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Inside Health: Drinking urine, diclofenac, pigeon fancier's lung, hospital food

19/02/2013

Drinking urine, diclofenac, pigeon fancier's lung, hospital food

BBC Radio 4 - Inside Health, Drinking urine, diclofenac, pigeon fancier's lung, hospital food

Can drinking urine save your life? Heart risks of diclofenac and hospital food as medicine

Can drinking urine help you survive? The risk of heart attacks from the anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac, hospital food as medicine, and pigeon fancier's lung. With Mark Porter.

Is it safe to drink urine, or even sea water in a survival situation? Mark Porter examines calls to withdraw one of the most widely used anti inflammatory drugs, diclofenac, because it increases the risk of heart attacks. And what kinds of health problems can result from living with a parrot, cockatiel or a loft full of pigeons? As guidelines to improve hospital meals are introduced, how will the idea of food as medicine improve patients' experience?

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