Hillary Clinton’s campaign released additional medical information on the Democratic nominee’s health Wednesday, a day before she is set to resume campaigning after being diagnosed with pneumonia.
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Hillary Clinton’s doctor says the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate is “recovering well” from pneumonia and remains “fit to serve as president of the United States”.
According to the campaign, Clinton was diagnosed wth a mild form of non-contageious bacterial pneumonia and is under treatment with the antibiotic Levaquin. Bardack said she had examined Clinton on September 2, a week before the pneumonia diagnosis, after Clinton experienced a low-grade fever, congestion, and fatigue.
Dr Bardack released Mrs Clinton’s laboratory results that showed “normal” readings for cholesterol, triglycerides and other key readings.
Bardack also revealed that back in January as Clinton was campaigning ahead of the Iowa caucus, she developed a sinus and ear infection and had a tube placed in her left ear.
Clinton’s medical history included deep vein thrombosis in 1998 and 2009, an elbow fracture in 2009, and a blood clot discovered in followups to her 2012 concussion, Bardack said past year.
Wider points out that Clinton was advised to rest by her physician after running a low-grade fever and showing signs of an upper respiratory infection, but was clearly unable to do so.
According to her doctor, Clinton has received two vaccinations against pneumonia – Prevnar and Pneumovax – although it is not clear when she received those vaccinations.
But little information was available about what was said on the show, which will be broadcast Thursday, other than that Trump, 70, said he was taking regular doses of a statin, a drug that lowers cholesterol, and gave his weight as 236 pounds.
Ever the showman, Trump’s appearance on “The Dr. Oz Show” was billed by the campaign as a discussion about his general well-being and his family’s medical history. Clinton’s reinforces the idea that she thinks all of this is a manufactured controversy about her lack of honesty.
The Republican nominee, meanwhile, handed over a one-page summary of a recent physical exam to the celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz while taping an episode of Oz’s talk show.
Bardack’s letter also cast some new light on the persistent cough that Clinton complained of before she was found to have pneumonia.
Testing that shows no evidence of plaque building up in her arteries “is all very reassuring”, he said. Clinton suffers from seasonal allergies that developed into pneumonia, according to her doctor. Her blood pressure is on the “low side of normal”, he said, so she would be prone to fainting and sensitive to dehydration.
It’s a line Trump lifted this week, after Clinton said at a fundraiser that half of Trump’s supporters fit into a “basket of deplorables”, including racists and xenophobes.
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The information from a report by Trump’s doctor wasn’t released to the public. In response to the controversy, Clinton’s team announced it would publically release her medical records. “I think on the one hand, it is part of the wacky strategy, just say all these insane things and maybe you can get some people to believe you”. An electrocardiogram of Kaine’s heart was normal with the exception of “left arterial enlargement”. He later said he had written the letter in five minutes as a limousine sent by the candidate idled outside.
