Sunday House Call, #633,  October 22, 2017 Bee venom is good for my muscles? If you say so, I’ll take ten! (Cue anaphylaxis and hospital admission)

Topics today include:

Actor Gerard Butler learns of a treatment for muscle aches on some quack’s say so and get injected with bee sting venom. Has severe allergic reaction, goes to hospital and is treated. He then decides that the dose was likely too much the firsat time so he gets injected again and …..wait for it….. promptly develops severe allergic reaction again.

And, if it is good for newborns is must be good for adults right? Breast milk supplement in the form of a prebiotic pill coming soon to a store near you. The world just became more stupid.

Your calls about:

• Infantile eczema treaments
• Access to x-ray repoorts
• Shoulder pain work-up
• Access to prescription medication after doctor retires with no one to replace them.