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Inside Health

Genes and confidentiality; sore throats and cancer; diet for epilepsy; shaving for hospital drips

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Genetics and confidentiality; a fascinating legal case where a woman is suing the hospital trust that looked after her father with Huntington's disease for not warning that she too could be affected. And a well established use of very low carb diets that isn't so well known - to treat complex childhood epilepsy. Plus cancer of the voice box and persistent sore throat. And should hairy arms be shaved for a hospital drip? This question has prompted a transatlantic spat when Sir Andy Murray posted a photograph after his recent hip operation.

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0:00.0

Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast,

0:05.4

The Traitors Uncloaked. But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's

0:10.6

Saturday bonus episodes, the Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Ryland, and comedy specials

0:16.2

from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffel and Rommas Shranger Nathan. However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncloked.

0:24.3

So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds.

0:30.8

BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.

0:34.5

Hello, coming up today, sore throats and headlines prompted by new research suggesting that persistent

0:41.0

soreness can be a sign of cancer of the larynx. To shave or not to shave, that's the question

0:47.8

prompted by Andy Murray's hairy arms in a photograph taken after his recent hip operation. Margaret

0:53.5

McCartney has been investigating the pros and the cons.

0:57.2

And cutting out the carbs to treat epilepsy.

1:00.6

I meet the parents who are using diet to help their son's seizures.

1:04.5

So he's tried four different medications and none of them have helped.

1:08.1

Did all the medicines that he was taking, did they have an effect on him?

1:11.2

Yeah, he's very, very sleepy.

1:13.9

In November, we had clinic with our neurologist.

1:17.2

He wanted to add another drug and just up and up his medication

1:20.4

and then I had to say no, because it's not Edward anymore,

1:23.8

he's just like a different child.

1:26.1

So then he said the alternative is that he could

1:29.0

be referred to go on to Keat genetic diet. More from Edward and his family later. But first,

1:34.6

we continue last week's genetics theme with a fascinating legal case that hit the headlines recently.

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