Flu, Cow's milk allergy, Robotic pharmacy

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

What goes into our flu vaccine always has an element of guesswork. Usually the experts get it right but sometimes nature has other ideas and a new strain emerges. Dr John McCauley, Director of the Worldwide Influenza Centre at the Francis Crick Institute in London tells Dr Mark Porter about Aussie flu and how different flu strains pose risks to different groups of people.

Cow's milk allergy is the most common food allergy among infants and it affects at least one in 50 babies, toddlers and pre-school children in the UK. It's an allergic reaction to the protein in cow's milk. There are two different types though and one type, called delayed cow's milk allergy, is often missed by health care professionals because it's easily confused with other common conditions. Lucy Wronka tells Inside Health her baby son George was ill for months with reflux, eczema and an upset stomach. It was only a chance meeting with a friend who recognised the symptoms that led to a diagnosis of delayed cow's milk allergy. Twenty four hours after diagnosis and treatment, Lucy says George was a different baby. Dr Adam Fox, paediatric allergist at the Evelina London Children's Hospital explains the difference between the two different types of cow's milk allergy and discusses new guidance for GPs and health visitors which are designed to improve diagnosis.

One of Europe's largest robotic pharmacies is housed in Glasgow and this super high-tech hub has replaced fourteen separate pharmacy stores. It handles almost a hundred thousand packs of medicines a week and Inside Health's Dr Margaret McCartney, herself a GP in the city, reports on how this automation has transformed pharmacy services in Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

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0:38.2	I hope you enjoy it.
0:39.7	Coming up today, a robotic pharmacy.
0:42.2	Margaret McCartney travels to a secret location
0:44.5	to meet the robots dispensing drugs in a home city, Glasgow.
0:48.3	The robot is whirring up and down.
0:50.7	It turns around 180 degrees.
0:52.8	The arm extends into the shelf to grab something,
0:55.3	and then seamlessly it just moves on to the next task. It does, and it's also rather sophisticated
0:59.9	in the sense that if there is a bit of dine time throughout the day, it will turn into a house tidy
1:05.0	type mode, and what it'll do is it'll start tidying up its shelves. Can I get one of these
1:09.8	at home?
1:14.0	And cows' milk allergy in children.
1:17.2	It affects around one in 50 under four in the UK.
1:19.0	His skin was getting worse.
1:21.1	He was starting to refuse the bottle.
1:24.7	And I will remember this for the rest of my life.
1:28.0	The GP said, well, it's extremely fashionable for babies to have reflux these days, and you're a first-time mum, this is what babies are like. And so I sort of
1:34.5	walked away without a prescription and without really knowing where to go from there. New guidance
1:39.7	to help GPs like me spot tell-tale signs earlier coming up later. But first, an all-too-common
1:45.7	problem at this time of year, influenza. There have been headlines about an outbreak of
1:50.8	Aussie flu, the H3N2 strain that caused problems down in Australia this year. And although it's
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