'SARS-like' virus, reflux heartburn, corrective baby helmets
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2012
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In Inside Health this week Dr Mark Porter asks whether headlines identifying a 'SARS Like' virus may cause unnecessary alarm. While this new virus and SARS are both members of the same family, virologist John Oxford explains that they are more like cousins that behave differently.
And should you be worried about the shape of your baby's head? Lots of parents are. Margaret McCartney questions the growing trend for corrective helmets to treat so called 'flat head syndrome'.
Plus Mark Porter visits the first NHS hospital to offer a new approach to treating heartburn.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I am Ed Gamble, host of another BBC |
| 0:04.6 | podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked. But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like |
| 0:09.9 | Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes, the Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylen, |
| 0:15.0 | and comedy specials from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffel and Romesh Ranganathan. |
| 0:19.9 | 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. |
| 0:29.5 | Hello, I'm Dr Mark Porter and thank you for downloading this edition of Inside Health. |
| 0:34.0 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:35.5 | Hello and welcome to Inside Health in today's program, Heartburn. |
| 0:40.4 | As many as a million people in the UK troubled by reflux-related heartburn |
| 0:44.5 | will eventually develop pre-cancerous changes in their lower gullet. |
| 0:49.2 | But which million? |
| 0:50.4 | We talk to one of the driving forces behind new research |
| 0:53.2 | that may help identify those at risk. |
| 0:56.1 | It's not so much you produce too much acid. |
| 0:58.4 | It's the fact that you produce acid in the wrong place. |
| 1:01.9 | We have a design flaw between the gullet and the stomach. |
| 1:05.9 | And what happens is that there's a small sphincter there, |
| 1:08.9 | which is a one-way valve to allow food to go into your stomach, but not the acid to come back, is actually flawed in many cases. And continuing the reflux theme, we visit the first NHS hospital to offer a new approach to treating heartburn, and it can cure it. I often tell patients that doing a know, doing a reflux operation, is exactly getting |
| 1:27.7 | the right shirt for them. You don't want it too loose because they'll get the reflux. You don't want it too tight because they'll get a difficulty in swalling. So it's exactly finding exactly the right collar. And if it's the right collar, it will do the job absolutely correctly. Are you worried about the shape of your baby's head? Lots of parents are. And there's a burgeoning trade in corrective helmets to deal with what's become known as Flathead Syndrome. |
| 1:47.3 | But our helmets are welcome development or an unjustifiable and unnecessary intervention, cashing in on parental concerns. |
| 1:55.0 | Inside Health, Margaret McCartney's not impressed. |
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