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Dr. Eleanor Galvin

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122 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Pat Kenny Show
Ask The Expert: GP Eleanor Galvin

So it should be under a team, an endocrinologist, as well as a gynae, as well as a GP, as well as regular follow-up, not just something that is kind of pushed under the carpet.

The Pat Kenny Show
Ask The Expert: GP Eleanor Galvin

One in eight women have it in some form or another, which is a lot.

The Pat Kenny Show
Ask The Expert: GP Eleanor Galvin

So it's better to have a better understanding of something that is so complicated that can make people's, women's lives harder.

The Pat Kenny Show
Ask The Expert: GP Eleanor Galvin

Yeah, and it was kind of like test them once and you're done, whereas now you kind of test

The Pat Kenny Show
Ask The Expert: GP Eleanor Galvin

maybe girls come in late teens and their periods aren't regular and you say maybe they have a bit of PCOS and maybe they don't and then we check them again at 25 because it mightn't be that regular.

The Pat Kenny Show
Ask The Expert: GP Eleanor Galvin

But it's also the other pieces, the spots, are they always just trying to get ahead of their spots?

The Pat Kenny Show
Ask The Expert: GP Eleanor Galvin

Are they tired?

The Pat Kenny Show
Ask The Expert: GP Eleanor Galvin

Are they off form?

The Pat Kenny Show
Ask The Expert: GP Eleanor Galvin

There's also now different subtypes recognised of it.

The Pat Kenny Show
Ask The Expert: GP Eleanor Galvin

So it's not just polycystic ovaries.

The Pat Kenny Show
Ask The Expert: GP Eleanor Galvin

Why is it that way?

The Pat Kenny Show
Ask The Expert: GP Eleanor Galvin

Which is the hormone path that's gone wrong in you and your whole body disease?

The Pat Kenny Show
Ask The Expert: GP Eleanor Galvin

It's really, the whole hay fever place is really, really interesting because it's a huge increase in the amount of hay fever we've been having over the last many years.

The Pat Kenny Show
Ask The Expert: GP Eleanor Galvin

And also the fact that you can try and get ahead of it.

The Pat Kenny Show
Ask The Expert: GP Eleanor Galvin

And I suppose it's to know that hay fever season is coming soon.

The Pat Kenny Show
Ask The Expert: GP Eleanor Galvin

get your daily antihistamines in, use your saline nasal washes and physical barriers for hay fever are so important.

The Pat Kenny Show
Ask The Expert: GP Eleanor Galvin

But they think it's partly because of climate change that we're having so much hay fever that we have longer, hotter summers, more pollen.

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The Pat Kenny Show
Ask The Expert: GP Eleanor Galvin

They think there's an increase in carbon dioxide in the air from the whole industrialised nation and that, and that's making plants make more pollen.

The Pat Kenny Show
Ask The Expert: GP Eleanor Galvin

And also we have cleaner children where we wash our children, don't let them run around in

The Pat Kenny Show
Ask The Expert: GP Eleanor Galvin

in muck and grass when they're small.