Dr. Lara Briseno Kenney, M.D.

No. Medications are often used to treat swelling that might be a result of poor veins and enlarged veins but they do nothing to fix the actual problem. The safest and least harmful option is compression socks or tights. They do not fix the veins but they control the issue without side effects of medications or risks of procedure and surgeries.

Anemia is a very broad, simple, term that describes a finding. The finding is low red blood cell counts. This finding, description "Anemia" does not tell you what is causing the red blood cell counts to be low. There are dozens of causes and the answer depends on what is the actual diagnosis that is causing the anemia. Some serious diagnosis that can cause anemia are stomach cancer, esophageal cancer, colon cancer, kidney failure, myelodysplastic syndrome or other bone marrow cancers. Some very common causes are things so simple as low iron from heavy menstrual periods, low B12 vitamins, low copper or other nutrients. So, you need to work with your doctor to understand the cause of the anemia.

Often times inflammation will cause the thyroid activity to be high and then the inflammation will lead to this actually "burning out" and your thyroid will return to a normal level of activity or a low level that requires thyroid hormone supplements to help bring it back to a normal level. If a patient has symptoms from the high thyroid it needs to be treated and monitored. If the patient has no symptoms, it needs to be monitored.

Can you? Yes. Should you? No. There is literally no part of our normal, healthy, body function that benefits from sugary and starchy foods, other then our mental enjoyment of them. This is true for people with NO diabetes at all, pre diabetes and diabetes. Sugar is not part of a healthy diet.