PEOPLE are STUBBORN & IGNORANT!! WHY?!

Recently, I've been feeling frustrated about the stubborness and ignorance of people!

1st: A family friend had severe nose bleed, and I was NICE enough to provide my help and share the knowledge that I had... but too BAD, they only listened to their "doctor son", HA who might made a bad suggestion to his mom, which might cause the life of his own mom!

BUT, it's OK... It's my NATURE that I like to help people, I can not sit back and not do anything when I know someone needs help!

2nd: My own MOM... yeh another stubborn person! These past month, she already had 3 or 4 episodes of "allergy rxn". She said that she was hot and itchy.. and looked PURPLE.. I felt her face and upper body, she was real HOT!

When it first happened, she blamed on the smoked turkey leg that we got from farmers market... I was like huh? Was she allergic to the spices?? I recalled that she ate roasted penuts, the type of penuts can cause FATAL allergy!! I figured that it MIGHT be the penuts!

Then she took 2, yes TWO antihistamine (some med she got from Taiwan), then she felt asleep... she felt fine after taking a nap..

I also suspected the NIACIN vitamine that she took to lower her cholersterol.
The typical side effects of Niacin are: Itchy, flushing, redness, hot, tingling... the side effects start after about 5-10 min, and last about 1 hr. Yes, it causes this unpleasant sensation, but it might go away after taking Niacin for a period of time. Also, Niacin is the 1st line of tx for Hyperlipidemia. It not only lower choleterol, more importantly, it raises HDL!!
It helps to reduce the Cardiovascular diseases, while famous drugs like Statin, not necessary prevent or reduce the CV disease!

Then, she felt the smiliar sensation, she took the same weird med again!!
Again, she felt FINE afterall...

Yesterday was the most recent time she felt the "allergy rxn". I asked her what she ate, did she take Niacin, when she took Niacin, etc.. She got very frustrated, and was NOT willing to cooperate, and was like blaming on her PMS symptoms and that she hadnt been taking the "soy bean extracts", so her FLUSHING symptom came back!! I was like huh?? I thought she hadnt been having that sensation for a long while, and why it happened so often recently, and by the way, it's been many years since her last MC.

Well, it triggered my interest, so I started looking for info, and more and more I felt the SUSPECT was NIACIN!! Thats why I quote the allergy rxn, cuz they share similar s/s, thats why we both thought it's ALLERGY!!

Then I thought, hmmm if the side effects of Niacin would go away in about an hr after the s/s started, after she took a couple of hrs of nap from taking Antihistamine, she'd also feel FINE!!
So that will double confirm her belief that IT MUST BE ALLERGY, HER WEIRD ANTIHISTAMINE WORKED, AND SHE MUST TAKE 2 each time she feels the sensation!!!

OMG, thats real funny, yet PRETTY SCARY!!

Even my Mom has the false belief... what about the general publics who have NO medical background?!


YES... I still believe that EDUCATE people/pts are VERY VERY VERY IMPORTANT!!