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Healthy Options | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
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May 6, 2026
Healthy Options 5/6/26: Update: Lyme disease, tick-borne illnesses & how to avoid tick bites
Host/Producer: Rhonda Feiman Co-Producer: Petra Hall Technical Assistance: Joel Mann Healthy Options: For Well-being & Being Well This month: – The spreasd of new tick species and diseases in Maine & the Northeast – Prevention is the best medicine! Keep ticks from attaching. Create a barrier with clothes. Using permethrin on clothes & gear (embedded commercially, or sprayed on carefully). – Use repellants on skin (deet, picaridin, lemon-eucalyptus) – Essential oils not effective for very long & may cause skin irritation – Symptoms of tick infections for Alpha-gal syndrome, Lyme, Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Borrelia miyamotoi, Powassan virus & which ticks carry them – When doxycycline is used & most effective, & other treatments for tick illness – How soon can disease be transmitted after a bite (Powassan virus within 15 minutes!) Guest(s): Dr. Beatrice Szantyr on Lyme disease & other tick-borne illness, for an update on tick diseases & new tick species which are spreading here in Maine (& beyond), how we need to be tick-conscious to try to prevent tick bites, & the challenges in identifying and treating tick-borne illness. FMI: EPA info on effective repellents www.epa.gov/insect-repellents? EPA tool to find the repellent that is right for you www.epa.gov/insect-repellents/find-repellent-right-you EPA info on repellent-treated clothing www.epa.gov/insect-repellents/repellent-treated-clothing? University of Maine Tick Lab?- Protect Yourself from ticks & tick-borne diseases?(Identify a tick for free; $20 to ID diseases the tick may contain) extension.umaine.edu/ticks/ Tick testing Amherst MA. (tests for more diseases): www.tickreport.com Maine Tracking Network- Tickborne Diseases?Improving public health with better information: data.mainepublichealth.gov/tracking/home Columbia University Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center www.columbia-lyme.org/ Powered by patients. Home of Lyme Times and My Lyme Data: www.lymedisease.org/ TickEncounter The University of Rhode Island Tick-borne Disease prevention Education web.uri.edu/tickencounter/ This article is brief enough for a patient to bring to a doctor’s visit for them to consider: The Management of Ixodes scapularis Bites in the Upper Midwest wmjonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/110/2/78.pdf ESPECIALLY FOR MEDICAL PROVIDERS: VectorWise CME: “Empowering clinicians through vector-borne disease education – free, virtual, accredited CME” vectorwisecme.org/ LymeCME: “Free, Evidence-based, AAFP-Accredited Courses that Physicians Can Trust” lymecme.info/ About the host: Rhonda Feiman is a nationally-certified, licensed acupuncturist practicing in Belfast, Maine since 1993. She primarily practices Toyohari Japanese acupuncture, using gentle and powerful non-insertion needle techniques, and also utilizes Chinese acupuncture and herbology. In addition, Rhonda is a practitioner of Qi Gong and an instructor of Tai Chi Chuan in the Yang Family tradition.
April 1, 2026
Healthy Options 4/1/26: Brain health & how we can stay healthy & resilient – at any age.
Host/Producer: Rhonda Feiman Co-Producer: Petra Hall Technical Assistance: Joel Mann Healthy Options: For Well-being & Being Well This month: – What exactly is healthy aging? – How stress affects memory & brain function, & how we can reduce the negative effects of cortisol. – Mild cognitive impairment, dementia, & Alzheimer’s disease explained. – How sleep affects the brain. – How does exercise (such as Tai Chi, walking, dance & yoga) affect our cognition & help our brain & body as we age? – Awareness of the effects of multiple medications on the brain. – What health care workers are learning about healthy aging. – Why “Forest bathing” and being in nature is so helpful to brain health & our sense of well-being. Guest(s): Geriatric psychiatrist, Dr. Susan Wehry, has been a passionate advocate for older people throughout her 40 plus year career, during which she has held a variety of clinical, administrative, academic and consulting roles across the country. Dr. Wehry had served as Chief of Geriatrics at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, and for several years had been the Commissioner of Vermont’s Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living. As a clinician, educator, policy maker, advocate and advisor, Dr. Wehry has shared her work with students, professionals, older adults and family caregivers, throughout the United States and abroad. FMI: Opinion: The Nature Pill 12/22/23 By Elizabeth Luo www.nuscimagazine.com/opinion-the-nature-pill Healing ourselves through nature: “The Nature Fix- Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative” (Florence Williams, author) archives.weru.org/healthy-options/2017/11/healthy-options-11117/ Previous Healthy Options interview with Dr. Susan Wehry archives.weru.org/healthy-options/2023/12/healthy-options-12-6-23-brain-health-and-aging-well/ About the host: Rhonda Feiman is a nationally-certified, licensed acupuncturist practicing in Belfast, Maine since 1993. She primarily practices Toyohari Japanese acupuncture, using gentle and powerful non-insertion needle techniques, and also utilizes Chinese acupuncture and herbology. In addition, Rhonda is a practitioner of Qi Gong and an instructor of Tai Chi Chuan in the Yang Family tradition.
March 4, 2026
Healthy Options 3/4/26: Hospice Volunteers of Waldo County
Host/Producer: Rhonda Feiman Co-Producer: Petra Hall Technical Assistance: Joel Mann Healthy Options: For Well-being & Being Well This month: Hospice Volunteers of Waldo County is community-based, with neighbors helping neighbors. They work closely with volunteers, families, and healthcare partners in their mission to help ensure that no one in Waldo County is alone when facing serious illness, end-of-life decisions, or bereavement. Their services include educational resources on grief, death, and dying; support for caregivers working with those at the end of life; workshops on end-of-life issues and advance care planning, and also, grief support services to anyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one, whether or not that person has received hospice care. Guest(s): Flic Shooter, the Executive Director of Hospice Volunteers of Waldo County. FMI: Hospice Volunteers of Waldo County: hospicevolunteersofwaldocounty.org Hospice Volunteers of Waldo County Resources: hospicevolunteersofwaldocounty.org/resources The Conversation Project: theconversationproject.org About the host: Rhonda Feiman is a nationally-certified, licensed acupuncturist practicing in Belfast, Maine since 1993. She primarily practices Toyohari Japanese acupuncture, using gentle and powerful non-insertion needle techniques, and also utilizes Chinese acupuncture and herbology. In addition, Rhonda is a practitioner of Qi Gong and an instructor of Tai Chi Chuan in the Yang Family tradition.
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