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Hayfever management; Generic drugs; Diclofenac; Breastfeeding and cheese molars; Pacemakers; Antibiotics and MS

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Should private clinics be offering out dated injections for hay fever? Cheese Molars - why do up to 1 in 7 British children have soft yellow teeth? And generics versus branded medicines - why pay more for the same thing?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Greg Jenna and good news, Your Dead to Me is back for a new series. Here we go. Yes, we'll explore Emperor Nero's notorious reign with Professor Marybeard and Patton Oswald. I would not want my daughter having the remote control, not alone an empire. We'll dissect the decadent life of Philippe Duke-Dor-Leon with Tom Allen. I've often tried to pretend I'm an aristocrat and being very quickly knocked down. And there'll be so much more with comedians like Olga Koch, Mike Mosniak and Ria Lina. I'm excited. You're dead to me, the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Listen first on BBC Sounds. Hello, I'm Dr Mark Porter and thank you for downloading this edition of Inside Health. I hope you enjoy it.

0:39.0

Coming up in today's program, painkillers and heart disease, this week regulatory authorities

0:44.3

have issued new guidance on the use of the popular anti-inflammatory dichlofenac, following research

0:50.3

showing that the drug increases the risk of stroke and heart attack. But if doctors are

0:55.0

being advised to prescribe safer alternatives for people with arthritis and similar conditions,

1:00.4

why is it still available over the counter for sprains and strains? I'll be asking the regulator.

1:06.3

The most common childhood dental problem that you've never heard of. Inside health has discovered that as many

1:12.5

as one in seven young children now have yellowed and weakened teeth, so-called cheese molars,

1:18.3

and the longer a child is breastfed, the greater the risk appears to be. About 15 years ago,

1:23.5

dentists started to notice that increasing number of children were being brought in to see them.

1:28.7

And when they looked at these children, they realised that this was not dental decay, this was something

1:33.1

completely different. And I discover what's involved in having a pacemaker fitted. If it's good

1:38.4

enough for Sir David Attenborough, then it's good enough for us. And generics versus branded

1:42.8

medicines, why pay more for the same thing?

1:46.1

But first, Inside Health has learned that during a particularly bad hay fever season,

1:50.6

some private clinics are offering a one-off steroid jab to help.

1:54.7

The most popular version is prescribed under the brand name Kenilog,

1:58.1

but it's increasingly hard to find an NHS doctor who uses the injection.

2:03.0

It's not banned, but the use of Kenilog in hay fever is now widely frowned upon,

2:07.9

which presumably is why private clinics are offering it, supply and demand and all that.

2:13.1

But are they right to do so?

2:14.9

To discuss this inside health resident skeptic Dr Margaret McCartney and Dr James Cave, who edits the drug

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