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Operation Ouch.

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'He is Dr Chris.'

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'He's Dr Xand.

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'And yes, we're twins.

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'Do you know how brilliant your body really is?'

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I'm getting better.

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'Well, we're going to show you.'

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Oh, there you go.

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'In this series, we'll be pushing our bodies to their limits.'

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Hello.

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'By doing extraordinary experiments on each other... '

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This is my sick.

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'.To uncover what goes on inside...'

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Ooh, er, that just came out of my ear.

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'..and out.'

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Wow, that's amazing.

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'From the bizarre...'

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Can we get a sample of your snot? HE GROANS

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'..to the incredible.'

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So now I'm seeing things.

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'It's time to find out what you're made of.'

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Chris. Chris. Chris?

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SIREN WAILS

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Coming up today...

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On Operation Ouch.

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'We bare our teeth to see what happens when you don't brush.'

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DR XAND GROANS

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'This man reveals an amazing body.

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'And prepare yourself for the wonders of wee.'

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-It really smells in here.

-Yes, it does.

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'But first...'

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Each year, over 18 million incidents mean people end up in

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accident and emergency.

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Let's see how the team fix our first patient.

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'In accident and emergency, four-year-old Didi has

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'come in with his mum and dad because he's in a bit of a fix.'

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-(UNCLEARLY)

-I tried to push something up my nose.

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'Say what?'

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I got a call to say he's got a screw up his nose.

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'It's a toy screw, right?'

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No, it's not a toy one. It's an actual screw, yeah.

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'I see.

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'So how on earth did the screw get up there?'

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'Didi and his friend were sitting on a mat at school.

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'Nice mat.'

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'And there was a screw on the mat.

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'Didi loved the look of that screw but so did his friend.'

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'What's the big deal? It's just a screw.'

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'It's not just a screw, Xand.

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'It has a purpose and Didi knew what he had to do.'

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'Repair that desk?'

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'No.'

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'Fix that squeaky window?'

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'No, Xand. He picked up that screw...'

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'I'm on the end of my seat. What did he do?'

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'He put it up his nose because...it fitted.'

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'Oh, bad idea.'

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'Yep, and now it's stuck up there and won't come out.'

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'Ouch.'

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'From the look of him, you wouldn't guess there was a big screw

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'firmly lodged up his left nostril but there is.

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'Now it's over to Dr Mashhood Qazi to get it out.'

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-And, Mum, has he done this before?

-No! He hasn't.

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Am I going to find some gold?

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'No, Doc, there's no gold. It's just a screw.'

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Let me see.

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'Dr Mashhood has a look up Didi's nose to see

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'where the screw is hiding.'

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OK.

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Didi's done a terrific job.

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He's got a big screw up his nose, which we need to take out,

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seriously, otherwise it's going to cause a lot of problems.

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'So to get that screw out,

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'the doctor uses a pair of medical tweezers.

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'This might look uncomfortable but if the screw doesn't come out,

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'it could damage Didi's nose and cause an infection.'

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'But it won't budge, so Dr Mashhood changes tack.'

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SHE BLOWS AIR

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'Didi's mum blocks his right nostril then blows into his mouth to

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'try and push the screw back down the left one.

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'But still no luck.

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'So after two failed attempts and the screw wedged well

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'and truly up there, there's only one option left - an operation.

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'We'll be back later to see how Didi gets on.'

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'And now to our lab...

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Whoa.

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'..where we do incredible experiments.'

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Ugh, it's disgusting.

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'To show you how your body works.'

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It's not pretty to look at but it is brilliant stuff.

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

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Take a look at this.

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It's a skull that's over 100 years old.

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Now, it's from a five-year-old, but look carefully

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and you'll see why I really wanted to show it to you.

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'This skull has two sets of teeth. These are milk teeth.

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'And these are the adult teeth.

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'They're waiting to come through when the milk teeth fall out.

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'But what's amazing about this, is that it's not amazing at all.'

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If you're still waiting for your adult teeth, just think,

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they're already in your head fully grown.

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Underneath your skin, your skull will look just like this one.

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Both sets of teeth are coated with enamel.

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It's the hardest substance in your body.

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It's even harder than bone but it's not indestructible.

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As we're about to find out.

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HE BREATHES

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DR XAND GASPS AND GROANS

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-Does my breath smell bad?

-Yes, it does actually.

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I'm not surprised. I haven't brushed my teeth in two days.

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But it's all for a good cause. Isn't it, Chris?

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I hope so.

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'In fact, it was my idea.

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'Whilst I've been brushing my teeth twice a day, as you should,

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'I haven't let Chris brush his at all for two days.

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'But it's all in the name of medical research.'

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My teeth feel fuzzy.

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That's because Chris has a layer of plaque building up on them.

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Open wide.

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'I'm going to show you why plaque isn't something you want a lot of.

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'When you go to the dentist, you'll have had your teeth

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'scraped like this.'

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-Going anywhere nice on holiday this year, Chris?

-No.

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Oh lovely, I've been there. It's wonderful at this time of year.

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Ugh, Chris, this is disgusting.

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Plaque is a mixture of food particles, acid and bacteria.

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We've all got thousands of different bacteria living in our mouths

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and most of them are harmless but there are some bad ones that

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can turn the sugars in the food we eat into acid.

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'And it's this plaque acid that's the real problem.'

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It eats away at the tooth enamel and that's what tooth decay is.

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Please can I have my toothbrush back now?

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Soon. There's more to show you.

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'We're both going to rinse our mouths with a special blue dye

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'that will show up how much plaque we have on our teeth.

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'It's my brushed gnashers first.

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'Ta-da.'

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-You look really funny.

-You look funny.

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'Now even though Xand has been brushing regularly,

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'you can see some dye has stuck to his teeth and that's all plaque.'

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That makes me a bit worried

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cos I haven't brushed my teeth for over two days.

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-Ugh, why did you do that?

-It was your idea.

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'Well, after a quick rinse with the blue dye it's time to

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'check out the state of my un-brushed teeth.'

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Ugh, there's plaque everywhere. How did you let this happen?

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RECORD SCRATCH

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So if you compare my lovely clean brushed teeth with Chris's

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disgusting, un-brushed teeth, you can really see the difference.

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And all that plaque has built up in just two days.

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That's gross.

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-I feel quite disgusting. I would like my toothbrush back.

-No.

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'I want to get a much closer look at your plaque, Chris,

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'which is why I've put a dollop of it under this microscope.'

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-Look at this.

-Wow.

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So these bacteria are the ones that live in my plaque

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and although we can't tell which are the good ones

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and which are the bad ones, some of them

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are the ones that produce the acid that is rotting my teeth right now.

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Yep, and if you just leave plaque it hardens like cement.

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That's called tartar, and it builds and builds.

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It can damage your gums and give you rotting teeth that look like this.

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Not a good look.

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That's it, I've had enough. I am going to brush my teeth.

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No, he's not.

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The kitchen. For you, it may be the best room in the house

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with its stainless steel work surfaces,

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its fancy oven with two kinds of heat

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and top-of-the-range refrigerator stocked full of goodies.

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But the kitchen can also be a place of danger.

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-Can't it, Xand?

-Yes.

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Is that a fake comedy knife?

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Yes.

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Good, because knives can be dangerous and could cause a bad cut.

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Is that a comedy fake hand?

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Yes.

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Good, because we need safety in the kitchen at all times.

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Now let's relax with a nice cup of tea.

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Ooh, I'll get it. KETTLE WHISTLES

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Isn't that nice of him?

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Ooh, hold on. The water, it's boiling...

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-DR XAND SCREAMS

-Hot.

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Xand, is that a comedy burnt finger?

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No, it's a minor injury.

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'So what should you do if you get a burn?

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'Should you - A - hop up and down and tap it with a wand?

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'B - ask it politely to stop hurting?

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'C - run it under cold water?'

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'Oh, I do like magic, I hope it's option A.'

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The answer is C.

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'So to treat a burn...'

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Run it under the cold tap as quickly as possible

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and keep it there for a good ten minutes to cool the burn down.

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Right, job done.

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-Oh, can we have that cup of tea now?

-Yeah, come on.

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LOUD TRUMP OF WIND

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Was that a comedy whoopee cushion making that noise?

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Yes.

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WIND CONTINUES

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'So remember, run a burn under a cold tap for ten minutes

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'but if you're worried, tell an adult.'

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'We've got some incredible body tricks

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'for you to show your friends.'

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'Want to find out how you can stop your mates from simply

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'picking up something off the floor?'

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'We're going to show you.'

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-Xand, to do this trick, I'm going to need some money.

-Oh, all right.

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It's my lunch money. I'm going to need it back.

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Well, I tell you what, you can have it back

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if you can pick it up off the floor. If you don't pick it up, I get it.

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Sounds quite easy.

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Got it. That was a rubbish trick. Who thinks that was a rubbish trick?

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KIDS: Me.

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All right, well, we'll do it again.

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This time you won't be able to pick up the money.

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So go and stand against the wall.

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Now, keeping your feet where they are,

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I just want you to bend down to pick up the money.

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Come on, Xand, pick it up.

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Chris, what have you done?

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Ah, I can't get it.

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That's hard.

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So it looks like I get the lunch money, doesn't it?

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KIDS BOO

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'Come on, then, let's see if anyone else can do it.

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'He can't.

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'She definitely can't.

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'So why can't anyone, including Xand, pick up the money?'

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When you bend over, your bum pushes back

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and the wall's stopping it from pushing back.

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'George has got it.

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'Normally when you bend over to pick something up, your body will

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'adjust itself backwards in order to balance it out.

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'So when your body's flat against the wall, you can't go backwards

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'and there's no chance of picking up that money.

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'All you can do is fall forwards.'

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So I'm going to need the money back from all of you guys.

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KIDS SHOUT

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Give my money back! Come on, Xand.

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Remember Didi who had a screw lodged up his nose?

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Let's head back to accident and emergency

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to find out how he's getting on.

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'Back in Manchester, four-year-old Didi is in hospital with

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'a large screw wedged up his nose.

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'He'd been playing with his friend

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'when they saw a shiny screw on the mat.

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'Didi loved the look of that screw but so did his friend.

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'They both wanted that screw

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'and it was at this point Didi came up with a great idea.

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'He picked the screw up and hid it up his nose.

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'Only it wouldn't come out again

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'and it's evaded all attempts to catch it.'

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'So now it's over to the surgical team to get that screw loose.

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'Didi's had a general anaesthetic to put him to sleep.

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'This means the surgical team can delve deeper into his nose

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'and pull the hiding screw out without him feeling a thing.

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'So here goes.

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'With Didi totally still, it's not long before the surgeon

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'catches up with that screw.

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'At last, it's out.

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-It's big.

-'Yep, it's a whopper.'

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How did he manage to get it up his nose?

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'Who knows? But a couple of hours later

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'and Didi has come around from his operation to the good news.'

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That was in my nose cos I was pushing it in.

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'Well hopefully nothing will be going up your nostrils

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'in the future.

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'And with his conk clear, he's off home.'

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'Bye.'

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'Still to come...

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'Xand's got a foot that needs freezing.

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'Evie's got a gash that needs gluing.'

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'And I've got wee with secret powers.'

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That really works well.

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'Now, did you know that the average eyebrow has 450 hairs?'

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'Wow, that's amazing. And so's this.

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'On an ordinary street.

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'In an ordinary house.

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'One man is getting ready for his day.

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'Nice towel.

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'Lovely.

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'He likes a blow dry, then?

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'Hang on a minute. Is he drying his face?'

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'Oh, yes. Check this out!

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'Meet Jesus Aceves. He has an amazing body.

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'Jesus has over 60,000 hairs on his face.

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'This is no more than the average man

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'but whereas we will have tiny, fine facial hairs,

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'incredibly Jesus' hairs are long and dark like the hair on his head.

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'So what makes his amazing body like this?

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'Well, Jesus has had his hairy face since birth

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'and it's down to a genetic condition called hypertrichosis.

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'Before we're born, we're all covered with a layer of fine hair

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'which normally disappears about a month before we burst out

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'but hypertrichosis means the hair continues to

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'grow in unexpected places.

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'His furry face keeps him toasty warm in winter and come summertime

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'he treats his luscious locks to a trim to keep himself cool.

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'Jesus is one of only 50 people in the world who have

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'super hairy faces.

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'Now that's amazing.'

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'Your body can need mending in all sorts of ways and

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'we're going to meet some special teams that are trained to fix you.'

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SHE LAUGHS

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'This is Rocco.

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'He's come to see a foot doctor today, and so have I.'

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Take a look at my feet.

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They look OK, don't they, in a sort of foot-ish way. But look closer.

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'Meet my verrucas.

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'We've actually become quite attached.'

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Verrucas are caused by a virus - the human papillomavirus.

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They're rough mounds of skin that grow on the bottom

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of your feet where it's nice and warm.

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'I've had these ones for a while.'

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But enough is enough.

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'This is Nutan Shah.

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'A podiatrist, or foot doctor, at the London Podiatry Centre.

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'She knows everything about verrucas.'

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Why do they stick around so long?

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They like warm, dark, moist places,

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so your foot is an ideal place for it to live in.

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Basically the verrucas are saying my foot's good?

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-It's like a five-star hotel.

-HE LAUGHS

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'Well it's time for these guests to check out.

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'First, Nutan has to cut off all the dead hard skin.'

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This bit doesn't hurt at all.

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It's slightly ticklish but it's actually quite pleasant.

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So long, verruca!

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'Now my foot's going to get frozen.

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'This is liquid nitrogen which helps kill off the virus.'

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Now it is quite painful. It stings.

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'Liquid nitrogen is extremely cold.

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'Minus 200 degrees centigrade, to be precise.

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'That's at least ten times colder than your freezer at home.

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'And with a few treatments, your verrucas are no more.

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'With the freezing over, Nutan puts silver nitrate on.

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'It stops any blistering and also helps kill the virus.'

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What we do is, we just rub it on to the area

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and eventually it will go black.

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'Like Rocco's. He's already had a few verruca treatments.'

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How do verrucas feel on your foot? Do you notice them?

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At first, when I used to step on the ground without

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any shoes, it really started hurting me.

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Cos that's what I noticed, with shoes on, it's not really a problem.

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'It's important to remember that this virus is contagious.

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'So don't touch it.

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'Don't pick it and make sure you don't walk around anywhere

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'barefoot, or you'll spread it.

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'Now, brace yourself, Rocco, here comes the liquid nitrogen.'

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HE GASPS

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'Yep, takes your breath away.'

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You've got a really good technique.

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-Like you're just laughing through it, right?

-Yeah.

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'So, freezing over, there's a coat of silver nitrate.

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'And we're both all done.'

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If you've got a verruca that won't go away, people like Nutan

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are here to help. But remember, lots of verrucas do go away on their own.

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It might just take a while.

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So, in the meantime, why not give it a name?

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Mine's called Dr Chris.

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Just don't tell him.

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When you get injured, your body is brilliant at mending itself.

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This next boy should know, he's always having accidents.

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# If there's a bone to break he'll break it

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# If there's a wound to graze, he'll graze it

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# If there's an ankle to sprain, he'll sprain it

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# He's the unluckiest kid. #

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'Look out for that squirrel.

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LOUD CRASH

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'When you break your arm, it's called a fracture.

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'And it gets put in plaster to keep it in place.

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'But underneath, the real fixing is done by you.'

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'Wow.'

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'Your broken bone leaks blood and it contains special building blocks,

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'including fibres from proteins called collagen and cartilage.

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'They build a temporary bridge called a callous

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'and it stays in place for about three weeks.

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'Then a specialist team called the osteoblasts move in.

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'These are cells that make tiny bits of bone that set like cement.'

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'After a few weeks, your bones have repaired themselves.

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'Your cast will be off and you're as good as new.

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'Just watch out for squirrels.'

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'Uh-oh. Oh, dear!'

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# He's the unluckiest kid. #

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Now sometimes on Operation Ouch what we really...

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What are you doing?

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-I'm holding it in.

-Why didn't you go before I started?

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-Because I need it for this week's Investigation Ouch.

-Oh.

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Now, I know what you're thinking.

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You should have flushed the toilet, Dr Chris.

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Well, you're wrong. I didn't use the toilet.

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But I am going to wash my hands.

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'I'm actually taking my wee to Bristol.'

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It's here somewhere. Can you get out the map?

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'Because apparently it contains hidden powers.'

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This is the Bristol Robotics Laboratory

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and some scientists here have decided that, rather than

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flushing their wee down the toilets, they're going to use it as a power

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source, and that's why I've brought mine all the way from London.

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I suppose I could've just gone when I got here.

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Come on, wee-wee.

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'We're off to meet Dr Ioannis Ieropoulous.

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'He's the brains behind pee power.'

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So, Ioannis, I've got something for you.

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-Oh, wow. Thank you very much, Chris.

-It's my pleasure.

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The first thing to say about being here is it really smells in here.

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Yes, it does.

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It's basically a bit like, imagine instead of leaving

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your classroom to go and pee, everyone just peed on the floor.

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That's a bit like what it smells like.

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But you're putting the wee here to slightly better use, aren't you?

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Yes. So we use urine as a fuel for electricity.

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'Yep, you heard right. They're turning wee into electricity.'

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So how do you do that?

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So we will take this urine

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and we will add it into microbial fuel cells which are something like

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batteries, only they have living micro-organisms inside, living bugs.

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'The bugs living in the microbial fuel cells, or batteries,

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'feed on the sugars and proteins in urine, breaking it down.

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'And this process creates electricity.

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'In fact, this four litres of wee could create enough power for

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'20 minutes of talk time on a mobile phone,

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'but that's not all it can do.

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'Time to see my wee in action.'

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So this is basically a battery, is that right?

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-Yes, a very complicated one.

-And what do you use it to power?

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At the moment, we use it to power a remote controlled car.

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-A remote controlled car?

-Yeah.

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That's quite cool, I love remote controlled cars.

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'To get the car moving, we first need to top up the battery.'

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So each one of these things that I'm putting the urine into

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is a microbial fuel cell and there are bacteria in there

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that are going to eat the sugars and proteins in the urine

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and turn them into electricity which is then going to charge this car.

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-HE LAUGHS

-That really works well.

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'At the moment, it takes a very large battery to power a

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'very little car but hopefully, it won't be long before the batteries

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'get smaller and the things they can power get bigger.'

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Ioannis, so that is amazing. But what's the future?

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Well, the future is about developing the technologies that can be

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implemented into developing world countries and provide electricity.

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It's basically one wonderful way of turning waste into something useful.

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'So hopefully one day urine will create power for people in

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'developing countries to light their homes and cook their food with.'

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Obviously this doesn't mean that you can go and pour urine into all

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the electronic kit in your house and expect it to work.

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That would be both incredibly dangerous and very, very smelly.

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But what we have seen is that scientists have invented

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a way of producing power from urine.

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Now if they can only invent a way of getting rid of the smell.

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Our next patient was expecting a normal day.

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But she's ended up in accident and emergency.

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Let's see her get fixed.

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'In Sheffield accident and emergency, eight-year-old Evie has

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'arrived with her mum and a rather nasty looking cut to her chin.

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'Oh, catch that drip.'

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It stings a lot.

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'I bet it does. What on earth happened?

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'She's in her wellies, is that a clue? Let's find out.'

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'Evie lives on a farm.

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'On a farm? What animals does she have?'

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'She's got a pet donkey. Two sheep. Five horses.

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'Three cats and two dogs.

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'Awesome. So what happened to her chin?'

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'Keep quiet and I'll tell you.

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'It was snowing.

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'Whoa, indeed it was.'

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'Evie decided to go sledging.

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'She was bombing down a hill.

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'She's going very fast.'

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'Yes. And then a huge gust of wind blew her sledge away.'

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'Oh, no!'

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'She landed face first and her chin scraped along the snow

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'and gravel beneath until she stopped.'

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'Ouch!'

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The snow wasn't as thick as I thought it was.

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'Never mind, here's Dr Suzanne Baron to take a look at that chin.'

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Quite a gash this, actually.

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-'I'll say.

-Say what?

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'That it's quite a gash, duh!'

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She's got a medium-sized cut under her chin which will definitely

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need some cleaning and bringing the edges back together again.

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'So, first the mission is to give Evie's wound a good clean

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'and get all the gravel out that they can see.

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'The skin on our chin has five layers for a piece of grit

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'to get lost in.

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'The combination of skin, fat, fibrous tissue

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'and blood cells surrounds our skull.

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'When these layers are broken, dangerous infection can occur.

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'So it's important that we get that bit of grit out of Evie's chin

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'and close up the hole.

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'There's one stubborn bit of grit that just won't budge.

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'Step up Nurse Susan Musson, grit extractor extraordinaire.

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'If you're squeamish, look away now

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'because to get a grip on that gravel she's using a needle.

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I use just the very end of the needle,

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just to keep flicking it out.

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Eventually I got to the end of it and got it all out.

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Yeah, it's come out.

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'Well done, Susan.

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'With the grit gone, steri-strips and glue hold the cut together

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'until it heals.

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That's all done. Does that feel all right? Well done.

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That was very brave.

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'And will brave Evie keep on sledging?'

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Yeah. I'll probably go on the deeper snow in the deeper fields now.

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'Good plan, Evie. You've got true grit.'

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'Very funny, Chris.

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'Bye.'

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'Next time, I'm on an emergency mission.'

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There isn't any time to lose.

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We've got to get the blood where it's needed as quickly as possible.

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'This guy reveals an amazing body skill.

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'And find out what happens when you puke.'

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THEY BOTH GROAN

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-We'll see you next time for more...

-Operation Ouch.

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