What Doctors Don't Tell You, hepatitis E, vertigo
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2012
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The latest addition to the burgeoning ranks of health magazines on the newsagent's shelves is called What Doctors Don't Tell You. The headlines on the front of this month's edition promise to help you sunbathe your diabetes away, end your child's wheezing without drugs, reverse bone loss for good, and avoid hysterectomy by changing your diet. Lynne McTaggart who edits the magazine with her husband responds to the views of Inside Health's resident GP, Dr Margaret McCartney.
The commonest cause of hepatitis in the UK isn't A,B or even C - it's Hepatitis E. Although it may not have the profile of the better known strains it is causing more than its fair share of problems. Dr Harry Dalton who's a consultant gastroenterologist at The Royal Cornwall Hospital is a senior lecturer at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health and a world authority on Hepatitis E. He says we still don't fully understand what the long term effects of hepatitis E may be, particularly on the brain and nervous system.
A listener contacted Inside Health about unpleasant dizziness that happens when she turns over in bed or straightens up after bending down. She wanted to know whether it was likely to be low blood pressure, or a problem with her ears. Dr Mike Jeffreys, a Consultant physician in the Department of Healthcare for Older People at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital explains how benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, or BPPV could be behind her symptoms. And how it can be effectively treated with a simple series of movements to the head called the Epley manoeuvre.
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| 0:41.1 | In today's program, viral hepatitis. |
| 0:43.8 | You'll probably have heard of hepatitis A, B or C. |
| 0:47.1 | You're unlikely to be that familiar with D, but I bet you didn't even know there was a hepatitis E. |
| 0:52.3 | Well, there is. |
| 0:53.0 | And it's now the most common cause of |
| 0:54.6 | hepatitis in the UK. The received wisdom for many years about this condition is that it was a backpacker's |
| 0:59.8 | disease, a disease that you picked up in travelling in an underdeveloped country. And there's been |
| 1:06.0 | a paradigm shift now. We realise this is not just a disease of developing countries. It's right here |
| 1:10.8 | in the UK |
| 1:11.2 | and the rest of Europe. And Vertigo, why pills don't work for one of the most common causes of |
| 1:17.3 | dizziness, but the Eplemaneuver, a simple series of movements of the head, often does, and if you |
| 1:22.8 | have access to YouTube, you can teach yourself how to do it. But first, the latest addition to the burgeoning ranks of health magazines. |
| 1:30.3 | Only this one takes a rather different approach to the likes of men's health and topsoente. |
| 1:35.3 | The cover of this month's edition of what doctors don't tell you, |
| 1:39.2 | promises to help you sunbathe your diabetes away, |
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