKE UP AND RUB YOUR
EYES WHAT ARE THOSE EYE BOOGER
THINGS AT THE CORNER OF YOUR
EYES.
ANTINK: THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION
CONNER AND SOMETIMES WHEN YOU'RE
SLEEPING AND YOU'RE MAKING TEARS
JUST LIKE YOU ARE ALL DAY LONG
TO LUBRICATE YOUR EYES, IF THEY
DON'T DRAIN DOWN YOUR TEARDUCTS
INTO YOUR NOSE, IF THEY HANG
AROUND THEN THEY KIND OF STICK
ON YOUR EYELASHES AND GET SORT
OF THICKENED UP LIKE GOOBERS.
SO WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE
MORNING THEN YOU'LL FEEL SORT OF
CRUSTY GOOBERS AND WHEN YOU WIPE
THEM AWAY THROUGHOUT THE DAY
THEN THE TEARS YOU MAKE WILL
JUST DRAIN OUT.
SO THAT'S WHY WE USUALLY HAVE
THEM WHEN WE WAKE UP AND NOT
NECESSARILY FOR THE REST OF THE
DAY.
CARTAN-HANSEN: LAKOTA AT
MRS. WOODALL'S CLASS AT DALTON
ELEMENTARY WOULD LIKE TO KNOW,
"WHY DO YOU HAVE TO CLEAN YOUR
EARS?"
FOR THAT EAR WAX, WHAT IS IT
ABOUT EAR WAX, WHY DOES THAT
HAVE TO BE THERE?
OWENS: WELL IT HAS TO BE THERE
AND IT'S GOOD NOT TO CLEAN IT
OUT.
IT'S A NORMAL PART OF LIFE TO
MAKE THAT EAR WAX, TO PROTECT
YOUR EAR CANAL AND TO PROTECT
THE INNER WORKINGS OF YOUR EAR.
SO KEEP IT THERE.
DON'T CLEAN IT OUT.
SOMETIMES IT BOTHERS YOU, PEOPLE
WILL TELL, WILL SAY THAT IT
ITCHES OR THAT IT IRRITATES
THEM, BUT IT'S BEST EVEN WHEN
IT'S IRRITATING YOU TO LEAVE IT
THERE.
CARTAN-HANSEN: OKAY.
CALEB FROM MRS. BOWE'S CLASS
WOULD LIKE TO KNOW "WHAT'S THE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ARTIFICIAL
TEARS AND NORMAL TEARS?"
ANTINK: THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION
CALEB.
ARTIFICIALLY TEARS, I THINK, ARE
TYPICALLY A SOLUTION OF SALT AND
WATER THAT IS LIKE OUR NATURAL
TEARS THAT YOU CAN BUY IN A
LITTLE BOTTLE.
AND IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH
DRY EYES OR YOU FEEL LIKE THERE
IS SOMETHING, A PIECE OF DUST
THAT GOT IN YOUR EYE AND YOUR
NORMAL TEARS AREN'T FLUSHING
THEM OUT THEN YOU COULD SQUIRT
IN SOME OF THE ARTIFICIAL TEARS
TO HELP FLUSH THAT OUT.
CARTAN-HANSEN: LOGAN AND IVY ARE
HOME SCHOOLED AND HAVE A
QUESTION: "HOW MANY TIMES A DAY
SHOULD I POOP?"
OWENS: YOU SHOULD POOP USUALLY
ONCE A DAY.
EVERYBODY'S DIFFERENT.
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO POOP TWICE
A DAY, SOMETIMES EVEN THREE
TIMES A DAY CAN BE NORMAL.
SOMETIMES EVERY OTHER DAY MIGHT
BE A MORE NORMAL EXPERIENCE, BUT
OFTEN TIMES, PRETTY MUCH THE
NORMAL IF YOU LOOKED AT EVERYONE
ACROSS THE BOARD WOULD BE ONE
POOP A DAY AND THAT'S JUST IN AN
EFFORT TO GET RID OF ALL THE
STUFF THAT YOU'VE INGEST FOR
THE, THAT YOU'VE EATEN THAT
YOU'VE TAKEN IN FOR THE 24 HOURS
TO JUST MOVE THOSE ALONG TO GET
THEM OUT AS FAR AS WASTE
PRODUCTS.
CARTAN-HANSEN: JOSEPH FROM
DALTON ELEMENTARY FROM
MRS. HUNT'S CLASS WOULD LIKE TO
KNOW, "WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU
DIDN'T SWEAT?"
ARE THERE PEOPLE WHO CAN'T
SWEAT?
ANTINK: THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION
JOSEPH.
THERE ARE SOME RARE CONDITIONS
WHERE PEOPLE HAVE DIFFICULTY
SWEATING.
ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE SWEAT
IS THAT WHEN THE WATER LEAVES
OUR BODY, EVAPORATES IT COOLS
OUR BODY DOWN WHICH IS WHY WHEN
WE'VE BEEN RUNNING AROUND OR
EXCERSICING THAT WE GET HOT AND
THEN WE SWEAT.
IF YOU WERE UNABLE TO DO THAT,
THAT WOULD BE ONE WAY THAT YOUR
BODY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO COOL
DOWN AND SOMETIMES IT CAN
OVERHEAT AND ACTUALLY
POTENTIALLY BE DANGEROUS.
CARTAN-HANSEN: MADISON FROM
DALTON ELEMENTARY WOULD LIKE TO
KNOW, "WHAT CREATES PUS?"
NOW WE TALKED A BIT, IF YOU WANT
TO WATCH THE VIDEO THAT WE
PRODUCED TO TAKE A LOOK THERE'S
A LITTLE ABOUT PUS ON THERE.
WHAT IS THE BASIC, WHAT
BASICALLY CAUSES PUS TO FORM?
OWENS: USUALLY IT'S THE WASTE
PRODUCTS FROM OUR OWN BODY
CELLS.
OUR BODY WILL MAKE PUS TO FIGHT
OFF INFECTION.
SO IF THERE'S BACTERIA LIVING ON
OUR SKIN CELLS THAT ARE NOT
SUPPOSE TO BE THERE, OR LIVING
JUST UNDERNEATH, SAY A SKIN
INFECTION, OUR OWN BODIES IMMUNE
SYSTEM WILL SEND OFF HELPER
CELLS, THESE WHITE BLOOD CELLS
WE CALL THEM.
THEY'LL GO IN THERE AND THEY'LL
ATTACK THE BACTERIA.
THEY'LL BREAK IT APART.
SO PART OF THAT MUCUSY STUFF
THAT IS PUS IS BROKEN DOWN
BACTERIA AND A GOOD PART OF IT
IS THE STUFF THE WHITE BLOOD
CELL HAS TO MAKE IN ORDER TO
BREAK THAT BACTERIA APART AND TO
KILL IT.
CARTAN-HANSEN: J.L.
FROM IDAHO FALLS WOULD LIKE TO
KNOW, "WHEN WE SNEEZE WHY DOES
SNOT COME OUT OF OUR NOSE?"
ANTINK: GREAT QUESTION.
(LAUGHS)
CARTAN-HANSEN: AND TO
GO ON FROM THERE, THERE'S A
QUESTION FROM KAYLA WHO WOULD
ALSO LIKE TO KNOW, "WHAT MAKES
US SNEEZE?"
SO WHAT IS IT THAT TRIGGERS A
SNEEZE AND WHY DOES IT ALL COME
SHOOTING OUT?
ANTINK: THOSE ARE TWO SEPARATE
BUT RELATED QUESTIONS.
SO A VARIETY OF THINGS CAN MAKE
US SNEEZE.
USUALLY IT'S SOMETHING THAT GETS
INTO OUR NOSE AND IRRITATES OUR
NOSE.
SO WHETHER IT'S, YOUR ALLERGIC
TO DUST, OR POLLENS, OR IF YOU
HAVE AN INFECTION YOUR NOSE GETS
IRRITATED AND THEN IT FEELS LIKE
YOU HAVE TO SNEEZE.
YOUR NOSE, AND YOUR MOUTH AND
YOUR THROAT MAKES YOU SNEEZE.
NOW WE ARE MAKING MUCUS IN OUR
NOSE AND OUR MOUTH AND OUR
THROAT ALL THE TIME TO FLUSH
AWAY ANY KIND OF DUST THAT GOES
IN OR ANYKIND OF BUGS THAT GO IN
AND IF YOU HAPPEN TO SNEEZE WHEN
YOU HAVE A BUNCH OF THAT MUCUS
PILED UP THEN YOUR GOING TO
SNEEZE OUT THE MUCUS AS WELL.
CARTAN-HANSEN: AND THAT'S WHY
YOU ARE SUPPOSE TO SNEEZE INTO
YOUR ARM NOT ONTO YOUR HANDS.
OWENS: THAT'S RIGHT, ABSOLUTLEY.
ANTINK: YOU SNEEZE INTO YOUR
HANDS AND THEN YOU TOUCH
SOMETHING AND THEN THAT'S WHERE
THEY GO.
CARTAN-HANSEN: YOUR BODY IS
GETTING RID OF IT BECAUSE IT'S
NOT A GOOD THING.
ALRIGHT WE ARE GOING TO END
WITH, WE'VE GOT A FEW POOP
QUESTIONS AND I WANTED TO GET TO
THE POOP QUESTIONS.
THERE WAS A BIG QUESTION ABOUT
WHY DO WE HAVE GAS?
WHAT IS IT ABOUT THE GAS THAT'S
SMELLY?
HOW DOES THAT FORM?
OWENS: GAS IS FORMED BY OUR
SMALL INTESTINES.
SO WHEN FOOD GETS IN THROUGH OUR
STOMACH AND ITS MIXED UP IN THAT
LITTLE SLUSH AND GETS INTO OUR
SMALL INTESTINE.
OUR SMALL INTESTINE WILL HAVE TO
BREAK SOME OF THAT DOWN.
SO AS ITS BREAKING DOWN SOME OF
THE PROTIENS AND SOME OF THE
FATS YOU WILL MOVE SOME OF THE
GASES OUT OF THAT INGESTED FOOD
BUT YOU'LL ALSO MAKE A BIT AS
JUST KIND OF A BI-PRODUCT OF
YOUR SMALL INTESTINES DOING YOUR
JOB.
AND IT WILL HAVE TO LEAVE
SOMEHOW AND SO OFTEN IT'S MUCH
EASIER TO MOVE DOWN THE PIPE
THAN IT IS TO MOVE UP THE PIPE
SO ANYTHING THAT'S MADE INTO OUR
SMALL INTESTINE BASICALLY BELOW
OUR STOMACH WILL MOVE DOWNSTREAM
AND OUT.
CARTAN-HANSEN: SO GRAVITY IS OUR
FRIEND.
OWENS: GRAVITY IS OUR FRIEND.
CARTAN-HANSEN: BAILEY WOULD LIKE
TO KNOW, "WHY DOES SOME POOP
COME OUT SOLID AND SOME LIQUID?"
ANTINK: IT'S A GREAT QUESTION
BAILEY AND IT JUST DEPENDS, IT
MAINLY DEPENDS ON HOW FAST THE
FOOD WHEN IT BECOMES POOP GOES
THROUGH OUR INTESTINES.
IF IT GOES THROUGH QUICKLY THEN
THERE IS MORE WATER LEFT IN THE
FOOD SO ITS LIQUIDIER.
IF IT GOES THROUGH VERY SLOWLY
THEN THERE'S A LOT OF TIME FOR
THE BODY TO TAKE THE WATER FROM
THE FOOD BACK INTO OUR BODY
LEAVING LESS WATER IN THERE AND
IT COMES OUT HARDER.
CARTAN-HANSEN: AND WHY IS POOP
BROWN?
DIFFERENT SHADES OF BROWN?
OR SOMETIMES GREEN?
OWENS: POOP WILL GET ITS COLOR
BY USUALLY HOW LONG ITS BEEN IN
THE SMALL INTESTINES.
SO OUR LIVER WHICH HELPS BREAK
DOWN SOME OF THE WASTE FROM OUR
BLOODSTREAM WILL PUMP INTO OUR
INTESTINE THROUGH A LITTLE DUCT
OR A LITTLE CHANNEL THE STUFF,
THE PIGMENT, THE CHEMICAL THAT
MAKE OUR POOP BROWN.
SO AS THAT LEAVES INTO OUR
INTESTINE IT WILL KEEP THAT POOP
BROWN, NO MATTER WHAT YOU ATE.
IF YOU ATE ORANGE SQUASH OR
GREEN BEANS OUR POOP WILL END UP
BROWN BECAUSE OF THOSE PIGMENTS.
NOW IF YOUR LIVER JUST HASN'T
HAD ENOUGH TIME TO PUT THOSE
PRODUCTS INTO YOUR INTESTINE
BECAUSE YOU'RE SICK AND YOU'RE
MOVING YOUR DIAREAHA THAT'S
OFTEN TIMES WHEN YOU'LL BE
ABSENT OF THE PIGMENT THAT IS
BROWN AND IT WILL BE A LITTLE
GREEN OR SOMETIMES A LITTLE
ORANGE IF IT HAS MOVED FAST AND
YOU'VE EATEN SOMETHING ORANGE.
CARTAN-HANSEN: DOES IT MATTER IF
POOP IS, COMES OUT CURLY OR IN
LITTLE CHUNKS OR A BIG LONG
POOP, DOES THAT MAKE ANY
DIFFERENCE AT ALL IN YOUR
HEALTH?
ANTINK: NOPE.
CARTAN-HANSEN: NOPE?
IT'S ALL GOOD.
OWENS: AS LONG AS IT COMES OUT.
ANTINK: AND IT'S NOT HARD.
CARTAN-HANSEN: NOT TOO HARD.
(LAUGHTER)
CARTAN-HANSEN: WELL
DOCTORS THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
I APPRECIATE YOU TAKING THE TIME
TO APPEAR ON OUR D4K WEB EXTRA
ANSWERING ALL THESE QUESTIONS.
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