Episode Guide
Boys, Boys, Boys
First broadcast on Wednesday 29th October 2008, 8pm Channel 4
Repeated Wednesday 22nd July 2009, 8pm Channel 4
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The doctors are back meeting some of the patients from the Embarrassing Teenage Bodies series. With this week’s episode focusing on boys, the doctors are itching to find out whether Nathan’s Acne has cleared up, and whether Martin’s man-boobs have been given the heave-ho.
The docs have headed down to Newquay to find out what boys on a jolly by the seaside like to get up to. First through the tent doors is 17-year old Tom, who’s found a worrying lump on his testicle and wants Dr Dawn to check it out. The diagnosis is varicocele, an enlarged vein that is normally benign, but can impact on future fertility. Dawn packs Tom off to the fertility clinic to get things checked out.
Back on the beach Dr Christian is delivering some eye-watering advice to a group of unruly teenagers on the dangers posed by STIs, whilst 18-year-old Martin comes into the clinic with a condition that means he’s the only one not sunning himself on the beach that day. Dr Dawn’s diagnosis is gynaecomastia, or man-boobs, but whilst surgery can be an option, in Martin’s case the advice is just to wait and see if they disappear once puberty has finished.
Dr Christian next goes above and beyond the call of duty by entering a teenage campsite. With everything from festering athlete’s foot to revolting skidmarks on display, these band of boys come with a health warning! Dr Christian packs their underpants off to the lab and there are some shocking results later on.
In the beach clinic, 17-year-old lifeguard Jack has rolled in with a bizarre condition called surfer’s ear. This occurs when someone is continually exposed to cold water, and leads to bony growths in the ear hole. It can be operated on, but earplugs are a much better solution to preventing the problem.
With Christian still traumatised from his trip to the Newquay encampment, it’s left to Dr Pixie to make a house call to a group of teenagers whose alcohol consumption the night before was truly staggering. With the teens feeling pretty good about their overnight endeavours, they get a sobering wake-up call from Pixie about the dangers of liver disease, and are shocked to learn that most of them are still over the drink driving limit from the night before…
Totting up units of alcohol might seem taxing, but it’s nothing compared to 16-year-old Jonathan’s daily routine when dealing with diabetes. With his confidence low, Dr Christian sends him to meet Trinity Wildcats Rugby star Danny Sculthorpe, who has conquered his Type 1 diabetes and no longer lets it rule his life.
And finally there’s 16-year-old Nathan, whose acne has seen him withdraw within himself. A consultation with Dr Dawn sees Nathan prescribed a course of antibiotics and several weeks later his skin is showing signs of improvement, though the treatment is long term.
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The ETB team would like to thank:
Hydrohealing
Diabetes UK
Trevelgue Holiday Park
Artemis Medical
Health Edco
Education and Resources for Improving Childhood Continence
Andrology Solutions Fertility Clinic
Val Edward-Jones, Professor of Medical Microbiology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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have been suffering from exma for all my life, at the age of 16 the exma in my nipples has left them out of shape and outwards most the time, they are often very hard, infected and this can be painful and uncomfortable and the best of times. please get back to me with a solution as the doctors think this will gradually go as muscle tissue grows within the chest as i age.
My penis is not hairy and im 21 :/
Over the past year or so i gained a syst near one of my testicles. I had visited the doctor and they sent me to a hospital where they said its fine and nothing to worry about. Now it seems to have increased in size and sometimes feels as if it has transferred to the other testicle. Now my worry is, after doing research i found that a syst may mean cancer in the long run as well as a reducement of having children in the future.
hi I have lumps up my penis and on my scrotum and I'm pretty sure there not warts because they have hairs growing outta each lump ?? and I have no reckolection of how I got them and I'm really starting to get worried soo pleasee!!! thanks conor
i have samll white spots all over my penis, can you help?
what can i do.. my foreskin can come back fine when on flop. every thing is fine down there but it just wont come bak when erected
Hi my name is Sam and im 18 years of age. when i was checking down below i noticed i wasnt normal at all!!! Where my testicals are they are more lodged to one side and theres an extra baggage of skin Can you please help me i wont go to the docters as im too embaressed!!
hi im 19, and my penis when erect is only 4-5 inches long,and i have a thin girth is this normanl?i have compared myself to others in the changing room and they all seem to be massive.
Hi, I'm 18 and my foreskin has never been able to pull back. At all. Everything else is in working order, it's just that the skin is all tightly bunched at the tip and does not stretch a bit. Is there anything I can do, like an operation? Help please!
hi – i am 18 and have one ball bigger then the other- it is like the smaller one has not dropped…..... i had a double hernia operation when i was a baby, could that mean that it has been caught up or something … any suggestions to what can be done?
