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-I'm Dr Chris.

-And I'm Dr Xand.

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-We're identical twins.

-Twins!

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Do you know, your body does loads of amazing things every day

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without you even realising it? Now, come and have a look at this.

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And we're going to show you how.

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Smell my armpits!

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-We've got gobsmacking experiments...

-Wow!

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..mind-bending body tricks...

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..and real medical mysteries.

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I got hit with a wooden cricket bat.

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So, are you ready to see what you're made of?

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-Coming up today on

-BOTH: Operation Ouch!...

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So, that's where you are! Have you been in there all along?

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We show you the Ouch poo factory.

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We have made the perfect poo.

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What's going on in today's Mindbenders?

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It's us!

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And Xand deals with dizziness.

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HE LAUGHS

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But, first...

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..we're giving you exclusive access to an

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accident and emergency department.

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Let's meet our first patient.

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In Sheffield Accident and Emergency,

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seven-year-old Logan's all bandaged up.

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What happened, Logan?

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-I broke my arm.

-Oh. How did you do that?

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Playing football.

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Playing football? Let's see exactly what happened.

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Logan was at football camp learning new skills.

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He can dribble, head the ball and score goals,

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just like Lionel Messi.

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Then it was penalties and Logan's turn in goal.

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He save it. Brilliant!

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-Up steps the second player.

-Logan saves again.

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-But why's he holding his arm, Chris?

-Let's look at that again.

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The ball came rocketing in. Logan saved bravely,

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-but look at his wrist.

-It's bent right back.

-Ouch!

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Here to save the day is top doctor, Reddy Ilavala.

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Hi, Logan. Are you all right?

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First, he needs to check Logan's injury.

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-Ow.

-Ooh, bit sore there.

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It's very important that there's a good blood supply to the

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tips of Logan's fingers.

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OK, just touch your thumb. Is that OK? Can you feel it?

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If he's got any numbness or pins and needles,

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then we need to manipulate, like, straightaway -

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in the emergency department.

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Once he's happy that Logan's hand has a good blood supply

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and is not numb, Dr Ilavala

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sends him off for some X-ray pictures that will

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reveal the damage.

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First one, then two x-rays.

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Another satisfied customer.

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With the x-rays all done, what's Dr Ilavala's verdict?

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It's broken in two places and it's also gone backwards as well.

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Ooh, double ouch!

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Time to, uh, break the news...

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Xand!

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It definitely needs to be, you know, manipulated into place

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and they might have to put some wires and things like that as well.

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So, Logan has to have an operation to fix his broken arm.

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But, first, it's put in a temporary splints to keep him comfy.

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All done. Logan's moved to another ward, where he'll spend the night.

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Find out later how he gets on.

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-Ready to see some amazing experiments?

-Yes! A triumph!

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It can get a bit gross, but we're going to show you

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how your incredible body works.

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Just don't try anything you see here at home.

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Today, we're looking at diarrhoea.

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Chris, you haven't seen my diarrhoea sample anywhere, have you?

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I can't find it anywhere.

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Oh, here it is.

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Now, let's get on with today's experiment, shall we?

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Have you got your sample?

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Well, that isn't very runny!

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I thought we agreed on diarrhoea.

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Look, I just thought it might be better to compare a normal

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solid poo with a runny one.

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Now, everyone gets diarrhoea from time to time

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and one of the most common reasons is if you get a tummy bug

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and the result is that your body ejects

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the contents of your digestive system as quickly as possible.

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Now, as you can see, Chris's plain, solid poo

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looks completely different to mine.

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But that isn't the only difference. One of these poos weighs more.

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So, which of them do you think weighs more?

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Chris's solid poo or Xand's runny poo?

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As you can see, my diarrhoea poo is a lot heavier

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than Chris's normal poo, but why?

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Why is diarrhoea heavier and runnier than normal poo?

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Well, we're going to show you.

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Oh, Xand, welcome to my poo factory.

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Wow!

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Wait a minute, are these my ballet tights?!

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Yes, I'm just using them as part of the poo factory,

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and they are proving to be very, very effective fake intestines,

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but don't worry, don't worry, you can have them back later.

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First up, let's make a solid poo.

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Get the masher.

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And mash.

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This bowl is like the inside of your mouth, chewing up the food.

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To help mash it up, your body adds saliva,

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enzymes, and it's all washed down with a drink.

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OK, Xand, I think that's enough.

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It's time to move it from the mouth to the intestines.

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This is like you swallowing.

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Nice work. Once the mashed up food his your intestines,

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the muscular walls of your gut push

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the food along and squeeze out all the goodness.

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So, you can see this rich liquid full of all the nutrients

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and the water is coming out of the guts and going into the body,

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which is these metal trays.

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And what's left is the indigestible stuff that's going to

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become your poo. Well, Xand, I think it's time to poo.

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There you go.

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Much, much more solid than it was at the beginning.

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Nice, dry, well-formed poo.

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We have made the perfect poo.

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And look how much water is in the tray.

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Our fake intestines managed to get almost all the water out of our poo.

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This water, full of nutrients, gets reabsorbed back into the body

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and delivered to where it's needed.

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So, if that's what happens to make a normal poo, what happens

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when you make diarrhoea?

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Well, it all starts in the same way.

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Right, Xand, put the food in the mouth and start chewing.

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Just as before, we add the same food and mixture but, this time,

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our poor intestines are dealing with a tummy bug. Time to swallow.

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So, now, something different happens.

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The tummy bug makes your guts draw in extra water

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from your body, pushing everything through your system superfast.

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What I've got here is a high-pressure hose

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and I'm going to use this to demonstrate what happens

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when your guts draw in water from your body. Chris, are you ready?

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I am ready.

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Three, two, one. Go!

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Here it comes.

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Oohh, that's good, Xand, that's good.

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Oh...look at that.

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That is amazing, Xand.

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Ooh, that's enough.

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Xander's turned my perfect poo factory

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into the world's first diarrhoea machine.

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So, we've shown you that diarrhoea is heavier

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and runnier than normal poo because your intestines don't get the chance

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to do their job and all the water that should have been absorbed,

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like the normal poo, ends up in the toilet.

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And you can see that in our trays. There's almost no water

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in our trays at all with the diarrhoea.

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And that's why it's also a good idea to drink plenty of water,

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or rehydration drinks, when you have diarrhoea.

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Because they replace the nutrients and water your body has lost.

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Speaking of drinks, all this experimentation

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is making me thirsty.

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Chris, I'm not sure you want to be drinking that.

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-That's my backup diarrhoea sample.

-Eurgh!

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We're on call with the UK Emergency Services,

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showing you what it's really like on the front line saving lives.

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On call with me is paramedic Jan Vann.

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This is a rapid response vehicle,

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and it's on standby 24/7 to

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respond to whatever emergency call's coming in.

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Today I'm going along for the ride - and guess what?

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You're coming with me.

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Jan can take ten to 15 emergency callouts in a day.

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And a new case is just in.

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We've been called to a 78-year-old man.

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Apparently his jumper has caught fire.

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Now, I don't know if he's put the fire out but it sounds as if

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he's got badly burned so we need to get there quickly.

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I've got my camera. Eric's in the back with his camera.

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So you're going to see whatever we see.

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Within minutes,

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we arrive at the scene and Jan is checking on the patient.

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How's your breathing feel? Is it just painful to breathe?

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-Not really, no.

-No? OK. Is it just pain that's the problem?

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-It's burning round this area, both sides.

-OK.

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John was in the kitchen, cooking,

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and a flame set the back of his jumper alight.

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Luckily for John, his wife, Cynthia, and daughter, Laura, who's a nurse,

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were on hand to extinguish the flames with a damp tea towel.

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That's what's left of John's shirt, so it's been quite a bad fire.

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So, John has burned quite a large area on his back.

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His family have done a really good job of getting it cool

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and keeping it clean with some clingfilm.

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Jan gets a cold dressing on John to keep the burn cool.

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-I think it's making me shiver more.

-Yeah, it will do.

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But, at the same time, he needs to be kept warm.

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He's very brave.

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Jan decides to give John a painkiller.

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The ambulance has just arrived. We are going to get you in.

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All right, chap. A couple of bumps.

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There is a lot of amazing people here.

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Jan, of course, does an incredible job.

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But also, Cynthia and Laura, John's wife and daughter,

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really looked after him well

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and the ambulance crew are getting him to hospital.

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It's a whole team effort

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and it's going to get him a really good result.

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Still to come...

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We go undercover.

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Just walk sideways, like I am. Just like that.

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Xand gets his skates on...

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Now, my problem is that I'm already dizzy!

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And our Ouch-mobile clinic is open for business.

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Next patient, please!

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Back in accident and emergency,

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Logan is ready for surgery on his arm.

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Well, let's see him get fixed!

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All right.

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In accident and emergency, seven-year-old Logan

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is on his way to surgery after breaking his arm playing football.

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Logan was at football camp learning new skills.

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He was in goal and he saved the first penalty.

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And the second.

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But the ball bent back his arm and broke it.

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Here to sort it all out, surgeons...

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Logan has been put under general anaesthetic

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so he won't feel any pain during the operation.

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First, Logan's arm gets a good clean before the surgeon starts

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fixing the broken bones.

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Mr Varghese then manipulates the bones and moves them

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back into their correct position.

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We have to bend it a bit more to make it a bit straighter.

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Almost there. A few more tweaks and, bingo!

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The bones in Logan's arm are nice and straight.

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Now Mr Varghese needs to make sure the bones don't wobble about.

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He inserts two strong wires into Logan's bones which will be

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removed once it has healed.

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It may look painful, but Logan is under anaesthetic

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and he can't feel a thing.

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After a final check on the X-ray plus a new cast,

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Logan is good to go.

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A few hours later and he is up and about.

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And looking pretty cool in his new sling.

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DR XAND AND DR CHRIS: Bye!

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-'Now, we're going to mess with your minds...'

-It's weird.

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..scramble your senses and baffle your brain,

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in...

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This is Anywheresville, UK and two ordinary workmen are going about

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their business fixing the pavement.

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It's us.

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Today, we're testing the theory that people will do pretty much anything

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that someone in authority tells them to do.

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And it works even better if you're wearing a uniform.

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So we're dressed like this.

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We've got a fake building site and loads of hidden cameras.

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So I've got a hidden camera in my glasses...

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I've got a hidden camera in my clip,

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and that lady over there has got a hidden camera in that black bag.

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-Right, Xand let's get back to work.

-OK.

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Will people really do as they're told, no matter how silly?

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If you guys are going to come through, can you turn sideways?

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Yeah. Like this.

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And then when you walk through, just go like that.

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Just like that. OK?

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Just walk sideways, like I am.

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Just like that. Just sideways like that, cos of the wet cement.

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-Just go sideways.

-OK.

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Thank you very much. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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Thank you. Just go sideways, like that. Thank you. Perfect.

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Once you're through that's great. Sideways. And look at the concrete.

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You're doing such a good job.

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Great, now walk backwards.

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That is ideal. Sir, if you are coming through, just go sideways.

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Just go sideways, like that.

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Thanks very much.

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There, you're good now.

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So what reason did people have for doing exactly what we told them?

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They looked like they were builders,

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so we trusted them and did what they said.

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If someone was dressed normally, I wouldn't listen to them

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but if you're dressed like you're in authority, I listen.

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I walked sideways, like they asked and I thought,

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I look a bit silly doing that!

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Yeah, I just done it because...

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-To be nice, I suppose!

-Yeah.

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We obviously thought, because it was a man in uniform,

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we thought we was obliged to follow his orders.

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-I thought it was a bit weird, but I did it anyway!

-Yeah!

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When people are asked to do something by a stranger,

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even if they don't want to do it, they'll often do it,

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either out of fear of getting into trouble or to please the stranger.

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-Right, Chris, shall we get packed up and go?

-Yeah, let's go.

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Hold on, Xand. As you go past the concrete,

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I want you to turn backwards and then hop on one leg.

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If you say so.

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We are at a theme park to solve your medical mysteries.

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Chris is preparing the Ouch-mobile for his first patient.

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And Xand is out in the park to answer your burning questions.

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That's amazing!

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-Next patient, please.

-Hello, Dr Chris.

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First in is 12-year-old Arthur who wants his scalp seen.

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Arthur, what's brought you to the Ouch-mobile today?

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I have some dry, flaky patches of skin on my scalp and over my body.

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What's the diagnosis, Doc?

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So this sounds like a classic case of...

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Couldn't have put it better myself.

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OK, Arthur. Do you want to open up the eyelid?

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Now, lean forward.

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So you have got this flaky skin there and then

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some of the flakes of skin are actually in your hair.

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So Arthur has got this really common condition called psoriasis.

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Psoriasis is where your body makes too many skin cells

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at particular points, which is why they start flaking off.

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How does psoriasis come about?

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So it is a little bit genetic,

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-so you get it a bit from your mum and dad...

-Yes.

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..but it's partly with to do with your body having an increased

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amount of inflammation at those sites.

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So you get too many skin cells, which is

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-why you have to brush them off and moisturise.

-OK.

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Arthur, thanks very much

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for bringing in your psoriasis to see me.

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I'm out and about. Let's see if anyone has got any questions for me.

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Why is a verruca so infectious?

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-Verrucas are designed to be infectious.

-That's right, Xand.

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Viruses want to spread and take over the world.

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They get on your feet and then they kill the cells in your feet

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and get them to spread bits of virus over the floor

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and other people get them on their feet.

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They ride around in swimming pools, changing room floors,

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things like that.

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So if you've got a verruca, cover your foot

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when you go to the swimming pool.

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And if you haven't got a verruca, make sure you keep your feet clean.

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Chris is back at the Ouch-mobile.

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Next patient, please.

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Next into the clinic is nine-year-old Jessica.

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So, Jessica, what brings you to the Ouch-mobile today?

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Well, my joints are very floppy and I've got pseudoachondroplasia.

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What the diagnosis, Doc?

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This sounds like a classic case of...

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'Easy for you to say!'

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So let's have a look. Do you want to open the eye?

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I'll give you a hand.

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So can you show us on the Ouch-cam, your floppy joints?

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Oh, wow! OK, yeah, so they are very floppy, aren't they?

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-I can bend my hand back to my wrist.

-Right back! Wow!

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So you said you've got this thing called pseudoachondroplasia.

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-Yes.

-So can you show us what are the other things that go with that?

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I'm shorter than all my friends.

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If I stand next to you, that will be very obvious, won't it?

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Because you're about half my height.

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-And most nine-year-olds would be taller, wouldn't they?

-Yeah.

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OK, so pseudoachondroplasia is a medical condition

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that makes you short.

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Because your bones don't grow properly.

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And that's because there is a problem with

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one of the genes for this protein called collagen.

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Collagen is in your joints and it makes your ears,

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it makes all the soft, gristly bits of your body.

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-What makes my joints bend back really far?

-I think it's because,

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the way the collagen is produced actually kills

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some of the bone cells while they would normally be growing.

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So all of that makes your joints more flexible.

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-Is there anything cool about having pseudoachondroplasia?

-Well,

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when I was younger, me and my friends like to play hide and seek,

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so I could always hide in smaller places.

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So you can win hide and seek because you can get into the smallest place?

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-Yes.

-OK, so Jessica, thank you very much for coming in

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-with your pseudoachondroplasia.

-Thank you very much, Dr Chris.

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That was a real pleasure.

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Job done for today.

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-Xand, what on Earth are you doing?

-Oh, Chris.

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I'm about to meet two ice skaters from CBBC's Ice Stars.

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-And I'm trying to figure out how they do their amazing spins.

-Whoa!

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-You're not going to wear that, are you?

-Of course I am!

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It was very expensive. Don't you like it?

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No, I do, I like it very much.

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I just think you don't want to embarrass the skaters

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because they might not have any clothing that's quite so... so...

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-Sparkly.

-Sparkly, exactly. Yes.

-That would be bad, to embarrass them.

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I'll go and change.

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Well, that saved him from embarrassing both of us.

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Time for "Investigation Ouch!".

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Meet Kloe and Alexia.

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They star in CBBC's Ice Stars.

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They can spin on the ice at incredible speeds without

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getting dizzy and falling over.

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Do you want to have a go at spinning, Xand?

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I thought you'd never ask!

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-Hang on, I'm going to come to the side of you.

-Bend.

-OK, so bend.

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-And then...

-Yeah?

-Kind of rotate yourself and then pull in.

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-Now, my problem is that I'm already dizzy!

-Really?

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And then you've got to skate off and keep going... I couldn't...

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Maybe a little more practice will help me out.

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Yes, yes, I've got him!

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I'd better leave this to the professionals.

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So, when you're doing your spins,

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how many times do you think you go around?

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-Maybe about 25?

-..Ish, yeah. Maybe more.

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-25 complete turns around.

-Yeah.

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And at the end of that, do you feel dizzy at all?

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We don't really have time to be dizzy, I don't think so.

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Now, I know you thought I was brilliant,

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but I can't compete with Alexia and Kloe on the ice.

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So I've got a little experiment to see how we all deal with dizziness

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on the safety of dry land.

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-Right, you ready?

-Ready.

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We are each going to do a spin followed by

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walking to the table and pouring a glass of water.

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Let's see how I fare against these two.

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HE CHUCKLES

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OK, hang on. Hang on. Hang on, hang on. OK.

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That wasn't very successful!

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OK, and are you ready? OK, go.

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Let's see how the ice skaters do.

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Oh, wow!

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Oh, wow. What, nothing?

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That's why I couldn't do the spins on the ice, isn't it?

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That's probably the only reason.

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When you spin around, the fluid in your inner ear spins, too.

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When you stop spinning, the fluid keeps moving, but your eyes

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tell you that you are still, and that makes you feel dizzy.

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The skaters are brilliant at dealing with the effects of spinning.

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But how do they do it?

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I've come to meet Dr Barry Seemungal,

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one of the country's top experts in dizziness.

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Now, all of us know what dizziness feels like, but for some people,

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it can actually be quite a serious problem, can't it?

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If it happens out of the blue, when you're not expecting it,

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this can be due to problems in the inner ear or the brain.

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And you have done a study on ballet dancers. Why have you studied them?

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Ballet dancers have actually been training for most of their life

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and that suppresses their sensations of dizziness.

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So, what are those brain mechanisms that allow ballet dancers

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to not feel dizzy?

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If we can understand that, we can use that to treat patients.

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This is Dr Barry's dizzy lab.

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The most important part of it is this, a special chair that

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allows Dr Barry to see how different people deal with dizziness.

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He's going to run some tests on me and the ice stars

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to see how differently our bodies cope.

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This experiment will be conducted in the dark,

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so I can't see when I'm turning.

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After just under a minute in the chair,

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something very strange happens.

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I feel completely still, it's really interesting.

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Like, I would absolutely promise you that I'm not moving.

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Yes, that's because the fluid in the canals in the inner ear

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are now moving together with your skull.

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What we're going to do, we're going to stop the chair.

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Whoa!

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It just feels like I'm definitely moving in the opposite direction.

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The fluid in my inner ears is still spinning and you can see

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from my eyes flicking that my brain still thinks I'm moving.

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Now it's the girls' turn.

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Let's see if, when the chair stops, they still think they're moving.

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-Do you feel you're moving?

-No.

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-Not moving at all?

-No.

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Well done.

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-OK, do you feel like you're spinning?

-No.

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-You don't?

-No.

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-Not at all?

-No.

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I've never seen anyone with zero response.

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-She just isn't getting dizzy at all.

-Not at all.

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When the chair stopped,

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you were feeling as if you were turning for more than half a minute.

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These guys were right, they felt no sensation of self-motion,

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because their brains are better than yours at suppressing dizziness.

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All right, don't get too smug!

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Thank you, Alexia and Kloe.

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Dr Barry's research has shown that the part of the brain which

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deals with dizziness is actually smaller in people who train

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to spin like Kloe and Alexia.

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Incredible!

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What's amazing about this

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is it could have very real medical benefits.

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If Dr Barry can train people's brains to cope with dizziness,

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it could really help them lead better lives.

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Right.

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I'm off to practise my spinning around.

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I'm not sure that's how you do it, Xand.

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Let's head back to accident and emergency to meet our next patient.

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You are not going to believe this one.

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But I believe everything on Operation Ouch!.

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-It's a figure of speech, Xand.

-Good!

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In accident and emergency,

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seven-year-old Emily is waiting with a terrible toe.

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Ooh, that looks sore.

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Stanley did it.

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Stanley?

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He looks far too sweet and innocent for that!

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He dropped a photograph on my toe.

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A photograph? How did that happen?

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It was a Sunday at home.

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Emily and her brother Stanley were in Emily's bedroom.

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-Oh, I like those pink walls!

-I think you'll find it lilac, Xand.

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-Well, what were they up to?

-They were playing.

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Hide and seek?

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One, two, three, found you!

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-I don't think so, Xand.

-Making a den?

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-That's what you used to do.

-I still do.

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They were just messing around when all of a sudden,

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Stanley knocked a heavy photo frame off the windowsill

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and it fell straight onto Emily's toe.

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Ouch!

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-Does it hurt, Emily?

-Yeah.

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Dr Reddy Ilavala's here again to look at that damaged digit.

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-Can you wriggle your toes for me?

-EMILY'S MUM:

-Wriggle your toes.

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Just making sure your joints are all right, yeah?

0:25:540:25:57

-Is it just your nail that hurts, sweetheart?

-The whole...

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That bit, where you touched it.

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On examination, there was blood underneath the nail,

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so it was under tension and very painful for her.

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We will try to relieve the pressure by putting a small hole.

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We call that...

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A knock to the toe can cause blood and pressure to build up

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behind the nail, causing pain.

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Trephining involves a special heated tool

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to make a small hole in the toenail.

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This will relieve the built-up blood and pressure

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and make Emily's toe happy again.

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Em, swallow.

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To make sure it doesn't hurt, Emily is having some painkillers.

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Dr Reddy gets trephining.

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It might look drastic, but Emily will be so much better

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when the pressure is released from under her toe.

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Little brother Stanley is there for support.

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-Blood is coming out.

-DR REDDY:

-Yeah, see?

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With the blood drained,

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a plaster is put on Emily's toe to protect it from infection.

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It might take it might take a week or two,

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but the nail will fall off and a fresh nail will grow back.

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TOE-rrific. Emily gets a brand-new nail.

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So what's the plan now, Emily?

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I'm going to be careful with my toe.

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Good idea.

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Stanley, you've got to look out for your sister.

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Off she hops into the distance.

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DR XAND AND DR CHRIS: Bye!

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Next time on Operation Ouch!...

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We investigate why skin goes wrinkly...

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-Xand, what are you doing?

-I'm having a bath.

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Our mind-bending trick is one for your eyes.

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Xand and I need to change colour.

0:27:310:27:34

And Chris finds out why Luke is doing all this exercise.

0:27:340:27:38

-Here you can see the heart muscle.

-Are you sweating yet?

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-So that's it till next time...

-From Operation Ouch!

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SIRENS WAIL

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Chris, you haven't seen my diarrhoea sample, have you, anywhere?

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I can't find it.

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THEY SPLUTTER

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Oh, here it is!

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You got it?

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