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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

to wonder why anyone lets their kid appear on Embarrassing bodies.

19 replies

Tokyotwist · 08/10/2010 21:11

Don't get me wrong I think the programme is a good idea for awareness, but I just wouldn't let my child go on there.

Apart from possibly being bullied by their friends, it all seems somewhat exploitive.

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rpickett · 08/10/2010 21:14

YABU, the doctors on the show have great experience and if the cant solve a problem they set up appointments with specialists which on the NHS could take months.

deaddei · 08/10/2010 21:14

YANBU.
I caught the man last week who hadn't wiped his bottom properly, and I was open mouthed.
How can he look people in the eye when everyone's seen his shitty arse?

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Tokyotwist · 08/10/2010 21:18

Rpickett, not suggesting the Drs are not any good, I'm suggesting there's something wrong with letting your child share what is an embarrassing illness on national TV.

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MrsMoosickle · 08/10/2010 21:23

Toktotwist, IKWYM. That wee girl with the louse infestation....I was upset that firstly she had nits, secondly it was such a badly managed situation and thirdly her idiotic mother had dragged her to a TV GP as oposed to a regular GP!
YANBU

Sweetcheesus · 08/10/2010 21:27

YANBU. I also get pissed off that many of the treatments they offer aren't available to most people anyway.
Good for the people who have appeared on the programme and get their problem sorted, bad for those watching with the same thing, but actually won't be offered those treatments.

Sorry, rant over :)

Indith · 08/10/2010 21:30

I have wondered this too but a little while ago there was a thread about the kids series and a mother was on MN and talked about her dd who appeared in the series. She had taken her to normal GPs and had never got anywhere, by appearing on the series she got the treatment that was needed. I'd do that for my kids if I had to.

muggglewump · 08/10/2010 21:31

YANBU.
The headlice one had me horrified.
I understand I'm lucky that headlice doesn't seem to be prevalent here, but to let it go the way that woman did?

Mind you, it's edited for TV and we must remember that.

Still, when I was getting recurrent bartholins cysts I'd not have gone on TV.
I was embarrassed enough at the GP!
(I still remember the first one, it was huge and the Doctor said to the nurse, 'could you hold the vulval lips out of the way', before he lanced it)

Not something I had ever wanted to hear, never mind on TV!

It wasn't one of my best days.

BibiBelle · 08/10/2010 21:34

oh christ mugggle

I can't stop staring at the Dr's hair do which is embarrassing enough in itself

and now I'm staring down the eye of a penis

muggglewump · 08/10/2010 21:37

He had hair implants.
He seems to think he is some blonde boyband guy in the 80's.

BibiBelle · 08/10/2010 21:39

aah now I understand

SpringHeeledJack · 08/10/2010 21:40

people are obsessed with being On Tv

especially kids. My 13 yo son agreed to be filmed at Woodcraft Folk (apparently woodies is so deeply uncool that he's never told his friends that he goes) this week- actually making jewellery

when I asked him why he agreed to it he said "I just really want to be on telly"

...if he had threadworms he'd probably be straight on to Channel 4

MrsMoosickle · 08/10/2010 21:41

Oh Muggle, I've just had to google bartholins cysts That's a nightmare scenario.

Agree with others on Doc's hair.

muggglewump · 08/10/2010 21:58

Aye, if you want something wrong with you () bartholins cysts are not it.

Guacamole · 08/10/2010 22:16

Didn't one Mumsnetter recently do this after many years of visiting GPs, Speech Therapists etc... It turned out brilliantly for her, they discovered her DD had tongue tie I think (resulting in a chronic dribbling problem)... I might be remembering incorrectly? I'm sure they'd tried all other routes... And it was Embarrassing Bodies that fixed it!

Lionstar · 08/10/2010 22:19

Theres was the one about the poor wee thing that had TERRIBLE verrucas though, which turned out to be some pretty serious auto-immune thing. She had been fobbed off by all the docs until she got on Embarrasing Bodies. They did a special programme about her. So that was a good thing.

roadkillbunny · 08/10/2010 22:30

My dd appeared on Embarrassing bodies kids (I think it is possible Indith is talking about me).
I can't speak for other parents but for us it was desperation to get my dd help that made us go on, I had spent years trying to get help from the GP and speech therapists only to be fobbed off or given 'advice' that was about as useful as a chocolate tea pot, I spent weeks thinking about it after I first heard that they were looking for children and in the end I applied simply so I could tell myself I had tried everything, never expected their help, it was a lovely yet nerve racking surprise when they said they wanted to help dd. Has dd had more on an intimate problem or one that could present opportunities for bullying and if she had been older then our decision would have been much harder and we may have chosen not to go down that road as it was the good out weighed the bad and we are now so glad we did as it turned out dd had many more problems then we could have known and without the show I really don't like to think the impact that her not being treated would have had on her, even with the treatment she still has problems that will take a long time and allot of hard work to sort out.
I do agree that treatments available through the show are often either not available on the NHS or take a huge amount of fight to get, in dd's case even if we had managed to get the health professionals involved with dd to listen to our concerns the likelihood is that we would have struggled to get her the surgery on the NHS and even if we got the NHS to do the surgery we would probably still be waiting for it now a year on and that is both sad and worrying, without surgery dd's problems would only have deepened and cost both the NHS and the education system a hell of allot more money then the cost of the surgery, if her issues had been picked up on when the should have it is likely that she would now not have any SEN at all so in that respect education is important and also knowing you are not alone, other children and parents are going through similar things is important to help you get through and know what you need to be pushing for, we walked in with something that all believed to be a minor problem that medication would probably be all that was required and she ended up needing surgery and on going support educationally, so yes, YABU, a TV show can never show you everything and editing has to happen, there must be hours and hours of film of dd but then had to fit as much as they could in about 20 minutes of screen time, a 10 minute web piece and less then 5 minutes of new material in the back to the clinic show.

MoralDefective · 08/10/2010 22:39

Too hard to read ....Roadkill....was your's the little girl who had the dribbling problem....she was a love....but i can see other people's misgivings....hope she's ok now....

MoralDefective · 08/10/2010 22:41

Nits.....SORT IT OUT YOURSELF......

roadkillbunny · 08/10/2010 23:04

Sorry if my post was hard to read, I am tired and trying to get used to this silly mini laptop after my nice big one broke!
Yes, my dd had a dribbling problem, she is doing well now, still problems but making progress thanks to knowing why she has the problems she has and her excellent school.
I see the misgivings of others to, some even with my 'insider knowledge' of how it works I just don't understand, I have been pleasantly surprised that I have yet to receive any negative feedback, something they prime all that take part for.

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