Health Matters - #HazeHealth: A psychiatrist’s advice on coping with anxious and uncertain feelings or ‘Haze Anxiety’

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It’s more than your throat, eyes or heart health. Coping with the anxiety of worsening haze conditions brings anxious feelings for many. This includes a fear of health implications, uncertainty with unplanned cancellations and changes (eg: to School’s & Exams) and finally just the physical nature of the discomfort like physical side-effects and the seclusion this period brings. Daniel Martin spoke to Dr Jared Ng, Psychiatrist & Medical Director, Connections MindHealth.

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Health Matters - How goes the War on Diabetes? Diabetes Singapore speaks on their on-the-ground work

Guest: Priscilla Gan, Executive Director, Diabetes SG.

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Health Matters - You’ve been prescribed an inhaler for the first time, during Haze. Are you now an Asthmatic?

You’ve never needed an inhaler. You don’t have asthma or normally experience breathing difficulties. But during this hazy period, after seeing a doctor for breathing difficulties and throat irritation, you’re prescribed one – probably the blue inhaler. Why? Does this mean you’re asthmatic? Daniel Martin spoke to Dr Alvin Ng, Respiratory Physician and Intensivist at O2 Lung Centre, to find out.

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