Hospital patients dying of thirst; Paracetamol; Saturated fats; Baclofen and alcoholism
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Headlines this week claim that 'thousands of patients die in hospital of thirst' but did the authors of the study actually analyse hydration?
Mark Porter investigates the evidence for using Baclofen to treat alcoholism and hears how it helped a listener to stop drinking 6-8 bottles of wine a day.
Why did NICE question the use of Paracetamol - the UK's favourite painkiller - in the treatment of osteoarthritis?
And are saturated fats really bad for us?
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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 Rihalina. 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. |
| 0:37.8 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:38.9 | Coming up today, saturated fats, you can't have missed the recent hoo-ha. |
| 0:43.9 | Accepted wisdom has it that the diet rich in these animal-based fats is bad for our hearts. |
| 0:49.9 | So why has a major study, funded by the British Heart Foundation, |
| 0:53.9 | failed to find any evidence to support this? |
| 0:57.0 | And what does it mean for the nation's dietary habits? |
| 0:59.9 | We return for another look at paracetamol. |
| 1:02.5 | It's widely regarded as a safe and effective painkiller. |
| 1:06.0 | So why was the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence |
| 1:09.2 | on the verge of advising people with arthritis |
| 1:11.8 | not to take it to ease their aches and pains |
| 1:15.0 | and medication to help problem drinkers. |
| 1:18.2 | Earlier in this series we debated whether doctors |
| 1:20.3 | should be making more use of medicines |
| 1:22.4 | to help people addicted to alcohol. |
| 1:25.1 | I'll be looking at a new alternative. |
| 1:27.5 | I was drinking anywhere between six and eight bottles of wine a day, perhaps even one to two |
| 1:35.6 | bottles of vodka, and Baclofen reduced it to pretty much nothing, and made a huge difference to my life |
| 1:45.7 | and I kind of wanted to make other people aware of it. |
| 1:48.7 | More from inside health listener George later. |
| 1:52.0 | But first, are patients in NHS hospitals really dying of thirst? |
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