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The first patient this week is a woman who has lost 55kg but has been left with baggy excess skin. Brad attempts to help her lose her unwanted apron of skin for good. Ginni takes a look at a man with an extremely tight foreskin and refers him to a urologist for a circumcision. Sam attempts to persuade some men to look after their health by having regular prostate examinations.Christian gets a group of Auatralians to have a closer look at the colour of their urine.
The team are in Melbourne where they are on a mission to tackle men's health issues. The first case features a man with a large cyst full of fluid on one of his testicles. They also try to help a patient with warts on his bottom caused by the human papilloma virus.
The Embarrassing Bodies clinic has opened its doors for a one off special looking at the conditions and problems that affect older people. It’s a fact that we’re going to have to get used to living longer in older bodies, and the EB doctors are here to show that there’s nothing embarrassing about getting old.
First through the clinic doors is Derek who is suffering from a condition that is very common in women, but is much less understood in men. The condition is called andropause, and is where a man’s testosterone levels dip, causing irritability, lack of energy and a lowered sex drive. Fortunately the condition is simple to treat using a testosterone replacement therapy.
Dr Christian takes his dad with him on a visit to the clinic to find out how the body ages, as we get older. Both of them are scanned using an MRI scanner, allowing Dr Christian to compare how the body changes internally as we get older.
The doctors have set up a free clinic for the over 65s in Benidorm, where Dr Christian meets Patricia, whose foot has become mangled by an enormous bunion that has left her in constant pain. Dr Christian thinks that the situation has got so bad that surgery is the only option. Fortunately for Patricia, the new techniques are so effective that she will be in and out of the clinic within a day.
Patricia’s Operation was a 3 Dimensional Osteotomy of the MTI Joint which is done in 3 important steps:
All is done in one procedure without additional incisions.
The diagnosis is not so simple for another lady who’s come to the clinic with a resumption of her periods, four years after she had finished the menopause. Dr Pixie is concerned enough to send her for further tests, as this a potential
In this special episode of Embarrassing Bodies, Dr Christian follows the case of Charlotte Wilson who first came to see him in the clinic at the beginning of 2009. Suffering from a severe case of verrucas. Charlotte and her family were at their wits end; finding it impossible to treat them effectively. Dr Christian recommended that Charlotte’s immune system be checked out, and the results of these tests were to change Charlotte, and her families, lives for ever.
The Embarrassing Bodies doctors are standing up to cancer and taking the emotional medical journey with patients fighting the big C. Dr Christian meets Designer Josh, who tragically lost half his face following the diagnosis of a rare cancer, orbital melanoma. He also meets Dad of two young boys, Danny, diagnosed with bladder cancer at just 39 we follow his treatment to find out if his bladder can be saved.
49 year old Julie comes to see Dr Dawn. Having overcome breast cancer eight years ago, she hopes to have her breasts rebuilt with a pioneering technique. And Dr Dawn first meets 22 year old Natalie at hospital as she undergoes radiotherapy for cervical cancer and we follow her heartbreaking decisions as she battles the disease at such a young age.
Dr Pixie whips up a crowd as she inflates her large bowel and guides the public through the pitfalls of bowel cancer and what symptoms to watch out for, while Dr Christian dons a pair of fake boobs and hits the streets so ladies can see what’s normal and healthy for them.
Along the way, celebrities share their personal stories of how cancer has affected them including Peter Andre, Ken Hom, Jenny Frost, Matt Dawson and Dawn Porter.
