Episode Guide
Episode 2 - Kids
Wednesday 22nd April 2009, 8pm Channel 4
This week’s episode starts with 8-year-old Charlotte from Suffolk who’s been suffering from sore verrucas on her feet for over 2 years. Dr Christian sends Charlotte for tests to check her immune system and try and find out why the virus is winning.
The tests reveal that her immune system is unable to fight the virus and so the usual treatment for verrucas will not do the job. Whilst a formaldehyde treatment produces some encouraging results, further immunology test reveal that she’s missing certain lymphocytes and the possible treatment course includes a bone marrow transplant and chemotherapy.
+++UPDATE+++
Charlotte’s operation to remove the verrucas from her foot appears to have been successful and her foot is healing really well. She’s back on her bike and back to being a normal child, pending a potential bone marrow transplant.
The EB bus heads to Southend, where Dr Priya has a patient with case of cold feet, medically known as Chilblains. Dr Pixie’s patient can’t stop scratching her itchy sores while Dr Christian has a customer with a permanent runny nose due to nasal polyps.
Next up is a visit to the dentist for 27-year-old Lyn from Aberdeen. Lyn arrived to see Dr James because she has an addiction to fizzy drinks that has left her with missing, rotting and discoloured teeth. After extracting the rotten teeth, Dr James recommends implants, but only if Lyn will give up smoking, as it drastically reduces the success rate of the procedure. After a long day in the dental hot seat, Lyn has a new set of pearly whites.
Visiting the clinic next is David, 24, from Shropshire who’s had an embarrassing swelling for more than half his life. None of the treatments and tests have been able to ease his enlarged sore lips. Dr Pixie suggests that the swelling is a possible sign of an allergic reaction. Tests reveal that David is allergic to cinnamon and a long list of preservatives; so he sets off in search of a new diet.
The doctors head to a very windy Southend-on-Sea to meet with a group of kids and their parents at Fairways primary school. Dr Pixie talks to the kids about head lice and shows them up close just how nasty they can be, whilst Dr James teaches the kids a lesson about tooth decay.
Read Dr James’ guide to How to Look After Your Teeth >
Maria, 13, believed she had a case of head lice, but it turned out to be much more serious. Maria actually has scalp psoriasis that causes her scalp to scale and nothing she’s tried has helped. Dr Pixie sends Maria to a hair specialist to get the scaling and inflammation under control with the help of creams and steamers. After three visits to the hair specialist Maria comes back to the clinic and shows Dr Pixie her much improved scalp.
Ever since 43-year-old Sandra from Derby gave birth she’s developed a rather messy problem. Sandra experiences problems with her bottom – it bleeds and causes problems for her hygiene. Dr Pixie diagnoses Sandra with skin tags and sends her to a specialist to try a surgical procedure to clear up her problem. Tests show Sandra’s problem goes deeper than just the skin tags – she’s suffering from a case of rectacil, where her bowel is misshapen. Sandra will have to complete more tests, but pelvic floor exercises have been recommended to help her cause.
The EB Team would like to thank:
Dr Michael Escudier
Orofacial Specialist
Guys’ and St Thomas’ Hospital
Dr Jane Stirling
Consultant Dermatologist
Professor Adrian Thrasher
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Mr Andrew Williams
Consultant Colorectal Surgeon
Guys’ and St Thomas’ Hospital
Carol Walker, Trichologist
British Dental Health Foundation
Sutton Coldfield Musical Theatre Company
The Arcadians
The Argosy
Solihull Operatic Society
Queensbridge Musical Theatre Society
Alexandra Theatre
Baker Street Medical Centre
Film Birmingham
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Hi! I am 14 and I just thought i'd say THANK YOU =) i have learnt loads watching your programmes and hope there will be more episodes! I am going to start checking my boobs for anything. Thank you =) You 3 and everyone who has helped and amazing =)
I was very surprised to see your programme last week and the problems experienced by 43-year-old Sandra from Derby.
I have a similar problem where sometimes I have to encourage stools out by pressing my fingers against the skin around my anus or between my anus and vagina – I can actually feel the stools in there.
I think I have stretched the internal skin and caused a misshapen rectum when trying to help out the stools if they seem particularly stuck, which I did for years as a young woman in a hurry (I'm 48 years old now).
Although I have a very open relationship with my doctor, I am embarrassed by this problem and would like some advice please.
im trying to find the one where the woman had nodular itchy sores, could you please tell me the correct name? usualy affects women btween 30 n late fortys, it was on your last show,i would be very gratefull for a reply, iv had this condition since 1996, and had no succes with my doctor. thankyou.
I think I've the same problem as Sandra-tags & rectacil -for at least 20 years since childbirth. I've never mentioned it to anyone & I'd assumed it was piles. Like Sandra I've had the problem with cleanliness & sex. Help should I try to have it treated or is it too late – I'm 56?
Can you please tell me the name of the cream which was applied to Maria's scalp before it was steamed and if this is available over the counter or on prescription. Thanks
Thank-you for airing the story about the lady with the rectacil problem. Rather, thank-you to her for being brave enough to go on the show. At least I have an inkling of what might be wrong and now dont feel so bad. Thanks again.
I want to thank your programme and in particular the very brave Sandra from Derby. I'm 38 years old and since having my children (I had a 3rd degree tear during my first labour)I have had a small skin tag just outside my anus and I too have real problems with cleanliness exactly as Sandra did. I have never discussed this with anyone and have never sought help being too afraid and embarrassed by it and just in general complete denial about the whole thing. Now I know what is probably causing this and that this is relatively common, I am going to be very brave now myself and go to see my GP. Thanks.
Hi,how r u. i got an question from my sister n need some of your's suggestion. she was 16 years old, and she also got a head like maria(scalp psoriasis) went she was born until now!but the question is she been in malaysia and she has been see by a doctor and a doctor…................. but they still have no idea what is it (they doesn't have any conditional to end it) and the money still been pay out and again and again. could u please given me some suggestion for me please.than you.
I have had a couple of lumps near my anas (sort of between my vagina and anas) since I came into sexual contact about 3/4 years ago. there are a couple of small ones around the larger one, the larger one seems to swell after I have diharrea or strain myself. i dont know if its skin tag because they have a sort of hard root that i can feel when they swell up…. it might be genatal worts, but im told they cure themselves after a while, and of corse mine havent… please please give me some answers as there is nothing else online that can give me any signs of what it can be… and im TOO embarrised to see my doctor… Many Thanks
Sarah.
hi,
i just cried watching when charlotte opened the pressie dr christian brought to the hospital for her. how sweet is he!!!!
i want him as my kids doc
