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Yes. Amlodipine and losartan are commonly prescribed together, and major guidelines explicitly endorse this combination when one drug alone fails to control blood pressure.
Read the story ↗No, you cannot swallow your tongue. The tongue is anchored to the floor of the mouth by the lingual frenulum and a muscular root, and it has no free end that can fold back and pass the throat.
THE FULL EXPLANATIONYes, you can supercharge a 2-stroke, and forced induction is one of the most effective ways to raise its output. But the 2-stroke does not respond like a four-stroke.
THE FULL EXPLANATIONNo. You should not swim with active impetigo. The sores shed live Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus pyogenes bacteria into the water.
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Yes, you can survive a liver shot, and the vast majority of people who take one do.
THE FULL EXPLANATIONYes. Most women diagnosed with stage 3 cervical cancer survive it, and a substantial share are cured.
THE FULL EXPLANATIONYes, you can survive a cut femoral artery, but only if bleeding is controlled within minutes and the blood loss is replaced.
THE FULL EXPLANATIONYes, almond milk can replace coconut milk in most recipes, but the swap is not one-to-one. Almond milk is thinner, lower in fat, and less sweet, so it works best in smoothies, soups, and baked goods where you adjust ratios and add fat.
THE FULL EXPLANATIONYes, you can substitute ground cinnamon for cinnamon sticks, but not cup for cup or stick for stick.
THE FULL EXPLANATIONYou can substantially reduce the risk of passing herpes to a partner, but no strategy on the market drives it to zero.
THE FULL EXPLANATIONYes, you can still pass gas with appendicitis, and doing so does not rule out the condition.
THE FULL EXPLANATIONYes, you can still get pneumonia after vaccination. No pneumonia vaccine prevents every case. The vaccines cut the risk of the most dangerous bacterial types and their worst outcomes, but they do not create a force field.
THE FULL EXPLANATIONYes, you can still get gallstones after gallbladder removal, but the stones form in the bile ducts rather than the gallbladder.
THE FULL EXPLANATIONCan you starch polyester? No. Starch will not bond to polyester the way it bonds to cotton, so the treatment wipes off, flakes at folds, and stiffens unevenly.
THE FULL EXPLANATIONYes, you can soak potatoes in water overnight, and for most purposes it is safe and even useful. Whole or cut potatoes submerged in cold water for 8-12 hours stay firm, resist browning, and shed some surface starch.
THE FULL EXPLANATIONYes, you can sneeze after cataract surgery, and you almost certainly will at some point during the weeks when your eye is still healing.
THE FULL EXPLANATIONProbably not during the acute phase. Infectious mononucleosis enlarges the spleen and lymph nodes, and inhaled cannabis adds airway irritation, coughing, and blood-pressure shifts at the exact time your body is repairing lymphoid tissue…
THE FULL EXPLANATIONNo, you should not smoke nicotine—or vape it—while recovering from a concussion.
THE FULL EXPLANATIONYes. Sleepwalking with eyes open is not just possible but typical: roughly 80 percent of sleepwalking episodes involve open eyes, and some people also sleep with their eyes open in other parasomnias.
THE FULL EXPLANATIONNo, sleeping on MDMA (commonly called molly) is not safe in any reliable sense, and the drug usually makes normal sleep impossible for 6 to 12 hours.
THE FULL EXPLANATIONNo. You cannot compress 8 hours of sleep into 4 hours, because sleep performs time-locked physiologic work that cannot run at double speed.
THE FULL EXPLANATIONYes, a tooth infection is often visible on an X-ray, but not always and not immediately. Dental radiographs show infection indirectly, through changes in bone and tissue density, rather than by imaging bacteria themselves.
THE FULL EXPLANATIONYes. A CT scan can show most hernias, and it is one of the most reliable imaging tests for them.
THE FULL EXPLANATIONYou cannot see mental illness in a person’s eyes. There is no eye appearance, pupil shape, iris pattern, or gaze style that reliably identifies depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or any other psychiatric condition.
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