⚠️ 3 de cada 10 hipertensos ya tienen ESTE daño en los ojos y no lo saben
Dr. Richard Suarez
623,641 views
There are signs in the eyes that don't hurt, don't bother you, and that almost no one checks. This 54-year-old woman arrived at the intensive care unit with a hypertensive emergency and no prior history to explain it. She didn't smoke, she didn't drink, she wasn't obese. When we pieced together her history, it turned out that her body had been warning her for at least three years, and it was doing so in the only place she looked at herself every day: her bathroom mirror.
In this video, you'll understand why the eyes are the only part of the body where you can see inside the plumbing that carries your blood, without cutting anything and without complicated tests. You'll learn to distinguish four signs that you can look for at home, in natural light and without filters: when the whites of the eyes turn yellow, when a painless blood spot appears, when bags appear under the eyelids, and what you see when you pull down your lower eyelid. You'll know which ones warrant a calm appointment and which ones can't wait.
As an intensive care physician, many of my patients arrive alone, without a medical history and with no one to explain what's been happening. In those first few minutes, the body is the only thing that speaks, and the eyes are among the first things I check, before any lab tests. What I'm showing you here is exactly that, applied to your mirror, your blood pressure, and your routine this week.
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⏱ CHAPTERS
00:00 The Case: A 54-Year-Old Woman Who Looked in the Mirror Every Day
02:16 What an ICU Doctor Checks in a Patient's Eyes
03:04 Why Your Eyes Are the Only Direct Window to Your Arteries
04:42 How Often Do Your Eyes Give Warning Signs Before the Rest of Your Body?
05:49 Sign 1: The Whites of Your Eyes Turn Yellow
07:40 Sign 2: The Painless Blood Spot
10:04 Sign 3: Fatty Bumps on Your Eyelids
12:37 Sign 4: What I Check in the Conjunctiva and the Pupils
13:18 The patient's timeline: from 51 to 54 years old
13:49 How to check yourself in front of the mirror step by step
14:40 How to take your blood pressure this week
15:16 The tests you should request this month
16:10 None of this is a sentence: how to interpret it correctly
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🩺 I'm Dr. Richard Suárez, a specialist in intensive care. On this channel, I show you, from the ICU, how your body really works, without bias, with evidence, and with the experience of someone who sees it every day.
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👉 If, upon reviewing your results, you discover that the problem isn't just cholesterol or sugar, but rather your relationship with food and the anxiety surrounding it, this workshop is for you:
https://richardsuarezu.com/academia/t...
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Dios le bendiga.
Que tristeza.
Lo felicito a usted por ese amor a la profesión y a sus pacientes.❤❤❤❤❤
⚠️ 3 de cada 10 hipertensos ya tienen ESTE daño en los ojos y no lo saben
Dr. Richard Suarez
623,641 views
There are signs in the eyes that don't hurt, don't bother you, and that almost no one checks. This 54-year-old woman arrived at the intensive care unit with a hypertensive emergency and no prior history to explain it. She didn't smoke, she didn't drink, she wasn't obese. When we pieced together her history, it turned out that her body had been warning her for at least three years, and it was doing so in the only place she looked at herself every day: her bathroom mirror.
In this video, you'll understand why the eyes are the only part of the body where you can see inside the plumbing that carries your blood, without cutting anything and without complicated tests. You'll learn to distinguish four signs that you can look for at home, in natural light and without filters: when the whites of the eyes turn yellow, when a painless blood spot appears, when bags appear under the eyelids, and what you see when you pull down your lower eyelid. You'll know which ones warrant a calm appointment and which ones can't wait.
As an intensive care physician, many of my patients arrive alone, without a medical history and with no one to explain what's been happening. In those first few minutes, the body is the only thing that speaks, and the eyes are among the first things I check, before any lab tests. What I'm showing you here is exactly that, applied to your mirror, your blood pressure, and your routine this week.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
⏱ CHAPTERS
00:00 The Case: A 54-Year-Old Woman Who Looked in the Mirror Every Day
02:16 What an ICU Doctor Checks in a Patient's Eyes
03:04 Why Your Eyes Are the Only Direct Window to Your Arteries
04:42 How Often Do Your Eyes Give Warning Signs Before the Rest of Your Body?
05:49 Sign 1: The Whites of Your Eyes Turn Yellow
07:40 Sign 2: The Painless Blood Spot
10:04 Sign 3: Fatty Bumps on Your Eyelids
12:37 Sign 4: What I Check in the Conjunctiva and the Pupils
13:18 The patient's timeline: from 51 to 54 years old
13:49 How to check yourself in front of the mirror step by step
14:40 How to take your blood pressure this week
15:16 The tests you should request this month
16:10 None of this is a sentence: how to interpret it correctly
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🩺 I'm Dr. Richard Suárez, a specialist in intensive care. On this channel, I show you, from the ICU, how your body really works, without bias, with evidence, and with the experience of someone who sees it every day.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
👉 If, upon reviewing your results, you discover that the problem isn't just cholesterol or sugar, but rather your relationship with food and the anxiety surrounding it, this workshop is for you:
https://richardsuarezu.com/academia/t...