‘If I’d have gone to university that day, I wouldn’t be alive’
20th August 2018
A student has told how she developed life-threatening sepsis on the day she was supposed to be leaving home to start university. Olivia Young, 19, was rushed to Hull Royal Infirmary after experiencing a severe headache, fainting, vomiting and agonising pain in her stomach. However, staff realised she had sepsis, the life-threatening condition featured in Coronation Street after character Jack Webster, played by Kyran Bowes, contracted the illness and had to have his foot amputated … Read More
Time to get your flu vaccine to protect you and your baby
17th August 2018
Pregnant women can reduce their risk of miscarriage, premature birth, low birth weight and stillbirth by taking up the offer of vital protection against flu from next month. Ten midwives at Hull Women and Children’s Hospital have received specialist training to administer the flu vaccine to women attending antenatal appointments, admitted to the wards for monitoring or visiting the HEY Baby Carousel event on the last Wednesday of the month. With around 5,500 babies born … Read More
‘Cheaper than the bus and quicker than walking’
15th August 2018
Driving round the country as a medical rep, Chris Jarratt piled on the pounds as he grabbed food on the go between client appointments. By the time he’d decided to return to clinical practice as a physiotherapist at Castle Hill Hospital, he weighed 16 stone. “I bought myself a cheap bike and thought it would be quicker than walking and cheaper than the bus so off I went,” he said. “It was two and a … Read More
‘Do it once and you’ll want to keep doing it’
15th August 2018
She was used to cycling along Cornwall’s quieter, winding roads and thought cycling to work from Barton to Hull would be an ordeal. But cycling over the Humber Bridge has become a highlight of her route when senior matron Trish Prady cycles to and from work at Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital twice a week. Taking around 40 minutes each way, Trish, who heads a team of specialist nurses and works in gastroenterology, … Read More
Hull physiotherapists help you get on your bike
15th August 2018
It will help you get into shape, it won’t wreck your joints and your purse or wallet will get a welcome boost. Around 7.6m people jump on their bikes at least once a month and with high-profile events like May’s Tour De Yorkshire and Welshman Geraint Thomas winning this year’s Tour De France, cycling has never been more popular. But you don’t have to wear head-to-toe lycra to get wheely fit. Today, to mark National … Read More