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Family Health by Mini First Aid
Welcome to The Family Health podcast with Mini First Aid. Each week, our founder Kate will be talking with a guest leading expert about the family health issues that matter to you.
Everything you ever needed to know about conditions and healthcare topics that affect your family. If you are looking for information, advice, tips and reassurance about family health, you’ll find it all in these super helpful, honest conversations.
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Episodes
32 episodes
Episode 31: Anaemia & Mastitis
In this episode, Kate chats with Cathy Tabner, Parent Education Midwife at My Expert Midwife who has helped and advised hundreds of women about breastfeeding and knows all there is to know about anaemia and mastitis. If yo...
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Episode 30: Weaning & Nutrition
Weaning is a huge milestone for babies as they move from a liquid, milk diet to eating solid foods. We know that breast and formula milk contain everything baby needs to grow and thrive, but when that milk consumption drops and food takes over,...
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Episode 30
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Episode 29: Dementia
In today's Family Health Podcast episode, we delve into the complex landscape of dementia, a condition that not only affects individuals directly but also ripples through the lives of their loved ones. We chat w...
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Episode 28: Eating Disorders
In today’s digital society, children are bombarded with images of supposed perfection. According to recent statistics from the NHS, the struggle with body image and food among young people has surged alarmingly in recent years, with children...
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Episode 27: Gestational Diabetes
Our Dragons’ Den mentor Sara Davies MBE had gestational diabetes in both of her pregnancies and talks to us today about the guilt she felt when first diagnosed and what she has since learned about this condition that affects around 5% of pre...
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Episode 27
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Episode 26: Autism
In the UK, approximately 1 in every 100 children is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This number is probably lower than the reality as many families don’t want or think they need an official diagnosis. Behind these numbers lie ...
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Episode 26
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Episode 25: Sports Nutrition in Teens and Pre-teens
If your child takes part in any kind of sport or leisure activity, you will know how much of their time outside of school is dedicated to these activities and how this impacts their diet, from the lack of time to sit and eat proper meals to ...
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Episode 25
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Episode 24: Car Seat Safety
What are the laws around baby & child car seats? When should you switch to a forward-facing seat? When can your child sit up front with you? We might think we know the answers to these questions but this Family Hea...
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Episode 24
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Episode 23: Asthma
Having asthma may once have been seen as a weakness or something to be pitied for, but is this still the case? What do we now know about the causes and treatment of asthma? Is there still some level of embarrassment for children living with ...
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Episode 23
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Episode 22: Skin Cancer
In 2019 Adele Hughes world was turned upside down when she received a melanoma diagnosis. Telling her children and her parents that she had skin cancer was just the start of her journey, which continued with immunotherapy treatment and becom...
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Episode 22
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Episode 21: Parental Anxiety
Is it normal to suffer with anxiety when you become a parent? Why do we feel anxious as our children reach particular milestones? What is ‘normal’ anxiety and when should we worry that it has become some...
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Episode 21
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Episode 20: Children’s Body Image
Show Notes: A 2015 survey showed that nearly a quarter of childcare professionals have seen signs that children aged between 3 and 5 years old, in their care, are unhappy with their appearance or bodies. This...
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Episode 19: Understanding Children’s Operations
Show Notes: If your child has to have an operation in hospital, it’s likely that they will be anaesthetised pre-surgery, which can be a pretty scary experience for both them and for you as a parent or carer.<...
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Episode 18: Understanding Endometriosis
Episode 18: Understanding EndometriosisShow Notes: Around 1.5 million women in the UK are currently living with Endometriosis, a condition that can be incredibly debilitati...
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Episode 17: Managing Overwhelm
Episode 17: Managing OverwhelmShow Notes: Parents - particularly mums - this episode of the Family Health Podcast will really strike a chord. Today we chat with Kate, an occupational ...
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Episode 17
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Episode 16: Understanding Children’s Burns
Episode 16: Understanding Children’s BurnsShow Notes: At just 15-months old, Michelle’s son Charlie pulled a pan of boiling water over himself at their family home and sustained burns...
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Episode 16
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Episode 15: Pelvic Floor Health
“Women are literally standing on the sidelines of their own lives” Dragging. Bulging. Heaviness. Sciatica. Groin pain. Hip pain. Trouble going to the toilet, as well as trouble holding it in. All these are si...
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Episode 15
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Episode 14: Understanding Sepsis
Show Notes:Trigger warning: this week’s podcast discusses the death of a child. We talk about sepsis a lot at Mini First Aid and this week’s episode demonstrates exactly why we feel this...
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Episode 14
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Episode 13: Understanding Oral & Dental Health
Show Notes:“It is not uncommon for under 5’s to have their full set of teeth removed”. This is the unbelievable truth we hear in this week’s podcast from Marisa Russell, Mini First Aid trainer and dental nurse. ...
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Episode 12: Understanding Diabetes
You have probably heard of Diabetes and that there are different forms of this condition such as Type 1 and Type 2 among others, but do you understand the differences and know what signs to look out for? Are you confident that you would know...
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Episode 12
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Episode 11: Button Battery Danger
In this episode, Kate chats with Katrina Phillips, CEO of the Child Accident Prevention Trust, and Hollie Phillips (no relation!) who is Mum to Ralphie, a healthy, happy toddler who swallowed a button battery on his first birthday. Hear the ...
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Episode 11
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Episode 10: Understanding Cardiomyopathy
In the last episode of our Savlon Scar Prevention Gel sponsored series, in conversation with writer Jacky Burton, Kate discusses the devastating death of her brother from cardiomyopathy when he was just 22. In this emotional podcast, find out h...
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Episode 10
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Episode 9: Black Maternal Health - Angie’s Story
In this episode, sponsored by Savlon Scar Prevention Gel, Kate talks to Nurse Angie Jay. Angie is about to give birth to twins, and as a black woman she is passionate about shining a light on the stark difference in pregnancy related deaths bet...
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Episode 9
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33:45
Episode 8: What Really Happens When You Visit A&E
In this episode, sponsored by Savlon Scar Prevention Gel, Kate talks to Mini First Aid trainer Kellie Green about her experience working as a paediatric nurse in A&E. Kellie shares her invaluable knowledge of what families can expect when t...
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Episode 8
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Episode 7: Understanding Sensitive Skin
In this episode, sponsored by Savlon Scar Prevention Gel, Kate talks to Joanna Jensen from baby and child personal care brand Childs Farm. You’ll probably have a bottle of their baby wash by your bath and you might even sneakily use their condi...
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