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Inside Health

Sickness Absence, Ankle Arthritis, Hot Flushes, Guillain-Barre Syndrome

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Inside Health examines advice for when parents should and shouldn't send their sick children to school. Is this another example of the nanny state, or a useful guide?

Hip replacements and knee replacements are well known treatments but now a new trial is looking into the effectiveness of ankle surgery for arthritis.

Margaret McCartney reveals the origin of the word hypochondria.

Plus, how effective is HRT for the commonest symptom of the menopause, hot flushes?

And Inside Health answers listeners' questions on Guillain-Barré syndrome, what are the causes and treatments.

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.

0:37.7

I hope you enjoy it.

0:39.3

Hello, we've an eclectic mix for you today.

0:41.9

Coming up in the next half hour, ankle pain,

0:44.6

we meet a surgeon taking part in the world's first ever trial

0:48.2

into the best way to treat advanced osteoarthritis of the ankle.

0:52.5

Do you fuse the joint or do you replace it?

0:55.6

Hypercondriac, we answer a listener's question as to the origins of the term and the menopause.

1:01.8

Does this ring any bells?

1:03.6

I was walking down the street, feeling all so neat, went into a cafe found myself a seat.

1:10.2

Bing, bang, shalemalang, is it me or is it hot in here?

1:15.7

Hot flushes.

1:16.9

I'll be talking to a leading authority on HRT to find out how it should be used to help women struggling with them.

1:23.4

And we investigate Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare but fascinating cause of paralysis.

1:29.5

When I came to in ICU, my family told me that I had been totally paralysed.

1:35.9

I had no expression in my face and I couldn't move my mouth, so I couldn't even mouth words at them.

1:42.4

But first, how confident are you when it comes to deciding if your child should have a day off

1:47.4

school when they're ill? Well, a new booklet issued to parents in South Wales, a parent's guide

1:53.3

to managing sickness absence from school, has caused some upset, according to reports in the press.

1:59.4

Inside Health, Dr Margaret McArtony has been following the story.

2:02.3

Margaret, I've got the booklet here, and it all looks to be something of a storm in a teacup.

2:06.6

The guidance actually looks quite good to me.

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