Oh noes. I relate hardest to these two characters so I want them to get along because the interests synergize so well ... But you're right lol their priorities would be very different
You’re right infectious disease would be appalled by the farmers’ approach to health while the farmers would call infectious disease a germaphobic sissy. And rural medicine would take the side of the farmers of course.
Ok, so I’m a clinical microbiologist, but the lecture on tick borne diseases was almost word for word what I lectured my sister on while hiking on the last family camping trip 😂😂
I This was literally me two weekends ago reminding my camping friends to only drink the filtered riverwater and to not eat the delicious looking strange berries!
Right?? I go camping for several weeks out of the year, and a few of my friends are already dealing with the after affects of Lyme disease. This is one of my biggest worries
I'm an infectious disease epidemiologist and my BFF is from Alaska, so this is pretty much what hiking with us is like, only we alternate disease facts and bear facts.
gotta learn to take a proper ID history - going back to dinosaurs isn't good enough - go back to primodial soup ;-) one cell knows another (micro joke........ehhhh its funny to me)
I'm a pathologist and though I casually hike, I never knew there was such a thing as a hiking microscope. Now I must have one. Can you recommend one to me?
People keep forgetting the outside is full of stuff that is not human. And there's people with the clear mission to study anything BUT humans (and humans as well but they are just another mammal... We mostly do it on the side to make medicine feel better about not really being 'science'). You folks wouldn't believe the excitment of biologists when mobile phones became legit little zooming devices. Most of us will still carry a folding lens though...
😱 Oh my. Imagine the horror, when you're trying to examine a tick and there's no microscope anywhere in your backpack..! Getting goosebumps just from the thought. Next you're gonna say you don't have your hiking tweezers
There is an infectious disease doctor that saved my father’s life and she absolutely LOVES when you do the ID skits. After I thanked her for what she did for my family we had a good laugh together about ID taking a history 😂😂😂
“Don’t drink the river water” is also the advice I got from my school backpacking troupe plus a whole lesson on water filtration and what kind of water was less likely to make you sick. Once my family hiked to a small trickle of a waterfall with algae growing on the rocks where the water flowed-natures warning sign. My brother said “let’s drink it!” and reached out to cup some water in his hands. I instinctively yelled “NOPE” and slapped his hand away. They looked at me like I was crazy while I explained to them that’s how you catch dysentery. It was extra difficult to get them to not drink the water because we are, of course, all from a very rural area and goddammit if my farmer-descended family isn’t stubborn.
Okay so serious question, are people actually just out there drinking river water? Like, people who aren't in some remote corner of Papua New Guinea pr something?
Most of my patients with arthritis share they are puzzled by it. I ask whether they ever had ticks on them from hikes or growing in a rural area. Then, they describe Lyme Disease like symptoms. Many follow-ups were made with their immunologists. We need more PSA's like these.
@@sheilavillamil2193 Or possibly just that arthritis has become a lazy catch-all term in many instances where further testing/questioning was warranted. Even someone with no medical training could tell you that arthritis is something with "stiff joints, pain when moving, limited range of movement, and swelling." But since it's culturally understood, even someone with no formal medical intervention can easily just assume all they've got is arthritis and it's just this shitty thing they have to deal with for the rest of their life. That being said.....if you figure the amount of damage a tick bite can do to somebody's body in a few years without intervention, who knows what decades of misdiagnosis can do. It's kind of like how we're discovering that long-term exposure to high lead levels makes people less cognitively intelligent while stunting their emotional maturity......so all the violent, angry, incoherent stereotypes/viewpoints/behaviors of many Boomers and Gen Xers starts to make a hell of a lot more medical sense lol (and why kids raised near racing tracks started doing better in schools once they switched to unleaded gas)
Thank you for following up on their symptoms in such a thoughtful way. My family member has Lyme disease and has experienced souch joint paint as part of the disease process.
Nurse here. When we were t In the Rocky’s last summer this was ME! We had deer go through our camp site. They were majestic but risky. My kids had their pants tucked SO deep in their socks that it made my husband say “really?” I talked all about rocky mountain spotted fever and Lyme. My dad is a biologist. He kept calling after we got home to see if we had any flu like symptoms! This is pure perfection doc! Thank you!!!!!
Fun fact: a friend and I only brought one standard bottle of water each on a high school hiking trip alongside a river and ran out well before reaching wherever it was we were going. We had no idea how much longer we'd be out there, only that we weren't even halfway through (since, y'know, not turned back yet) and we were getting super thirsty. Everyone else only had their own limited supplies of water, too, and we weren't exactly popular at school. We also knew it'd be unsafe to drink from the river, even if we had a reasonable way to get down to it, drink, and back up to the trail without getting yelled at or left behind. There only seemed to be one option other than spending the rest of the trip feeling like we were gonna die of thirst: hope what I'd been told about spring water being safe was true and that I could locate one along the path, and proceed to look for the absolutely coldest little stream or oddly-placed and trickling-along puddle I could find. Did find something that matched the description, though I'm not sure if it really was a spring or not. Couldn't detect any issues with it with our very limited human senses (actually "tasted" better than the water at school). Others knew what we did, so it wouldn't have been a mystery if something when horribly wrong. Luckily, neither of us got sick or have shown any issue in the years since. My parents were furious when they found out that the school hadn't brought a bunch of extra water along for us idiot students, though. Years later, I now have one of those fancy filter straws. I just... have yet to need it, so it remains sealed in its package.
The “why are you crying?” and “Oh look a bunny! Tularemia.” 😂 Dying! I am not a doctor nor do I personally know any, but I still appreciate this content. So good! You’ve got such a great sense of humor. 😄
@@fakesidekick It is extremely disease causing. Seriously I've had to memorize about 12 different types of illness caused by staph aureus alone it is a beast
As a doctor , it amazes me how much he had to study microbiology and infections to make this video and Dr.Glaucomfleckens creativity is through the roof..man you're good!!
Lmao as I parasitologist this is my new favorite video of yours haha. I ALWAYS do a tick check everytime I'm in the wilderness. One of my favorites is telling others about Echinococcus!
I just got back from a Cub Scout camp out and found this hilarious. The tick part of saving the tick is actually part of the official protocol. The training I did with my den was first aid and when it came to what does every parent do during and after the camp all the parents replied check for ticks!
My dad is a nurse… we lived in the woods. This is already very familiar. Every time we went on a walk we ended it by checking for ticks. We were told to avoid certain plants, and got to hear horror stories about infected cuts and people who ate the wrong thing. We also got to hear more stories of other kids who got hurt and were examples of why we couldn’t do things like jump on trampolines or eat raw cookie dough among other things. Keep the kids healthy! 😂
My dad isn't an infectious disease doc, but he spent a brief time working as an ER tech and this just brought back childhood memories.....and I need therapy now.
As someone who lived in the middle of Mosquito Country, Tick Country, and had regular advisories that the local lake was overrun with brain eating bacteria... I felt this.
As someone who's a former public health educator who's also an avid birder, I'm feeling all of this, especially the tick info. I carry tick tweezers in my bag at all times, even when I'm simply strolling the urban wilderness, because I *know* they're out there and they've found me one too many times.
I keep getting this really annoying ad about a doctor who used to be overworked and underpaid now earning $$$$$. I guess the YT algorithm be assuming things about me
Someone who lives in the land of the ticks Nova Scotia Canada and I hike all the time with the dog. I have a hiking sack it has a first aid kit and a tick kit in it. So tick checks are always for me and the puppy dog. There's a really great spray that's made here in Nova Scotia it's called Atlantic it works really well. Pretty sure they deliver pretty much everywhere in the world. I think.
when my cat came in I used to say "how many animals in this fur? it should be one! only you!" when we did tick control. She thought we were cuddling. She wasn't wrong.
New Yorkers who live anywhere near woods are trained from very young to check for ticks. Our state DEC and Cornell have extremely detailed pages of what ticks are found in our state (too many of them), What diseases they cause, how to identify them at all stages and before and after engorgement, how to avoid them on you, you kids, your pets and in your yard. New York prefers we don’t get Lyme Disease. That is one disease you want to catch early.
100% this. My cousin went nearly three years without a proper Lyme Disease diagnosis ("oh you're too young to be seriously ill! It's just your anxiety"🤮) so the advancement of it absolutely fucked her body up.
Only thing is, I usually check for ticks at the end of the day or when we go back in the house because those things are everywhere. So far this year I have found 3 ticks, all walking on clothing. Also my tick prevention doubles as sun protection some days (fully covered in light colored clothing).
As a past academic in parasitology, I would actually quite enjoy that walk just to listen to that fountain of knowledge, no sarcasm. He reminds me a bit of the vet professor I met during my graduate years, he was great, he literally wrote the books on wildlife parasitology in Australia.
_Furiously scribbles every disease that hasn't been a TPWKY episode yet so I can think of things to say when they ask for suggestions for each season_ YAY FOR MORE ID CONTENT! I identify so heavily with this character lol thanks for the amazing videos
@@marley7145 Lol right? I'm grateful the Erins have such particular fondness for arthropod-vectored stuff since there's a good deep pool of options there XD
@@ItsAsparageese agreed. Though to be honest if they decided to talk about the mechanism of action of automobile accident injuries, I'd listen to that, too. (...and now I'm considering possible quarantinis.)
@@marley7145 Oh definitely, I love traumatic injuries myself. Er, learning about them, that is (although acquiring them can be reasonably fun sometimes too lol)! Yeah they could do one heck of a fascinating two-parter on just transportation-related accidents, that would be an insanely cool topic! I love ID topics but I love it when they step outside that niche too. I think lightning & the bends have been some of their niftiest eps so far.
Hits close to home. I lived in an area with endemic tickborne encephalitis (a very nice viral disease with 5% mortality with best treatment and frequent life-long sequalae). Our forest trips were kinda like that: tuck clothes, check each other after returning, and if you find a tick then preserve it for testing for the virus.
Oh wow!! I didn't know tickborne encephalitis is now considered a 'thing'! I remember trying to explain to doctors 4 years ago that my brain felt like it was 'burning' among other symptoms (and got blank stares or was asked about my mental state). Finally was diagnosed with neuro Lyme but I wonder if I had brain inflammation too. Anyway, lived to tell the tale, but grateful I ran across your post!
@@sorin.n That was in Russia back in early 2000-s. Fortunately, tickborne encephalitis is not present in the US, so we don't need to fear it. But if you want, you can do PCR tests on ticks. CDC local labs do that. I believe they mostly test for Babesiosis.
I actually have a little tick remover tool that has a small magnifying lens as part of it's structure, for identifying the tick and also checking the bite site for remaining mouthparts. It's a hiking must-have.
I said the "I am going to check you for ticks, take of your clothes" to my wife in the evening and she thought it was an innuendo, I then proceeded to get my flashlight and tick tweezers and check her thoroughly. To her surprise and taken aback look. So far: one out of five chance that she has a tick when we are out in the wilderness. So I'm always precautious .
I love a good tick borne illness lecture, and in nature no less! 👏👏👏 For real though, thanks for the lecture not enough people get but everyone needs! Chronic Lymie and babesiosis patient here who grew up with obsessive tick checks because my sisters and I were infected in-utero due to doctors not asking the "have you traveled outside the area" question in the late 70s when our Mom got the OG recognized strain on a trip to visit family on the East coast. Mom was determined we wouldn't pick up any other illnesses, and to our knowledge (and careful physician observation) we didn't. We were also the "brave girls" in our friend groups who could deal with bugs, stickerburrs, and garden snakes. 🤪
Man this reminds me of when i was in the army where the other dudes in my unit mocked me for being fat and not being issued a weapon (my eyes are supper bad) and played up how masculine they were Riiiight until a cockroach showed up at which point it was all yelling and "for the love of god you come kill it please" Being able to deal with bugs is the best.
Awesome! I camped out in the woods with friends of mine once a year, and trust me we are always checking each other for ticks. Lucky for me and the rest of them, there’s been no ticks in any untoward places
Emergency doctor will go mountain biking and getting his femur repaired by ortho later. The ophthalmologist will go glamping with Jonathan. The dermatologist will accidentaly touch poison ivy. Nephrology will help everybody out with water and electrolyte tablets. OB/GYN will have to postpone the hike because having your period when you're out in the woods is annoying (speaking from experience). ...
It depends on if the ticks carry diseases where you live. Its all risk assessment. If you look at the comments there are people in areas with ticks who regularly carried diseases going "this is literally how we do it" and people in places where that's not the case going "ha ha fictionalised and paranoia" and neither is wrong for their circumstances
@@DimT670 The problem with that is that Lyme disease is actually more wide spread than the average person realizes. Maps of endemic areas for Lyme show that urban/near urban areas are the highest risk, when most people associate ticks/Lyme with wilderness. The increased mobility of pets/people has produced dramatic increases in the incidence of Lyme disease.
"I'm infectious disease and I'm gonna check you for ticks" This reminds me of a House episode where a girl is allergic to everything even inside a hospital because she has a tick on her genitals, only for house to discover it during physical exam on the last part of the episode.
Fun fact: Apparently the actress playing the girl with the tick had a crush on Hugh Laurie. So she left him a note when he was supposed to be looking between her legs.
Ever since I got what you called Colorado tick fever and what Mom called Rocky Mountain spotted tick fever when I was two, she implemented the strip search and destroy protocol every single night. I think I may have found the source of my PTSD. Gee thanks Dr G 😳
This is wild I go to school at Dart and thought I saw you walking through town the other day and did a huge double take, but was like…trick of the eye… BUT just saw you gave a talk here and now the NH woods!! happy to see the ticks didn’t get to you and I’m not going crazy
There is 1 disease you can get on hikes that he didn't mention- PTSD. Specifically PTSD from learning all those diseases. But it's alright, you're only susceptible if you work in either human or veterinary health care. Kind regards from the veterinarian who just diagnosed 4 dogs in 1 days with Lyme disease.
I thought you were going to say PTSD from finding a dead body😂 it's always the old lady walking her dog or a bunch of kids going fishing that find the dumped corpses in the woods😂
An honest question of curiosity-how do you vets diagnose Lyme disease in dogs? What tests do you run? I ask because, anecdotally, it seems faster and easier to diagnose Lyme Disease in dogs than in humans, at according to my research? (Well, once you’re past the initial barrier of: “dogs don’t have words and so they can’t describe their symptoms”.)
I just can’t say it enough.. everyone of his videos is perfect! He’s a genius! He’s actually a genius.. he’s so amazingly smart (and so funny 😂 😂) in every field! He can’t just be an eye Dr. He’s a superhero 😅
Get on my level infectious disease, I carry tick tools with me everywhere because I have a gift for finding them on my friends animals when petting them and smothering them with love. Tweezers are just not as prepared as you can be. LOL But seriously, I do carry the tick tool, and I have actually used it to remove a tick on a person this year. She came into the dance class after mine asking if anyone had tweezers just for that reason and I whipped out the tick removing tool instead.
Infectious disease doctors are so rare... I'd listen to one in if I found one in my hiking trip. -especially if there's some people around for security-
This kind of feels like me at school. I’m known as that guy who knows every disease. Except, I don’t have a doctorate degree, and I don’t know every disease. No one does, you can’t.
Give the little kids who delivered their lines perfectly an award! They were brilliant. Talk about scene sealers. And they it without having any screen time!
As someone with immune issues this is the same type of fear I've had to train myself out of, i feel well represented and like if ID and I ever met we would have to have a talk sometime lol
"I'm infectious disease and I'm gonna check you for ticks" sounds like an oddly specific pickup line.
60% of the time, it works every time.
@@brentives4688
Right, it worked for Brad Paisley.
@@The_Kentuckian 😂😂😂😂
Pretty sure it's one of Infectious Disease's favorite songs after a hike lol.
@@AFS-ht7bg “That doesn't make sense.”
He’s so brave to go out when it is so dangerous
He works in a hospital, it's nice to lower the chance of getting sick every now and then
It’s for the children.
What about Alpha Gal? Now there is a tick borne disease that is life altering (at least if you eat red meat).
It must be calming to be aware of every eventuality ; )
If he's not gonna go out and discover new diseases, then who will?
As someone who grew up in a home surrounded by woods, I don’t think that Infectious Disease and Rural Medicine are going to get along very well …
Ooh. That could be the next couples therapy episode.
Oh noes. I relate hardest to these two characters so I want them to get along because the interests synergize so well ... But you're right lol their priorities would be very different
You’re right infectious disease would be appalled by the farmers’ approach to health while the farmers would call infectious disease a germaphobic sissy. And rural medicine would take the side of the farmers of course.
@@riverstein7251 Just tell them that getting a tick bite might give you an allergy to red meat that can last for years or your whole damn life.
The episode we didn't know we needed!
I liked that he recounted all the tick diseases in alphabetical order👏🏿👏🏿
Right? It's like disease ASMR 😌
For the doubters.... It's still flexing because Lyme is caused by Borrelia, in case you don't already know...
Such a professional 🤌🏾
Oh I missed that it was in alphabetical order, I was too busy checking them off my mental list
@@buildtherobots Lol, same! 😂
“What can kill you?”
“Everything!”
“And where does it live?”
“Everywhere!”
I love the enthusiasm 😂
In my experience, kids are bloodthirsty little monsters who love this kind of thing.
This was my favorite line! 😂😂😂
@@NinaWashington Mine too! lol
I mean, it’s not wrong😂
more like carefully learned caution bc if its alive - it wants you dead
Ok, so I’m a clinical microbiologist, but the lecture on tick borne diseases was almost word for word what I lectured my sister on while hiking on the last family camping trip 😂😂
I This was literally me two weekends ago reminding my camping friends to only drink the filtered riverwater and to not eat the delicious looking strange berries!
This is why I tell everyone opossums are our friends. I will fight anyone who tries to hurt opossums. They eat the ticks so less people get hurt
@@frankdroidjazz512 I totally agree with you about the water, but did you check on the berries? It's worth looking up whether they're edible!
Ticks are one of the disease vectors I fear the most.
Right??
I go camping for several weeks out of the year, and a few of my friends are already dealing with the after affects of Lyme disease. This is one of my biggest worries
"of course I have tweezers, I'm on a hike"😂😂
What, you don't bring one along?
If I hike, especially with my dogs, I've at least got tweezers if not also small scissors and spare hemostats and other miscellaneous tools lol
@@alexruddies1718 I tend to forget it along with my antibiogram:(
@@josecordova32 you don't think ID has the antibiogram memorized?
A tic key is a serious tool.
Infectious disease knows how to party, wish someone would care about me enough to check me for ticks
Pobrecita...
Go see a doctor or NP, they get paid to care about your ticks!🤣🤣
There's also a country song
Relana Cooper, That's a dangerous thing to say on the internet. Do you know the kind of people who are on this thing?
@@DChrls what can I say... I trust the glauk flock 😊😇
I'm an infectious disease epidemiologist and my BFF is from Alaska, so this is pretty much what hiking with us is like, only we alternate disease facts and bear facts.
how much bear facts can one have?
@@AgraxGamingMore than you can bear
@@AgraxGamingclearly not a Joe Rogan fan
@@jedinxf7 if he’s told you he’s a bear he’s prolly lying. Most bears have a wide array of vocalisations but they can’t do speech… I think.
I legitimately thought he'll take a history from an animal then trace the family history back to the Dinosaurs
gotta learn to take a proper ID history - going back to dinosaurs isn't good enough - go back to primodial soup ;-) one cell knows another (micro joke........ehhhh its funny to me)
As an acarologist I can asure you that we *do* in fact have hiking microscopes.
I just looked this up...and now I need it.
I'm a pathologist and though I casually hike, I never knew there was such a thing as a hiking microscope. Now I must have one. Can you recommend one to me?
Do regular people just call the hiking microscope a "magnifying glass"? 🔎🔍
Swift fm31?!
Have you found a way to defeat ticks once and for all?
Evidently Dr. G hasn't forgotten 99% of what he learnt in med school yet.
I did a significant amount of research for this
@@DGlaucomflecken You mean "continuing education."
@@DGlaucomflecken wow😮
@@DGlaucomflecken and the process you killed any desire to hike.. EVER
@@bogdanflorin8927 You're so fun at parties I'm sure
The end had big "Congratulations, you are being rescued, please do not resist!" vibes
Just picturing him whipping out a hiking microscope mid hike is hilarious.
I'd love to see Pathology on a hike with Infectious Diseases, he'd have such fun comparing Tabitha to the hiking microscope!
@@ciara473 I was just gonna say, I wonder if the hiking microscope is Tabitha's more-outdoorsy little sister! 😆
I think you can order them from Texaco Mike
People keep forgetting the outside is full of stuff that is not human. And there's people with the clear mission to study anything BUT humans (and humans as well but they are just another mammal... We mostly do it on the side to make medicine feel better about not really being 'science').
You folks wouldn't believe the excitment of biologists when mobile phones became legit little zooming devices. Most of us will still carry a folding lens though...
@@ItsAsparageese Tabitha, this is Sally, Infectios Disease's hike microscope. Sally, this is Tabitha, an OMAX LED compound microscope.
He's about as much fun as dermatology at the beach. 😂
"What can kill you?"
"Everything!"
"And where does it live?"
"Everywhere!"
I'm getting ready to go hiking with my husband for our anniversary. This video is a life saver. I almost forgot to pack my hiking microscope! 😅
😱 Oh my. Imagine the horror, when you're trying to examine a tick and there's no microscope anywhere in your backpack..! Getting goosebumps just from the thought. Next you're gonna say you don't have your hiking tweezers
A set of tweezers would be a good thing to have with you tho, especially of ticks in your area carry diseases
Oooh, sexy time! lol
There is an infectious disease doctor that saved my father’s life and she absolutely LOVES when you do the ID skits. After I thanked her for what she did for my family we had a good laugh together about ID taking a history 😂😂😂
i'm taking my infectious diseases exam with what i learned from this video
Please report back on your results! Then we'll know if Dr. Glaucomflecken is a reliable study source.
I lost it at the kids’ part!
“What can kill you?”
“Everything!”
🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂
And where does it live?
EVERYWHERE 😂
That was my favourite part too
“Don’t drink the river water” is also the advice I got from my school backpacking troupe plus a whole lesson on water filtration and what kind of water was less likely to make you sick. Once my family hiked to a small trickle of a waterfall with algae growing on the rocks where the water flowed-natures warning sign. My brother said “let’s drink it!” and reached out to cup some water in his hands. I instinctively yelled “NOPE” and slapped his hand away. They looked at me like I was crazy while I explained to them that’s how you catch dysentery. It was extra difficult to get them to not drink the water because we are, of course, all from a very rural area and goddammit if my farmer-descended family isn’t stubborn.
Okay so serious question, are people actually just out there drinking river water? Like, people who aren't in some remote corner of Papua New Guinea pr something?
We need more Infectious Disease content!
Especially water borne ID.
Yes!
Most of my patients with arthritis share they are puzzled by it. I ask whether they ever had ticks on them from hikes or growing in a rural area. Then, they describe Lyme Disease like symptoms. Many follow-ups were made with their immunologists. We need more PSA's like these.
Are you saying that arthritis in adults can stem from tick “bites” in childhood?
@@sheilavillamil2193 Or possibly just that arthritis has become a lazy catch-all term in many instances where further testing/questioning was warranted.
Even someone with no medical training could tell you that arthritis is something with "stiff joints, pain when moving, limited range of movement, and swelling." But since it's culturally understood, even someone with no formal medical intervention can easily just assume all they've got is arthritis and it's just this shitty thing they have to deal with for the rest of their life.
That being said.....if you figure the amount of damage a tick bite can do to somebody's body in a few years without intervention, who knows what decades of misdiagnosis can do.
It's kind of like how we're discovering that long-term exposure to high lead levels makes people less cognitively intelligent while stunting their emotional maturity......so all the violent, angry, incoherent stereotypes/viewpoints/behaviors of many Boomers and Gen Xers starts to make a hell of a lot more medical sense lol
(and why kids raised near racing tracks started doing better in schools once they switched to unleaded gas)
Thank you for following up on their symptoms in such a thoughtful way. My family member has Lyme disease and has experienced souch joint paint as part of the disease process.
Nurse here. When we were t
In the Rocky’s last summer this was ME! We had deer go through our camp site. They were majestic but risky. My kids had their pants tucked SO deep in their socks that it made my husband say “really?” I talked all about rocky mountain spotted fever and Lyme. My dad is a biologist. He kept calling after we got home to see if we had any flu like symptoms! This is pure perfection doc! Thank you!!!!!
Fun fact: a friend and I only brought one standard bottle of water each on a high school hiking trip alongside a river and ran out well before reaching wherever it was we were going. We had no idea how much longer we'd be out there, only that we weren't even halfway through (since, y'know, not turned back yet) and we were getting super thirsty. Everyone else only had their own limited supplies of water, too, and we weren't exactly popular at school. We also knew it'd be unsafe to drink from the river, even if we had a reasonable way to get down to it, drink, and back up to the trail without getting yelled at or left behind.
There only seemed to be one option other than spending the rest of the trip feeling like we were gonna die of thirst: hope what I'd been told about spring water being safe was true and that I could locate one along the path, and proceed to look for the absolutely coldest little stream or oddly-placed and trickling-along puddle I could find.
Did find something that matched the description, though I'm not sure if it really was a spring or not. Couldn't detect any issues with it with our very limited human senses (actually "tasted" better than the water at school). Others knew what we did, so it wouldn't have been a mystery if something when horribly wrong. Luckily, neither of us got sick or have shown any issue in the years since. My parents were furious when they found out that the school hadn't brought a bunch of extra water along for us idiot students, though.
Years later, I now have one of those fancy filter straws. I just... have yet to need it, so it remains sealed in its package.
The “why are you crying?” and “Oh look a bunny! Tularemia.” 😂 Dying! I am not a doctor nor do I personally know any, but I still appreciate this content. So good! You’ve got such a great sense of humor. 😄
...I have been known to say things like, "oh, armadillos, they carry leprosy!" So that ones accurate
Currently in the middle of bugs and drugs and I have gained a new respect for the ID physicians.
Only for them to mostly diagnose & treat Staph Aureus 🤷🏻♀️
@@fakesidekick It is extremely disease causing. Seriously I've had to memorize about 12 different types of illness caused by staph aureus alone it is a beast
As a doctor , it amazes me how much he had to study microbiology and infections to make this video and Dr.Glaucomfleckens creativity is through the roof..man you're good!!
Lmao as I parasitologist this is my new favorite video of yours haha. I ALWAYS do a tick check everytime I'm in the wilderness. One of my favorites is telling others about Echinococcus!
Please DON'T tell us about it. Signed, Queasy Queen
I feel like "I'm Infectious Disease, and I'm going to check you for ticks" is this guy's go-to line while on a date.
Infectious disease should hang out with immunologist more. Imagine them arguing on this hike
Oh man! I would love that!
A conversation about Lyme disease induced Rhuematoid Athritis would be riveting, if not an actual PSA.
Where is immunology?
I don’t think I’ve met them
Oh lord, that will be epic!
ID and Heme/Onc would be a fight to rival Cards and Nephro
I can hear rural medicine wheezing so hard from a distance
Rural medicine would actually go
This dude is absolutely right for the love of god stop drinking stagnant river water we are running out of imodium
I just got back from a Cub Scout camp out and found this hilarious. The tick part of saving the tick is actually part of the official protocol. The training I did with my den was first aid and when it came to what does every parent do during and after the camp all the parents replied check for ticks!
My husband saved a tick in a bottle one time and put it in the medicine cabinet without telling me. Not what you want to see at 3 AM!
My dad is a nurse… we lived in the woods. This is already very familiar. Every time we went on a walk we ended it by checking for ticks. We were told to avoid certain plants, and got to hear horror stories about infected cuts and people who ate the wrong thing. We also got to hear more stories of other kids who got hurt and were examples of why we couldn’t do things like jump on trampolines or eat raw cookie dough among other things. Keep the kids healthy! 😂
My dad isn't an infectious disease doc, but he spent a brief time working as an ER tech and this just brought back childhood memories.....and I need therapy now.
You're ok. I know I am 😉. Raised by infection disease hematologist...
😂😂
Maybe he'll do a 'post hike sesh' with metal health!
As someone who lived in the middle of Mosquito Country, Tick Country, and had regular advisories that the local lake was overrun with brain eating bacteria... I felt this.
As someone who's a former public health educator who's also an avid birder, I'm feeling all of this, especially the tick info. I carry tick tweezers in my bag at all times, even when I'm simply strolling the urban wilderness, because I *know* they're out there and they've found me one too many times.
You know you watch a lotta Dr. G’s videos when you start receiving ads about anesthesia
I only get ads about VRBO, bras and shapermint. What am I doing wrong??
I keep getting this really annoying ad about a doctor who used to be overworked and underpaid now earning $$$$$. I guess the YT algorithm be assuming things about me
Do you also get those ads for how to improve your charting efficiency?
@@c.j.4014 Ha ha! I get an ad for a better answering service. I like the music and it's easy to ignore
"Molly, go get me my HIKING MICROSCOPE" 🤣 I died
“I’m infectious disease and I’m gonna check you for ticks.” I didn’t realize infectious disease caught One Liner Disease 😂
As a medical student, whose favourite subject is infectious disease, this video checked all the boxes for me. So satisfying
Interesting fact;
“What can kill you?”
“Everything!”
“And where does it live?”
“Everywhere”
is also the third verse of the Australian National Anthem.
Someone who lives in the land of the ticks Nova Scotia Canada and I hike all the time with the dog. I have a hiking sack it has a first aid kit and a tick kit in it. So tick checks are always for me and the puppy dog. There's a really great spray that's made here in Nova Scotia it's called Atlantic it works really well. Pretty sure they deliver pretty much everywhere in the world. I think.
Thanks fam can I use it on doggo as well? He has a seresto collar, but he just tested positive for anaplasma. I probs have it too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
when my cat came in I used to say "how many animals in this fur? it should be one! only you!" when we did tick control. She thought we were cuddling. She wasn't wrong.
@@cyanofelis yes it is pet safe.
@@cyanofelis
I looked it up, AtlanTICK is a mix of herbal oils, won't hurt anyone, won't help anyone.
New Yorkers who live anywhere near woods are trained from very young to check for ticks.
Our state DEC and Cornell have extremely detailed pages of what ticks are found in our state (too many of them), What diseases they cause, how to identify them at all stages and before and after engorgement, how to avoid them on you, you kids, your pets and in your yard.
New York prefers we don’t get Lyme Disease. That is one disease you want to catch early.
100% this. My cousin went nearly three years without a proper Lyme Disease diagnosis ("oh you're too young to be seriously ill! It's just your anxiety"🤮) so the advancement of it absolutely fucked her body up.
Only thing is, I usually check for ticks at the end of the day or when we go back in the house because those things are everywhere. So far this year I have found 3 ticks, all walking on clothing. Also my tick prevention doubles as sun protection some days (fully covered in light colored clothing).
So true!
I would love going hiking with infectious disease! By the end my questions would have driven him crazy or made him love me either way fun all around.
As a past academic in parasitology, I would actually quite enjoy that walk just to listen to that fountain of knowledge, no sarcasm. He reminds me a bit of the vet professor I met during my graduate years, he was great, he literally wrote the books on wildlife parasitology in Australia.
_Furiously scribbles every disease that hasn't been a TPWKY episode yet so I can think of things to say when they ask for suggestions for each season_
YAY FOR MORE ID CONTENT! I identify so heavily with this character lol thanks for the amazing videos
Oh good, thanks for saving me the trouble. Even though there aren't many left.
@@marley7145 Lol right? I'm grateful the Erins have such particular fondness for arthropod-vectored stuff since there's a good deep pool of options there XD
@@ItsAsparageese agreed. Though to be honest if they decided to talk about the mechanism of action of automobile accident injuries, I'd listen to that, too.
(...and now I'm considering possible quarantinis.)
@@marley7145 Oh definitely, I love traumatic injuries myself. Er, learning about them, that is (although acquiring them can be reasonably fun sometimes too lol)! Yeah they could do one heck of a fascinating two-parter on just transportation-related accidents, that would be an insanely cool topic! I love ID topics but I love it when they step outside that niche too. I think lightning & the bends have been some of their niftiest eps so far.
Hits close to home. I lived in an area with endemic tickborne encephalitis (a very nice viral disease with 5% mortality with best treatment and frequent life-long sequalae). Our forest trips were kinda like that: tuck clothes, check each other after returning, and if you find a tick then preserve it for testing for the virus.
I notice you use the past tense about that place
Oh wow!! I didn't know tickborne encephalitis is now considered a 'thing'! I remember trying to explain to doctors 4 years ago that my brain felt like it was 'burning' among other symptoms (and got blank stares or was asked about my mental state). Finally was diagnosed with neuro Lyme but I wonder if I had brain inflammation too.
Anyway, lived to tell the tale, but grateful I ran across your post!
@@talesfromtheroad9530 any long side effects?
How / where would you test it for the virus? I only know that you can send the tick for analysis for Borrelia.
@@sorin.n That was in Russia back in early 2000-s. Fortunately, tickborne encephalitis is not present in the US, so we don't need to fear it.
But if you want, you can do PCR tests on ticks. CDC local labs do that. I believe they mostly test for Babesiosis.
They say he gets an HPI from the tick so deep, its nymph stage feels like an entire life cycle.
I actually have a little tick remover tool that has a small magnifying lens as part of it's structure, for identifying the tick and also checking the bite site for remaining mouthparts. It's a hiking must-have.
I said the "I am going to check you for ticks, take of your clothes" to my wife in the evening and she thought it was an innuendo, I then proceeded to get my flashlight and tick tweezers and check her thoroughly. To her surprise and taken aback look. So far: one out of five chance that she has a tick when we are out in the wilderness. So I'm always precautious .
Man, ID is so interesting but I also feel like I’d be so paranoid all the time.
Yes
Absolutely, yes.
Meh. As in all medicine, and life in general, you learn to minimise risk where you are able to and not do stupid shit, but thats about it.
It's not paranoia if they're out to get you.
And ticks definitely are out to get you.
I'd be the one crying yet intensely listening to such facinating information.
I love a good tick borne illness lecture, and in nature no less! 👏👏👏
For real though, thanks for the lecture not enough people get but everyone needs!
Chronic Lymie and babesiosis patient here who grew up with obsessive tick checks because my sisters and I were infected in-utero due to doctors not asking the "have you traveled outside the area" question in the late 70s when our Mom got the OG recognized strain on a trip to visit family on the East coast. Mom was determined we wouldn't pick up any other illnesses, and to our knowledge (and careful physician observation) we didn't. We were also the "brave girls" in our friend groups who could deal with bugs, stickerburrs, and garden snakes. 🤪
Kudos to you for your being tuff.
Man this reminds me of when i was in the army where the other dudes in my unit mocked me for being fat and not being issued a weapon (my eyes are supper bad) and played up how masculine they were
Riiiight until a cockroach showed up at which point it was all yelling and "for the love of god you come kill it please"
Being able to deal with bugs is the best.
@@DimT670 "Being able to deal with bugs is the best superpower!" There. :)
Only missing Lone Star ticks that make you allergic to red meat.
"Everything!"
"Everywhere!"
"Perfect!"
haha you lost me there, brilliancy
As soon as the "what diseases do ticks cause" was asked, the vet nurse in me was like "oh SO many, let's see, there's this... and this..." 😂🤣
I’m not sure if “my hiking microscope” or “I don’t know you” made me laugh harder!
I had found a tick on my dog after a walk. I was so proud of myself removing the right way. The little straw was a lot longer then I thought.
there are no words to acknowledge how original, entertaining and eduational this content is!
As a PA-C in urgent care in the Great state of Pennsylvania, I completely understand ID's concern about ticks. Well played.
Awesome!
I camped out in the woods with friends of mine once a year, and trust me we are always checking each other for ticks.
Lucky for me and the rest of them, there’s been no ticks in any untoward places
And don't get him started on the mosquitoes...
Like tiny flying dirty needles...
I so love this guy. Every time with Dr. G is truly a LMFAO moment. Keep it real doc!
Oh yes....each character must now go hiking.
Omg. It really is a fabulous idea for a series, at least for most specialties if not all
Emergency doctor will go mountain biking and getting his femur repaired by ortho later.
The ophthalmologist will go glamping with Jonathan.
The dermatologist will accidentaly touch poison ivy.
Nephrology will help everybody out with water and electrolyte tablets.
OB/GYN will have to postpone the hike because having your period when you're out in the woods is annoying (speaking from experience).
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As a kid who grew up in the sticks and got tick/leech bites on the regular, these really make me feel like I dodged a bullet 😂
It depends on if the ticks carry diseases where you live. Its all risk assessment.
If you look at the comments there are people in areas with ticks who regularly carried diseases going "this is literally how we do it" and people in places where that's not the case going "ha ha fictionalised and paranoia" and neither is wrong for their circumstances
@@DimT670 Ooo interesting point
@@DimT670 The problem with that is that Lyme disease is actually more wide spread than the average person realizes. Maps of endemic areas for Lyme show that urban/near urban areas are the highest risk, when most people associate ticks/Lyme with wilderness.
The increased mobility of pets/people has produced dramatic increases in the incidence of Lyme disease.
"I'm infectious disease and I'm gonna check you for ticks"
This reminds me of a House episode where a girl is allergic to everything even inside a hospital because she has a tick on her genitals, only for house to discover it during physical exam on the last part of the episode.
I'm such a fan of Gynecological exams in an elevator while going into septic shock 🤣
Fun fact: Apparently the actress playing the girl with the tick had a crush on Hugh Laurie. So she left him a note when he was supposed to be looking between her legs.
As a veterinary pathologist who did her PhD on theileriosis but who *also* enjoys a good hike... this speaks to me on just so many levels.
Ever since I got what you called Colorado tick fever and what Mom called Rocky Mountain spotted tick fever when I was two, she implemented the strip search and destroy protocol every single night. I think I may have found the source of my PTSD.
Gee thanks Dr G 😳
Tweezers are great; they're included on most Swiss Army Knives; however, the Tick Key is where it is at for removal of woodland parasitic arachnids.
This is wild I go to school at Dart and thought I saw you walking through town the other day and did a huge double take, but was like…trick of the eye… BUT just saw you gave a talk here and now the NH woods!! happy to see the ticks didn’t get to you and I’m not going crazy
Omg I used to work in a lab where we identified ticks if they were infectious or not omfg the memoriessss
Maya, what kind of tests were you doing? What diseases were you looking for?
AMAZING! I laughed so hard from this one, it perfectly describes how a med student feels after finishing microbiology.
There is 1 disease you can get on hikes that he didn't mention- PTSD. Specifically PTSD from learning all those diseases. But it's alright, you're only susceptible if you work in either human or veterinary health care. Kind regards from the veterinarian who just diagnosed 4 dogs in 1 days with Lyme disease.
😬
Did any of them have Lyme Nephritis?
@@c.renmark1880 Luckily no.
I thought you were going to say PTSD from finding a dead body😂 it's always the old lady walking her dog or a bunch of kids going fishing that find the dumped corpses in the woods😂
An honest question of curiosity-how do you vets diagnose Lyme disease in dogs? What tests do you run?
I ask because, anecdotally, it seems faster and easier to diagnose Lyme Disease in dogs than in humans, at according to my research? (Well, once you’re past the initial barrier of: “dogs don’t have words and so they can’t describe their symptoms”.)
Every one of these videos is a literal masterpiece.
Man, I wish you were my ophthalmologist! Your patients don't know how lucky they are.
I’d be honored to have Infectious Disease check me for ticks because I know he’s be thorough. And possibly condescending.
You know he's probably learning more medicine doing these videos than being an ophthalmologist x)
LOL! This is why I don't hike any longer. That, and I've become even more clumsy with age.
This channel fills the hole that Scrubs left in my heart ❤
I'm a vet tech, and I love this!!!
This feels like an alternate universe where House MD went on hikes
Infectious Disease would had searched the pubic hair:)
😂😂😂 just got back from a hike with my family 😂😂😂 I was like, no you can’t drink that water are you crazy?!! 😂 now check for ticks 🤓
I laugh snorted in a full bar at "go get me my hiking microscope".
I just can’t say it enough.. everyone of his videos is perfect! He’s a genius! He’s actually a genius.. he’s so amazingly smart (and so funny 😂 😂) in every field! He can’t just be an eye Dr. He’s a superhero 😅
Get on my level infectious disease, I carry tick tools with me everywhere because I have a gift for finding them on my friends animals when petting them and smothering them with love. Tweezers are just not as prepared as you can be. LOL But seriously, I do carry the tick tool, and I have actually used it to remove a tick on a person this year. She came into the dance class after mine asking if anyone had tweezers just for that reason and I whipped out the tick removing tool instead.
My ferret, cats, and dog would get ticks all the time. I'd just pluck them out with my fingernails (never squeezing, just using my nails as tweezers).
Infectious disease doctors are so rare... I'd listen to one in if I found one in my hiking trip.
-especially if there's some people around for security-
Dr. G.. you just motivated me to study anatomy for some reason 😊
"Of course I have tweezers I'm on a hike" reminded me I'm subscribed thank you!
Rewatched until I registered the hiking microscope joke. 🔬. You're golden!
This kind of feels like me at school. I’m known as that guy who knows every disease. Except, I don’t have a doctorate degree, and I don’t know every disease. No one does, you can’t.
Give the little kids who delivered their lines perfectly an award! They were brilliant. Talk about scene sealers. And they it without having any screen time!
Being a resident of Tulare county, it's always fun to hear Tularemia and its connection with my beloved county.
That’s the best! I love seeing one of the doctors in the wild!
10/10 recommend tick removers. I carry them around for my dog and occasionally use them on myself
Yeah I took a semester of Microbiology and decided that I needed to switch majors from pre-med to computer science
Ticks are the best, I cannot imagine any other creature that eats so many times it's own bodyweight-amazing
As someone with immune issues this is the same type of fear I've had to train myself out of, i feel well represented and like if ID and I ever met we would have to have a talk sometime lol
Surgery or infectious disease hard to choose but love them both 😂😂
“why are you crying?”😂😂😂
Me, living in a swamp, "And we didn't even START on the mosquito lecture."
I'm always pleasantly surprised by how often doctors offer to check me for ticks while I'm out hiking