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3:06program as well. Oh, it's six to 103103. Later on today, Analyst to Sell and Nutrition Therapist will be joining us answering your nutritional questions. So you can get those into us throughout the morning. But also looking for your thoughts about tomorrow's budget of fees like we've been talking about this budget from months and months and months. It's been so much talk about it. And here we are on the eve of a budget day. Needless to say, if you're going through any of the papers today either physically having bought a newspaper, are you looking at any of the e-papers online? Lots and lots of reports of what may or may not be in tomorrow's budget. Yes, speeches now. It does appear that the coalition party leaders had a meeting with the public expenditure minister, Jack Chambers. That was last night. And it's been speculated that they were putting the final touches to budget 2027. And it's going to focus cost of living supports, although it will stop short of bringing

4:14back universal energy credits. Remember when we all got this money from taking from our electricity bills and everyone across the board, God, of course, when they first gave out the electricity credits, they wanted to get it out as quickly as possible. So they said at the time the easiest way was the universal energy credits. If you had electricity connected to your house, then you were entitled to the various credits that they gave out the first time. But of course, there was one major hole in that was people who had holiday homes who don't use a lot of electricity. They also got the credits. People whose houses maybe were locked up for whatever reason. Maybe somebody was going into a nursing home for an extended period of time. Nobody living in the house. That house also got the energy credits. So they did change that around slightly the second time that they gave out the energy credits. So that we will be back looking at more energy credits because everyone will tell you that your electricity bill is so much higher than what it was.

5:18Certainly before Russia's invasion on Ukraine and then what is going on in it with Israel, Palestine, the Middle East, Trump getting involved, all of that. That's putting additional pressure on the cost of petrol and diesel. And obviously the knock on then is the cost of home heating oil and gas and everybody is paying more. So there was a hope that there will be a university credit. Now at this stage it is looking unlikely, but that's not to say that there won't be a little bit of a surprise tomorrow. We'll wait and see now what they are what we are expected to hear tomorrow. There definitely is going to be help with child care fees. It'll be one of the most significant announcements were told to be unveiled. Along with changes to personal income taxes. Now the changes to income tax. Remember last year's budget, no change to income tax and there was a huge furor from workers who felt that they would be better off not going to work.

6:20Because it was the people who didn't go to work, got a bit of a helping hand last year. And I don't know how many times we had a comment into this program when people saying, I'm going to work and I got nothing out of this budget. So it looks like they've learned the lesson there and they're saying now whatever changes to personal income taxes, it'll work out at around 400 euro a year for the average worker. So it'll be a little bit more for someone. It'll be a little bit less for others. Now the budget is going to be unveiled by the finance minister Simon Harris. He'll kick off proceedings and then he'll be followed by speech number two, which will be the public expenditure minister Jack Chambers. And it's about a lunch time tomorrow. We'll get the exact time of it. Because it's one of those ones that people either sit down and watch it on TV or you can access it online as well. But it's one of those ones that people just run it. It almost becomes like a tick tick box exercise. Yeah, we knew about that. Yeah, we knew about that. Yeah, we knew about that. Oh, no, we didn't know about that.

7:20But how many of the old knows it's only time will tell. Now there is an extra 1.5 billion is going to be spent on tax measures and 7 billion in spending measures. There is a nervousness in the government that the cost of living pressures on household means that the budget that's announced tomorrow is going to fall short of the public's expectations. Because everyone is feeling the pinch. Everyone is finding it hard to put fuel into the car to heat the homes. And we've been sort of lucky in that certainly in our house we haven't had the heating on. Yes, it's been mild enough. But we know we're not going to get away with that for very much longer. So people know it's going to be an expensive winter. People are finding a difficulty even put food on the table. So there's a lot of and it's probably why when I said we seem to be talking about this budget for quite some time. And I think that probably is one of the reasons because whenever people have been complaining

8:24about the cost of living, et cetera, we're constantly hearing about, let's see what happens in the budget, let's see what comes up in the budget. So I think that's why there's been so much expectation and anticipation around tomorrow. So it is very much a way to see but will people be disappointed only time will tell. Now the negotiation process has exposed tensions between the coalition partners. You've got Jack Chambers insisting that they must stick to spending increases. He's saying no more than 6%. That is it. That's the line in the sand. And that obviously has left many of the ministers at the various government departments heading out of Jack Chambers office. I imagine with their tail between their legs because they have not been able to get what they hoped for. And they haven't been able to push it over the line, but Jack Chambers has taken to these guns no more than 6%.

9:25One source is saying everything has been tight in the talks this time round. There's absolutely no loose change anywhere. Now housing, an issue that caused public disagreement between Finafall and Fina Gale during the course of the negotiations, it seems even now there are more issues to be ironed out in advance of the budget tomorrow. But what has been speculated, it was expected that the rent tax credit that will go up from a thousand that started out at 500 and then they put up to a thousand last year. They're going to put another 200 on that. So if you are renting, you'll get 1,200 in a rent tax credit. Now I know some people will say, sure, in two thousand a month, you can pay up to two thousand a month on rent, sure, 1,200 is even a month rent, but I suppose. So what the others will say, it is better than adding nothing and seemingly the housing

10:27minister, James Brown, has been pushing that for months and it looks like he's lucky that he has gotten it over the line. The biggest portion of funding for housing obviously we're told is going to go into the delivery of social housing. The minister has also sought funding for a homeless action plan. I think nobody will object to that. Also expected there'll be a substantial increase for the work of the RTB, the residential agency abort to help them double down on rogue landlords, what at the same time trying to protect as many rents as possible and the residential agency board have done a great job in protecting people from losing, from being evicted from their homes because landlords have given them their eviction notice. It wasn't correct the way they did it. So the RTB have been great at helping, so it looks like they're going to get extra resources

11:30I imagine allowing them to hire more people to help. Now the rent room tax relief, this is where you can rent out a room in your house if you have a spare bedroom and you think that bedroom I wouldn't mind having somebody staying in there at night, something would think it's great because it's certainly if you're living on your own and you get in a nice person renting, it can be company as well. But at the same time it can be income coming into the house and you can get tax relief of up to 14,000 so you can rent out your spare room, you can get 14,000 euro a year in rent. So over a thousand euro a month in rent and you don't have to pay a penny worth of tax. Now I know there is one glaring problem with that particular scheme and I wonder what they did with it at tomorrow or not. If you go one cent over the 14,000 then you have to pay tax on the whole thing which never has made any sense to me. Anyway, they're talking about increasing that from 14,000 euro a year to 16,000 euro and

12:34it's hoped the measure would free up more accommodation, particularly more accommodation for students. Again, they do things like that, they tweak around with different schemes and it's really only time we'll tell. We've got to wait for them all to be bedded in, to be in place and then wait and see if they work or not. Now on energy, which a lot of people will be waiting to hear what they're going to say on energy, the party leaders have agreed measures that result in cuts of between 40 to 50 euro if you're filling up a 900 liter tank of home heating oil. Now as well as deferring carbon tax increases which you do to come into effect this month October, the budget will announce a cut in the carbon tax on caracene and they're going to reduce it to 48 euro a ton. Now so that will help people who need caracene, not much.

13:35I know people are going to say 40, 50 euro but I still go back to it's better than nothing and then I'm waiting for people to say that's not great for the people who heat their house with oil, water, but also with gas. It seems there'll also be measures where we put in place to help the householders who do run their house and heat their houses through a gas. Exise cuts on petrol and diesel, they're going to be extended. Well, driving into work this morning and looking again at the cost of diesel and petrol, diesel now 214 seems to be the average figure nearly every petrol station. I passed petrol, seems to be it over the two euro mark now, two or one. So there is no way that they could put back on the excise cuts that they gave early run in the year. So they're going to be extended and what they're expected to announce tomorrow is that they're not going to mention them and they're not going to look at them until at least the end of February.

14:36But that does come with a cost, a cost the ex-checker about a hundred million a month. So even though they are still taking in a lot of money because every time petrol and diesel goes up, they've asked on the different excises, it goes up on it. So they do take in a lot of money, but they're still losing, they're losing about a million a month. Now there, there'll be a five euro a week added to the fuel allowance. And that is mainly, mainly available obviously by pensioners and people on certain qualifying welfare payments. That's expected to go up by a five euro. It's currently 38 euro a week started last week for this season. So an extra five euro. I'm assuming it'll be for next winter, but wait and see. Needless to have agreed that the weekly pension and the other core welfare rates. Now we spoke about these during the week. It's now looking like the increase is going to be 10 euro a week.

15:41There were fears and we mentioned it that there was a proposal of seven euro 50, that that's what the increase would be. But the fear was that that would cause public anger that could overshadow all the other aspects of the budget. And it would be one of those things that you'd forget about all the goodness in the budget. And the only thing you would hear about would be pensioners only got seven euro 50. So it looks like it's a tenor. It's where it's going to sit at. And if that is true and when it comes in, it means the pension will increase to 300 and nine euro and 30 cent a week from next year. Whenever it comes in, they might bring it in at the start of January. They had for a number of years waited until kind of around same heart to the stay. But the last couple of years, I think it came in in January. Anyway, we'll wait and see what we can find out about that. Deliving alone allowance again, a group of people who often find it very, very difficult to live on one income. Their allowance is going to rise.

16:42It's currently 22 euro a week. It's expected that it's going to go up to 29 euro. And if it does, that is the biggest ever increase in the living alone allowance. Child benefit for those people out there with children hoping that their monthly payment will be increased. It's looking like there will be no changes at all to child benefits, no increases there. Transport Minister Darryl Brian, he's done well. He's secured a funding package that's going to support 140 new public transport services. It will include new and more frequent routes and seamless right across the country because every county is going to benefit. It's expected there will be a 550 euro monthly cap on child care fees. And that's going to apply to children up to senior infants. So we're talking about children up to the age of about seven. It is the biggest cost pressure where that's where the biggest cost pressures are.

17:43And the cap will come into effect. They'll give you a year to wait. It doesn't come in until September of 2027 and coalition sources describe it as a significant move. Because remember, this is the government who as part of the program for government, when they went into government together, they made this commitment that they were going to reduce child care fees down to 200 euro a month. Now they weren't going to do it in the first year. They were going to do it over the lifetime of their government. So they really do need to get moving because they're about halfway there at this stage. So it's expected that tomorrow it will be announced to 550 a month for children up to the age of seven. As I say, and that would be from 2027. So your thoughts on what you are looking out for, hoping for any of that that's been speculated about which of those are the good, the bad and the ugly. Let us know. 0818103103.

18:44Pat from boy was on to the program. He says about the predictions for the budget. It drives him absolutely crazy. Pat says, why can't we just wait for tomorrow to hear what the announcement will be? And he says the end of the day, the predictions are just guesswork, which are rarely correct. I'll stop you. I'd really correct. They're all was correct. I think they deliberately do this sort of kite flying. Like for example, last week when we spoke about the seven euro 50. And I remember saying when we talk about this and there's a lot of negativity around it, the government are listening, the ministers are listening, the department official, them is listening. And they go back and say we can't possibly pass that will be annihilated by the general public. So they up to 10 euro. So there is a lot of kite flying done just almost to test the waters. So you're wrong to say that they are rarely correct. They're not. They're always spot on. It's just with little tweaks and little extras. But this time round, there doesn't seem to be as many leaks. Anyway, Pat from boy says the lead up to the budget is these least favorite time to follow the news

19:48because of all of these so called leaks. And then James from Valley Hay was on when I mentioned about the rental room scheme. At the moment, you can earn 14,000 euro a year and not pay anything in tax. It's now speculated it'll go to 16,000 after the budget. James and Valley Hay said if he decides to rent out a room in his house, would his entitlement, would he lose his fuel allowance? And the answer is no, because you can earn up to 14,000 euro per year from renting out a room and you don't lose the fuel allowance. I remember a number of people raising that question when that scheme first came in. So and I'm assuming if they're up to 16,000, that figure will go up to 16,000 as well. So the answer is no James, you can red tell the room and you stay high onto your fuel allowance. Oh, 818, 103, 103. We've got Sean taking your call.

20:52Dominions talk to me. Court today on C1 and 3. Recently, the Department of Children launched a major nationwide public awareness campaign to encourage former residents of mother and baby and county home institutions to apply for the government's payment scheme. Now, by the Department to report the recent 360% surge in weekly applications following the campaign, major concerns remain over the total number of people reaching out. The exclusion sort of already been built into the scheme and also how survivors living abroad are being supported. Joining me on the line this morning is Patricia Carey. Patricia is the special advocate for survivors and it's always a pleasure to speak with her. Good morning, Patricia. You're welcome to the program. Good morning and thank you so much for having me on this morning. Now, the Department of Children recently highlighted this 360% increase in the weekly applications following their 12 week public awareness campaign. From your perspective as special

21:55advocate, does this recent surge show the campaign is working? Are there still falling short of where it needs to be at this stage? Well, I suppose and I don't want to bombard your listeners with statistics. This is a five year redress scheme or a payment scheme as the department calls it and unfortunately at this point in the five years we've only had 23% circa 23% of applicants out of a current eligible 34,000 so that's about seven and a half thousand people have made an application and I think from my experience with other redress schemes we really should be up around the 50 60% at this stage. So I think you know, although I absolutely welcome this new advertising campaign and I think it's much needed and it needs to continue both in Ireland and abroad. I think we're going to need a consistent and an ongoing campaign to reach people. Unfortunately, there's lots of people who aren't eligible and that is causing some upset. My office receives phone calls all the time saying, oh, does this new advertisement campaign mean

23:00that I'm now eligible? So children who spent less than six months in an institution? I think, you know, I've experienced of other redress schemes where years after this game closed, somebody hears about it and unfortunately at the time they didn't know about it. Too late and very upsetting for people. So I think, you know, as they say, lots done but more needed. Okay, but why? Why? Why do you think so many survivors have hesitation or have struggled to engage with the scheme up to this point? Well, there's a number of reasons. I mean, I think, you know, we have to acknowledge that there may be shame for some people. There may be secrecy. Maybe some people haven't told their family members that they were in a mother and baby institution. So I think that is one part. But I also think that digital poverty and not having access to computers. So, you know, over 50% of people applying are applying by post. So we need to have those hard copy application readily available and people are not used to portals and logging on. But I also think that,

24:03you know, other redress schemes for some survivors were traumatizing. Now it's important to say, for this redress scheme, people don't have to recount what happened to them in the institution. This scheme is only based on the time people spent. So the payment is based on the length of time they were there, not what happened to them. Some people feel there should be a count taken off the harm that they experienced or, you know, the brutality in some instances that women and children experienced. So I would encourage anyone who's eligible to sign up. But I think we need to have a national conversation about this to say, as the T-shirt said in his apology, the shame is not the people who are in those institutions to carry. The shame is all of Ireland's shame that this happened. And really for people to be encouraged by their friends or family by people they work with wherever they are, that this is a positive thing that people should receive redress for what happened to them. But I am very concerned that of the 34,000 people who are currently eligible. We've had about 7,700 people make an application. And I know that, you know, government departments

25:07will say, oh, there'll be a surge towards the end. But we're 31 months into a 60-month scheme. So I can't really see. It's very low numbers. Yeah, it's very low numbers. Yeah. And I know and you've mentioned it there in the Department of Stress that the applicants, you know, don't need exact dates. They don't have to have any institutional records or give details accounts of their experience to apply. But I wonder sometimes, Patricia, is that message actually getting through to people? It is. And it's a mixed message. Because again, unfortunately, I've spoken to people who wear 175 days or 178 days in the institution. And they're excluded because they weren't there for the requisite 180 days. So I think it's quite a nuanced message that on the one hand we're saying, please come forward and apply. But on the other hand, part of my role is to say all of the exclusions are causing people. Some people say to me, I feel guilty. I am eligible, but I don't want to apply because so many people are not eligible. And that's a really strong message that's coming forward.

26:11Places like Temple Hills, Stamallon, West Bank, Orphanage, these places where there were vast numbers of children who were then adopted or separated from their parents are fully excluded. And any child who spent less than six months in an institution is excluded. So I suppose the government has a very nuanced message to give. On the one hand, please come forward. But on the other hand, there are many people who can't come forward. Okay. And given the significant underspent, I mean, they've allocated 800 million euro of a budget. Do you think now is the time to look at it again and expand the eligibility criteria? Oh, absolutely. And I've been saying that from day one. I mean, there's a cohort of people who've never been excluded and their children who were boarded out from multiple institutions to work on farms and in houses. I think it should be extended to include anyone who spent, you know, a day in an institution to acknowledge that they were there. And I also think to include the excluded institutions. So there's a myriad of exclusions, including one that just frankly is bizarre that if a child was in hospital for a period of time,

27:17and then went back to the institution or went to another institution. So it's quite a complex scheme to navigate. And again, as I say, things like digital poverty, things like, you know, there isn't a free phone number for people outside Ireland. There is for people inside Ireland. I speak to people in the United Kingdom and abroad who say, well, it's going to cost me $100 to post my documentation to the scheme. So nobody should have to have a cost associated with applying for this payment redress scheme. So I think there are a number of things that the department is doing, but I think there's a lot more they could do. Yeah, because I was just going to get to that, the people who are living outside. I mean, there would be a number living in the UK. I mean, the department of foreign affairs embassies, consulates, would they all have a role to play in pay overseas? They do. Absolutely. Patricia, they do. And they have, and I've met many of the heads of missions and I do visit the UK. And I think, you know, they are doing their best, but

28:18this is, I mean, I suppose it's an area where you want to reach people who maybe have hidden themselves who maybe don't know about it. So getting to the places where Irish people gather abroad, be it in, you know, Irish centers through the embassy network in churches and doctor surgeries. You know, I've said that there should be leaflets in every GP surgery, both in Ireland and abroad. Everyone unfortunately has to visit the doctorate some state. So we need to, we need to get to where people are not that they're going to log on to a website. Not everyone is digitally literate. So I think there are clever and there are creative ways that we can do this. Men's Sheds, women's Sheds, all of those places where people gather. It's not up to the person to find the scheme. It's up to the scheme to find them. And again, as you said at the top of the piece, you know, 23% of people at this stage halfway through a five year redress scheme is very worrying. Yeah, for sure. And we recently saw it was changing the paper, the coalition of mother and baby home survivors.

29:20They disbanded after 30 years stating that they take their campaign as far as they could and feeling let down by the state's response. I mean, to see a group like this disband, I mean, what signals that send you about the relationship between survivor groups and the stage? It's very worrying and I know over the years they did a huge amount work. I mean, again, many survivors and their families say to me, they're exhausted. One woman said to me recently, I feel like I'm screaming into a well. Nobody's listening to me. And I think just that constant fatigue of having to go to various places for various things, you know, we haven't even spoken about survivors seeking their records, which are in so many different government departments and in private institutions. And quite frankly, people just get worn out and I can understand that completely. Okay. So to finish off for anyone listening today, Patricia, who spend time in any of the mother and baby homes or any of the institutions are maybe a family member who's as supporting

30:20a loved one. What is your direct message to them about taking that first tap step in order to contact the scheme? Two things I would say absolutely everyone who's currently eligible should make an application. And I would really encourage people to support their family members to make that application. And also that there is no shame, you know, we've had multiple apologies to say, what happened in these institutions was wrong. The shame was not the women or the children or the men who spend time in other institutions. The shame is Ireland's shame. So please apply for the payment three dress scheme. Okay. All right. Just a minute out. We'll speak again. Patricia, but in the meantime, thank you for that. And thanks for joining us. Thank you so much. Good morning. That is Patricia Carey, who's a special advocate for survivors of institutional abuse. 0818103103 Call Patricia with your call that 08103103 Court today on C103. Oh no. The HSC has confirmed that public supplies of the winter flu

31:23vaccination for high risk groups and children are secure. But we have been hearing that some local companies have had to cancel on-site employee clinics. And that seems seems to be a squeeze on private vaccine stock. So what does this mean? To make sense of the shortages and to remind us why getting vaccinated matters so much as the cold weather sets in and joined on the line by not obeys to our pharmacist at Dr. Peter at Wheel. Good morning to Peter and you're welcome to the program. Thank you, Patricia. Good morning to you too. Now let's start at the beginning. Why why does one need to get vaccinated and who exactly needs to get vaccinated? Well, we all know this flu hits us every year and the use in that winter time. It's very seasonal. And we know that last year there was about 25,000 confirmed flu cases which are unfortunately led to a proximity 300 deaths. So it's very important that we get vaccinated for flu. So especially those that are vulnerable as we get older, our immune system gets weaker. So those over 65 are all

32:29entitled to get the new flu vaccine this year. And obviously people that are undergoing treatments immunocompromised are for cancer and so on. And of course children as well because children readily pick up flu and their greatest spreaders of flu, especially to the older population, maybe to the grandparents and so on. So they're the kind of groups, the general groups that should get vaccinated for flu every year starting now. And you said there the new flu vaccine because every year inevitably we'll get questions in soon. I sure got the vaccine last year. I must be fine. We explain why it's important to get it every year in particularly those groups of people. Well, I mean, the once we get vaccinated, the immunity for the Zelpa over about two weeks, but then of course it starts to wane. So every year it wanes. And then also the vaccine, sorry, the virus itself changes. So this is monitored worldwide by the World Health Organization.

33:30And you mentioned about potential shortages. One of the reasons was this year, there are three strains in the vaccine were changed, which is highly unusual. Normally the vaccine has changed one strain of the three, but because, I don't know if you can recall last year, the vaccine wasn't as effective as normal because at the last minute it's kind of September, October time, the virus changed. And of course the vaccines have been made before that. You can make millions of vaccines overnight. So the production starts in March, April time, far of the flu season. So we were kind of caught a little bit off guard last year. Now the vaccine was effective. It did give protection, but it didn't give as much protection as we would have liked last year. So because of that, the World Health Organization said, right, we need to have a really good look at this. They changed all three strains, which really caught all the manufacturers on the hop and they

34:35make significant changes. So that's why we've had a delay in the production. Now we're very sure, by the Minister of Health, that they have secured enough supply for Ireland, but it's coming on a phase basis. It's not all here. Yes, but I do know we're expecting our deliveries of that vaccine next week, the first allocation of it. Okay. And the the vulnerable listeners that you mentioned, they're the ones there for the Chico forward first to get the vaccine. Is that what you'd be advising? Absolutely. Well, I mean, in particular, the elderly and there's a new vaccine this year. It's not it's new to us in the last year. We didn't have this enhanced vaccine for those that are over 65. It's called fluid and there's no supply shortage on that. It's restricted to those over 65 because it's got an extreme gradient, which enhances the the body's ability to deal with distributing

35:37the vaccine throughout the body. So it's a thing called squalling, which is being added. It's a natural substance. But what it does is it attracts the cells in the body, the kind of neutrophils and so on to to the cells so that it picks up the vaccine, takes it to the lymph system and then distributes, grows the body. So it's a very useful feature and it's great that we have this vaccine this year for our over 65. Okay. All right. And somebody says, could you ask your your guest and my guest is Dr. Peter Whedall, he's a metal based pharmacist. Could you ask him about the children's vaccine? How straightforward is that process? And why is it so important for children to get vaccinated? Yeah, the children and the between two and younger adults of the 17 so it's any one between two and 17. It's a nasal vaccine. It's important to emphasize that it's actually a low-eat vaccine. So the other vaccines are not low. They're dead. They can't give you the children's vaccine is a

36:40low-eat-attenuated vaccine. So what that means is it's kind of watered down or it's it's attenuated down so that it doesn't give the child a flu but it is a low-eat-attenuated vaccine. So that's important from the point of view of if the children are being mined by their grandparents for example or someone who's been immunocompromised, then care needs to be taken around that. But again, I would say in those situations you really got to take your advice, you know, healthcare provider, your GP or pharmacist as to how long they should stay away from the grandparents if they are incumpromised. So it's very simple. It's an islis-gray. It doesn't cause any pain. It's very simple to administer and it's very effective because children as we know are great spreaders of diseases because of being in classrooms and so on and especially in the winter, coughing and sneezing. So they're a great reservoir for transmitting viruses to

37:43each other and then bringing those viruses home and transmitting them to other people. Okay and of course during the pandemic I spoke with you on so many occasions about COVID and particularly about COVID vaccine and there is a COVID booster out there. Yeah, we're moving away from the terminology booster. So there is a new COVID vaccine. It's again from Pfizer's bioinetic. It's the mRNA vaccine which is one of the greatest outcomes of the horrible time that we went through with during the pandemic. But COVID is not season or COVID is what it's all all year round but of course probably doesn't spread as much in the summertime even though there were quite a few cases in the summer. But during the winter when we're all indoors and we're together and we're talking to each other then droplets are being spread and we do know that there was about 5,000 cases last year in Ireland and I'm approximately 100 deaths. Hard to get precise figures but it's

38:45so the COVID vaccine is there. It's available now for anyone that's over 60 years of age or below 60 years of age is during immunocompromised and basically the HZ said that anyone or rating years of age who's nothing necessarily in the risk groups can get the COVID vaccine provided they have a discussion with their GP or pharmacist and they decide that yeah that it's probably best that they do get us. Okay, and for those that are over 80 years of age it's twice a year. Well, and no but but anyone below 80 years of age so between 60 and 80 is recommended once a year and to get it this time of the year. Okay and no no short as with the COVID-19 vaccine. No shortage. Okay, I was a I was a shortage is probably putting things too strongly Patricia in that we will have vaccine we will have enough but we won't have it now. Okay. We'll have it it's a production got delayed so instead of having let's say 100% of the vaccines available

39:49on day one we're getting it in phases coming in. Unfortunately what that means is of course the health uh services and health services around the world have bought up as much as they can possibly guess and therefore the excess for private purchase is not as readily available. We don't know when it's going to become available and there are some that say it won't become available but we we don't know we can't predict over the next few months or weeks what's going to happen. And finally there is another vaccine we need to talk about and this is the shingles vaccine which is caused by the chicken box virus isn't it? That's correct yeah it's very very interesting developments are coming through in the last couple of years that there's a saying at the moment that shingles vaccination lowers the risk of dementia which obviously would be very welcome. Now it has to be emphasized that the studies that have been done so far have been

40:50observational so it's not proven there's been no randomized trials that have tested shingles for dementia prevention but there's a really strong evidence emerging from around the world that shingles vaccine may be helpful in being neuroprotective so that it helps us protect against dementia. So I mean the sensual reading of the data at the moment is that it's clearly worth having the shingles prevention by taking the vaccine but the dementia benefit look that's an extra bonus at the moment. Sure and anyone who's ever had shingles will tell you get the vaccine because you already don't want to end up with shingles. Oh absolutely and we've been vaccinating for shingles now for a couple of years and people coming in and when we tell them the price because it's not available currently on the health service and the price could be you know four hundred and eighty so the two doses two months apart it's a lot of money to spend and both people willingly spend it because

41:56they've had shingles they don't ever want to have it again and to them four hundred maybe yours is cheap to avoid the pain of the shingles that they suffer previously but it should be available on the health service that's you know it's available in the UK it's available in other European countries for those that are risk especially those over 65 because we all carry well I'm sorry most of us 90% plus of us carried chicken box virus from when we were children so it's in our system and it's as we get older and we get and our immunity wins the device opportunistically then spreads and we get shingles yeah because I'm hearing a lot of children getting chicken pox yeah so if if a child in your house has chicken pox can the adult then get shingles from that no no the the shingles comes from what's already in you it's latent yeah you you you can't contact chicken pox so for example if someone has shingles has a shingle rash and they're

42:59infectives they can pass that on but they pass on chicken pox because it's the it's the it's the harpy zoster virus so that they pass on the virus so it is possible to contract chicken pox if you haven't already got it but the chances are most of us had it have the had it's you know there's very few that have never had chicken pox yeah even if you don't remember getting it it is very very possible because yeah once it came into the household it's a tendency that everybody in the household got it or it gave a came into a classroom all right so you finally and briefly peter your message anybody listening who hasn't already booked the winter flu shot now is the time yeah absolutely get vaccinated I mean obviously it does huge demands at GPs pharmacies are probably all flat out they may they may be a slight delay but obviously people will try and prioritize the the most important to get vaccinated first again our elderly population those

43:59that are undergoing treatment that are immunocompromised and especially get the children in you know it does take about two weeks to build up the full immunity so the sooner it's done the better there's really little little points in turning up in February to get vaccinated when the season is pretty much over okay listen always a pleasure thank you for that piece you have a good day thank you joining us bye bye that is Dr. Peecher Whedall who is a malo based pharmacy oh 818103103 we've got Sean Collins taking your calls we got to take a quick break and we're heading to the newsroom for news at 11 onigwin.io is now giving away cash 10,000 euro in cash to be precise you enter by answering the following question following very simple question can I say what is the official currency use in the Republic of Ireland is it a euro or b dollars what you got to do is text win

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46:00Bantry on Saturday and when you hear what it was for you you'll understand why there was a big turn out it was to honor the men who Michael said they were ordinary small farmers from West cork and some 60 years ago they marched to Dublin out was under the inspiration of the temporary man the late Ricardo DC what the time would have been the president of the NFA the National Farmers Association as it was then known they walked every step of the way from Bantry all the way to Dublin sleeping in houses in hayshets wherever they could get rest in shelter and just think about it they didn't have multiple ways back 60 years ago but what happened and what was incredible about this story was as they moved up through the country news obviously about what they were doing remember there was no internet in those days I mean you're being even talking about an era that not every household would even have had a television radios I suppose would have been the big way

47:03to get news out so I'm assuming it was spoken about on radios and probably word of mouth as well and word of mouth between the agricultural sector that these farmers were marching from West cork so what happened was as they moved up left Bantry headed out of cork moved up through the different counties they started gaining people who wanted to join them so the crowd literally started to swell until the by the time they reached Dublin there was about 30,000 people with them as they walked into Dublin now the Minister for Agriculture at the time was to quote Michael the infamous Charles J. Hoheh guess what he refused to meet them however Ricardo DC Captain Ricardo DC he put his army training into immediate action and they occupied the Department of Agriculture and they remained there until their mission was accomplished and obviously Charles J. Hoheh must have eventually come out and met them but as Michael was saying it's 60 years ago so you have to

48:05bear in mind this was 1966 it was a time in Ireland when things it was a dark time in Ireland things were very very hard especially in the agricultural sector they didn't have anything like the benefits that are available today wages at the time on average five pounds a week they very badly maintained and untired roads but Michael in particular wants to call out some of the people who really need to be remembered on that day he said one is highly respected in IFA circles that's Jackie Sullivan from Bear Island at Gianni O'Sullivan from Kale Kale Michael Keohan from Kahula Jim Morrison from Jimi Lig Tom Mollers from Bantry and many many more but Jackie Sullivan who I mentioned there he's an incredible story to tell he's from Bear Island but he traveled he was one they deemed to travel to the furthest from West cork by the time they reached Dublin because he had to come across the bear haven sound with his boat then walk a further 30 miles to get him to Bantry before

49:10he could even begin his at March but Michael says and the reason that he wants us to mention it today as well as he was very disappointed that 60 years ago it got little TV news and airtime to be honest Michael I saw a piece about it in the paper today and then you messaged in I hadn't heard about it up till then either and he feels that there should have been TV cameras down there because he felt it was newsworthy and he said look at all the coverage that they're giving to the Garvahee Road they're getting plenty of coverage don't know if you're if that's like for like for like but I do think it certainly would be would be worthy of some TV coverage he reckoned it should have got a lot more television coverage because the impact of what they did 60 years ago the impact on agriculture today so these were ordinary small farmers none of them were professionals they weren't teachers they weren't solicitors or academics but he said under the stewardship of the great regard DC they changed farming in this country for for for what it is today and indeed forever more

50:17regard as the National Farmers Association president an army captain a labor party member who steered agriculture to what it is today in this country and the courageous commitment and determination of gallant men will be remembered for generations to come now Michael said he actually had the pleasure of being in a record it records house he said a true gentleman powerful presence that will never be forgotten by so many families in agriculture today and for many years to come God bless him and the farming soldiers they won a great battle so well done and glad to acknowledge and remember 60 years ago what started in bad tree but then swelled as they moved up the country side oh 818103103 we were speaking with Peter Wheeler the Malabase pharmacist and the last hour about vaccines in particular the flu vaccine with the other vaccines that are available and we also touched on the shingles vaccine but the shingles vaccine is very very expensive that led

51:21so much say is it available on private health insurance and Sean as Checton says yes that certainly some of the private health insurance companies do provide coverage for shingles but like in for some they will only be the shingles vaccine for seniors under specific conditions it obviously will be based on the rage but it also is going to be based on the plan they are under members age 70 and over can receive the shingles vaccine at free while those age 60 to 69 at high risk due to medical condition may also be eligible to seek him with your doctor on that but if you're going under private health insurance and you are looking to see will they cover just check in at with them if you know all you can get is a no but at least if you ask you can find out the plan you're on and if you are eligible or not we've been mentioning some of the things that have been spoken about in advance of the budget tomorrow and I did mention that while there is going to be increases

52:25in things like the fuel allowance it's going to certainly be looking like there's increases in the living alone allowance the rental room scheme is going to be extended and people can earn more money through that but then I also mentioned so there's going to be it's looking like no change to child benefit that will remain the same and this just says how unfair that the child benefit or children's allowance is still commonly called will not get an increase surely it will be better to give an increase in child benefit and this is one distance view and cut the rubbish school meals which are a waste of time as many times they arrive cold when they are delivered to the schools we always whenever we do we haven't done it now and while haven't spoken about the school dinners and because we didn't have meals game because we haven't done it in a while because we haven't heard from Mr. Zayst you maybe they had improved because generally speaking that's why we start to talk about it is you'll have people sending

53:26on pictures and giving out about them but then we always kind of get a mixed bag mixed commentary and some listeners saying that their grade depends on the school depends on the area you're in and where your school is accessing the school dinners from but it always seems to be a mixed bag with this listener and certainly would prefer more in the child benefit and scrap the hot school dinners I don't know how other mams and dads repeat about that oh 818103103 John Ford did to say although there are much more serious things to deal with he's also got his mind on the budget tomorrow and he would like to see the government slap on a tax so high on cigarettes that it would literally make them not affordable for people John says the people were unable to afford cigarettes it would likely free up a lot of health care with much less sickness that is caused you to smoke him

54:26this and there's one big fatal flaw that I see in your plan at John and it is already a problem and that is the amount of cigarettes and tobacco products that are smoked in this country that are not purchased in this country now they can be purchased legally by people going overseas on holidays and people stocking up but there are also illegally coming into the country and I know when you're saying tax them so much the people can't afford it that's kind of like the bluish they've gone down to in Australia open to correction but I think a packet of 20 cigarettes in Australia is about 70 or 80 dollars a packet but nobody are very little are actually smoking the legal tobacco they Australia is flooded with illegal cigarettes that people then are buying for 20 dollars I mean if you've been you've the choice of buying a packet of cigarettes and you're addicted remember to nicotine at 80 dollars against 20 you know what you're going to go for you going to go for the 20 dollar packet so I think if we were to go down that route say the Irish government were to

55:31decide they were going to really slap on huge amount of tax and say make it 50 euro for a packet of cigarettes while there's already a lot of illegal cigarettes in this country their country would be a wash with illegal cigarettes I guarantee you people are addicted we need to work on the addiction and I don't think pricing it out is actually going to work but we'll see do others agree you disagree with John oh 818 103 103 thank you for your call John you can text your WhatsApp as well oh 86 103 103 and I mentioned the Garvahi Rose because it was mentioned by somebody earlier and normally hold Kevin from Middleton phoned in to say he went up to the Garvahi Rose over the weekend probably saw that on the news the amount of people that went out to show their support to the people of the Garvahi Rose and I'm sure Sean was saying on Friday that he knew of a boss from Kerry from where he's from that was traveling up so there seemed to be bosses organized and people went in cars and you know made their own way up just wanted to show support to the people of the Garvahi

56:34Rose and Kevin from Middleton was one of those people and he said he wasn't able to find a B&B because I was hit along journey and he didn't want to go have to do what hopped down the one day and he tried to find a B&B and he couldn't find a local B&B anyway he still went up supporting out on the Garvahi Road and he got chatting to this lovely family and obviously explained where he was from I know he tried to get a B&B etc but no one behold they said he was fair bad why don't you come and stay with us so Kevin said he was really surprised then to find out the family who he had met on the Garvahi Road were Protestants we always assumed that everybody on the Garvahi Road and everybody living there we assumed that they are all Catholics he said he's biggest takeaway from the weekend was that this isn't a case of Catholics and Protestants arguing Kevin's takeaway was that everyone regardless of religion just want peace while and if we could just get that through to the people that sit down and try and engage on behalf of the orange order

57:42and I certainly think the members of the Garvahi Road residents I think all they want is peace but we somehow have to get the two sides sitting together talking together find that peaceful solution and then let those good people get on with their lives and thank you Kevin for sharing that story with us oh 8103 103 text or what's up Patricia with your comment oh 8 6 2 103 103 court today on c 103 there is a growing urgent campaign calling for a dedicated stem cell laboratory at Corke University Hospital right now vulnerable blood cancer patients across monster are been forced to travel up to Dublin or Galway for life-saving cell therapies like bone marrow transplants treatments that consultants right here in Corke say could be delivered at CUH if the lab facility was available and funded the HSC's capital plan currently leaves the 27 million euro

58:49project in Limbo but behind these numbers are real people they're real families and there are very very grueling journeys joining me on the line now from Cove is Carla Brown two years ago Carla underwent a donor stem cell transplant for Linfoma in Dublin a journey that was made all the more extraordinary given that she was originally diagnosed with cancer while pregnant she spent four long months away from home and away from her young family during her recovery and the lightest say Carla takes time out this morning to join us good morning chicala good morning Patricia thanks for having me well listen you've got such a story to tell and thank you for sharing the story with us but I suppose to understand where this journey began you actually received your Linfoma diagnosis while you were pregnant what was that initial moment like you know processing

59:51both the joy of pregnancy and then a cancer diagnosis at the same time yeah it was very difficult and to start off I was it took a long time for me to even get diagnosed I was in hospital in the September before as a September 2022 and just for a random checkup in the maternity hospital and they happened to just find the cancer so I was just extremely lucky and but you know you don't expect that when you go in for a routine checkup and I had to deal with that then for months where we weren't sure what it was going to be or what how it would look but and because I was pregnant they couldn't really do all the normal tests like the PET scans and things straight away so I had to undergo a cardiothoracic surgery and everything during that time and then eventually I was diagnosed in the January and it was kind of all go from that from that moment but it was very tough few months to trying to you know trying to enjoy the pregnancy but we were terrified to be

1:00:55honest yeah I can imagine I can imagine and at what point them during your treatment plan where you told that your stem cell transplant couldn't be performed in cork and that's how you know about this carol but you're going to have to go to sinchames and this and Dublin yeah well I originally wasn't supposed to have a stem cell at all so they had said six months of chemotherapy everything will be great you'll be back to normal so I thought excuse me I thought that'd be fine you know I had to they planned for me to take a break I started chemo straight away I was going to take a break of a week to have the baby and then finish it out and that was the end but it didn't go to plan and the chemo didn't actually work and so they had to change their plans and it was another one of those this is what we have to do you're going to have a stem cell transplant I didn't know anything about it I just went along with it I didn't even register that it wouldn't be in cork to be honest I just you know I just went with the flow but it was it was difficult when I kind of came to terms

1:01:58of the fact that it was going to be so long up there you know they they do explain it to you but you don't it's very hard to take that in you know you're going through so much and you're exhausted as well you know you're sick and so I a lot of the time those things don't really register with you the extent of having to be away for that long or on your own you know I'm just trying to yeah and like you're leaving behind everything you're leaving behind your home your family your baby and you're also leaving behind the local hospital network where you've started to build up connections yeah that's true actually and I spent a lot of time and see you H so I would have known everybody up there very well and in a weird way I kind of felt comfortable there you know I felt safe and then to be taken out of that environment and you're putting into something completely different on your own and again leaving your family I had the little tiny baby at the time and I had to leave him and my older boy and and just had to get on with the rice bowls but that that part

1:03:01was very difficult and going into an environment where you're not used to the people and stuff it it just makes it another bit harder than it already is you know so you go to Dublin in 10th week of chemotherapy followed by the transplant that all happens fairly quickly but then the recovery you're in this strict isolation yeah so you have intense chemo for a week which is very tough chemo and the transplant itself I would actually I look favorably on that when I think back you know it's a really it's a great moment because it's 30 minutes and you know it's like changing and 30 minutes it's 30 minutes and it looks just like a little bag of blood if anybody has gotten a transfusion well no it's the same thing and and I have a full lovely photograph of it and I see it as a very positive time and the time after was very difficult you know you have no immune system at all so I see you're growing new stems you know stem cells so

1:04:02it's actually it can be quite painful because your body is first of you have you know no protection from anything you're very very exhausted and vulnerable but even the the the physicage of the stem cells working in your body that actually can be a physical feeling as well so you've all these things you know that you're going through and the recovery takes a very long time you're very fatigued and I think the first two weeks I don't even know if I could I think I got out of the bed maybe a few days you know but it was it was a massive experience you can get out of the bed at the start and it's kind of like starting from scratch and you're also very stressed at the time because there's a lot of uncertainty and you're watching your blog accounts all the time to see if it works you know so it's very yeah did you feel yeah and did you feel very lonely Carla yeah I did you know you're you're firstly you're in a room so I was in a hospital room for two

1:05:05months on my own in a ward that was isolated and even if you know people I it was hard for people to visit but I did feel I felt on my own because I suppose I was so far away from anybody who could visit so you know you couldn't have somebody just pop into you for five minutes and be like a face that you recognized you know you're just you're alone with your thoughts and you know yourself when you're not feeling well sometimes you just want the comfort of somebody with you do you know to tell you it's going to be okay and it's great to have people on the phone and and video calls and stuff but not the same I actually I offered in of the energy yeah very tiring trying to talk to people on the phone or even picking up the phone you know that's that's how the level of exhaustion and fatigue you have and your poor husband made the journey and then he couldn't even get in and give you a hug no so the kids worked out I sometimes I think it worked out well the kids both got chicken

1:06:07pox I think the day after I went in which was a big no no you know I read flag because I could have gotten very sick so anybody who had been exposed to the kids couldn't come into me anyway but I was you know a very lonely so he drove up to three hours and he stood outside the door and and just looked in the window you know the glass he and he looked in and and he rang me and we had a chat and then he went home and and that meant an awful lot to me just to have somebody there and you know to see a friendly face and the image in my mind now Karla is you on one side of the glass with your hand up and his hand on the other side are you in the bed and you couldn't even get out I was in the bed oh yeah that poor man I want to hand up I know what a great husband you have and then when you think about it I mean he's got all this worry I mean you're the love of his life you know and so he's then trying to balance work he's also obviously got you know trying to get after two young children and then the the odd chance got help him that he can drive

1:07:11up the motorway to look at you through the the pain glass at window I mean all of that must have an absolutely huge effect on him as well oh absolutely I mean they do say a cancer affects the whole family yeah like and it does it affected all of us you know he was he was trying to keep things normal for the kids and trying to work because obviously I had been out of work as well so we needed an income and and so we were great we were very lucky and grateful that we had family around us who were very supportive as well at the time I think like my smallest Ben had to go to stay with Inlaus for nearly a month at one stage because you know he was very small and so if if I was able to see Merrick at all like my husband or my older little boy I think I saw him one you know it was just trying to make that happen trying to facilitate it was actually difficult in itself and so he you know he did a great job and he was there you know I was very lucky that he made those efforts for me you know and but it's very tough very tough to try to deal with all that

1:08:15and act normal then so he was trying to keep things normal at home with the boys and I was trying to act like things were normal but from very far away which is not easy to do you know and then once you do finally get discharged from the hospital and this is why we so need this facility here in cork you were not able to get to cove straight away because I think you had to be within one hour of St. James's hospital so that meant another two months obviously he used his complications or whatever so so what do you have to do what kind of a kind of you to go into accommodation did you have to rent a place yeah you have to so I had to be as you said within an hour of the hospital and some people do stay with family but again you're completely immunocompromised and your environment has to be very specific so it's not always suitable either and there's a great charity that actually provides accommodation for St. James's transplants for the stem cells and they were

1:09:18they're they're the bone marrow for leukemia trust and so they put you up and I mean I'm very thankful to them because I was very worried about that aspect as well how I was going to do that and the apartments are they're within walking distance of the hospital so when I first so I spent two months in the hospital itself and then a further two months basically next to the hospital and I had checkups at one stage it was it was every every day and then every two days and then it was weekly you know so as you progress and things get better they obviously lessen but you did have to be you to be very close by and things can go wrong you see very quickly yeah do go wrong you know and I take a jab to have somebody you had to have somebody with you did you I did I had my mom was on me well done yeah she was brilliant and now she's my rock I have to say okay and the good new story from all of this is that this is what we're talking about happened two years ago you're two years in remission which is that fantastic news I'm fearful of asking this question do you still have

1:10:24to travel to Dublin for checkups I do I'm actually going next week yeah I know so so I go once now as I said like things are progressing and I'm doing you know very well I think it's cross to health wise though I go once every four months now to Dublin and in between they actually see me in court so that I don't have to take the trip you know too often but my my trips are basically three hours up in the car I wait around for the day and then I'm in the appointment for probably less than 10 minutes you know and then home again so when I can go to court in between is just a lot easier obviously because I don't have to travel and I also know the doctors as well in court and they have you know I think they have a lot of the things outsourced already there and they're they're ready for for a center they're a transplant center yeah and I was watching even on the news last night doctor fatali one of their famous consultants out at CUH you know he's saying they could deliver this advanced cellular treatment locally but it's the lab infrastructure needs to be

1:11:30and see if there was a lab there up and then it closed 18 years ago yeah it was actually Max McCarthy told me that because as she's obviously fronting this and I wasn't aware of that and I knew that they did outsource an awful lot of the work from court down to or from Dublin down to court and they're able to carry out most of the even the tests all the the pre-stem cell transplant tests you've to go through I did all of them in court actually and so it and I suppose having the transplant would be the same nearly in every hospital if it was to be set up you know doesn't matter where you are but and I think that's why they're pushing for it so much as well now because they have a lot of it set up there and they have the doctors I heard the HEC say it's not included in their capital plans up to 2030 that must be so frustrating to hear that you know the doctors are available the you know they're ready to do it the roadblock is purely down to funding that's got to be frustrating a car to feel it is and it's well it's not me I've been through

1:12:34it you know so I'm thinking of somebody else who might be like me in the future another mom or you know somebody else who has to to undertake that and spend a lot of time away from their families are their their support networks and when it could be somewhere in quark and you know it would just make this whole process a lot easier for that person or those people and obviously for the future if I didn't have to go to doffin will be grace yeah for sure for sure listen well down to you I've already spoken with Max McCarthy on this topic and well done to Max I know she's gone she's taken the issue to Lensdair House fantastic to have you all speaking out and let's hope you are finally listened to and we'll get this facility for the good people it won't just be for the people of cork will be for the people of monster who at the moment have to travel to Dublin our goal of a carler continue good health to you it was a joy to speak with you this morning thank you for that and thanks for joining us thanks very much Patricia good morning to you bye bye that is a carler brown a cancer survivor with her own stories to share oh eight one eight one oh three

1:13:38one oh three email patrician now with your story or comment cork today at c103 dot i and it's hot to me cork today on c103 as national breastfeeding we get on the way across the country new figures from the hsc reveal a contrast in how feeding journey outcomes look inside hospital walls versus out in the community according to the latest data exclusive breastfeeding rates in hospital stays dropped to under 35% last year however once families get home these numbers jump back up to nearly 42% and that's at the first public health nurse visit voluntary organization the ledger league of iron says this highlights a vital need for earlier skilled support in maternity settings as well as raising awareness of the community network which is helping families stay on a track and join me on the show this morning is Marie Osloven and Marie is a local leader

1:14:44with ledger league Ireland here in cork morning to you Marie and you welcome to the program thank you and Patricia good morning to you too i'm glad to be here well it's great to speak with you know the latest hsc figures show exclusive breastfeeding during hospital stays drops from 37% in 2019 to 34% last year yet it bounces up to nearly 42% once the public health nurse pays a visit why do you think families are struggling in hospital settings specifically well i think it's it's down to you know we have heard only recently that you know that we in cork anyway we need at least 80 midwives and nurses in our maternity hospital so i think that is possibly really contributing to it and like if you look at the numbers also between 2019 and 2025 and not i think that has heightened is medicalise birds

1:15:46that is the zaryan sections and there is a need for a lot more staff to be available to mothers when they have such medicalise birds so then breastfeeding kind of falls off the charts because they really need to focus on those post-operative mothers as well and so then when they come out locally there is there is public health nurses there's ledger league you know we're available 365 days a week 24 hours a day sometimes you know i am so so required you and friends of breastfeeding and then of course you have iBCLCs in private practice as well who who work which in the community so then those structures get put into place and it's just so important for mothers to be able to reach out and ask for that help it's unfortunate that exclusive rates have dropped in the hospital but hopefully if we get more midwives implied it will hopefully seek climb up again

1:16:52absolutely because everybody knows how stretched they are out at the at the me maternity hospital now there was a study that came out in 2024 of over 250 Irish midwives and student midwives and it found that while most knew about laid back breastfeeding only around 7% routinely used it when helping mothers why is a technique that is proven to make feeding easier why is that being underutilized in Irish hospitals well i suppose saying with laid back breastfeeding it's something you really need to see in maybe in a more relaxed setting as well or something you would need to experience yourself and i guess like as a mother myself and as a ledger league leader i would have done laid back breastfeeding with my own babies it was the most you know comfortable feeding position it's the most natural feeding position as well like

1:17:53it's so supportive and restful of for mothers and for babies babies really feed so well in us and i i just think the hospital is setting it can be quite difficult to get into a comfortable position obviously if they're dealing with mothers who've had cesarean sections or pzotomies all of the ash you know that can also make it harder for them to to get into that position or for like the midwives to guide them into that position and last times it can be kind of misinterpreter for people think that you're on your setting bones but you're more on your on your sacrum when you're doing laid back breastfeeding i don't know have you actually i'm i have indeed i have indeed and i actually watched a video on it and i've i should have started i should have done the question back i've done the question backwards because i can see a listener saying what is laid back breastfeeding so i suppose it's a people who don't know just explain it okay how would i be as to explain laid back breastfeeding so it's more so the the when the mother sets down and latch latches the baby on

1:18:59she can latch the baby on in a kind of an upright position but once she's got the baby on comfortably then what she needs to do is just to kind of move her her bump forward on the couch or the seat for every she's setting so she's kind of coming more towards the front of the seat yeah and so then her her body is reclining back and then the baby is kind of more on top of her but the baby has really good support then because the gravity is holding the baby down and the mother doesn't have to do so much holding and the baby is very much supported and they feel secure because their feet are and supported say on the mother's legs and and their whole body is supported yeah a good way of thinking of it is if anybody's ever seen puppies and kittens feeding that's how they feed they feed in that very supportive position their their paws are up their little chin is dug in and their noses are free and their whole body is kind of flash on the ground and then their their their feet their paws their back paws are sunk into the ground and

1:20:03they push with their paws so they're really ground as while they're feeding so it's a much more it gives the baby a lot more competence when they're feeding as well and can I say certainly looks way much more comfortable for the mother yes oh it is so comfortable for the mother because she's not taking the whole weight of the baby and a lot of mothers get very confused when they're getting the babies and getting babies laps they think they need to bring the breast to the baby with the baby if the baby comes to the breast yeah the breast to the baby so then you get mothers and they're hunched over and they're holding them stuff in these very unnatural positions so when you're going to recline then it's just so much more relaxing and supportive okay and I'm also very aware that when and I think for a new parents you know a baby number one for example when they come home from the hospital you know sort of second feed very overwhelmed and there can be the panic then I'm not doing it right what if I'm not feeding them

1:21:04and enough what do you suggest what is the first thing that that new yeah that young new mother should do when she gets home yeah yeah when when they're home suddenly on their own you know with with their partner you're assuming yeah and so what do you suggest was the first step they should take the first steps they should take is up the stairs and into bed okay and and and and skin to skin with the baby as much as possible in those first kind of two weeks babies are going through growth births so they're they're going to want to feed feeding frequently helps ensure that the mother doesn't get really engorged and and end up in pain making sure that like again that baby is well latched that it's comfortable take the baby off the baby if it is uncomfortable make sure they're they're you know they're eating and drinking to trust and to hunger and they're and they're resting

1:22:04in between feeds and keeping baby close like you keep your baby close and you can really kind of relax because you're not going to worry you're not looking at them so keeping them on your skin to skin and then watch you know watching out for your wet and dirty nap is to know that the baby's transferring milk and that they're feeding at least eight to 12 times in 24 hours just and enjoy that time and enjoy that time yeah yeah absolutely and how long is the visitors are for a while yeah apps that's a really we and I know people get very excited about covenants in the new baby take those few weeks take those few weeks to enjoy yourself and is there a suggestion for how long you should breastfeed for up to how many weeks months well it's it's really great to see you know how that the tree month figures have have risen for exclusive breastfeeding so that's great really six months exclusively breastfeeding which means you know that you're not giving any top ups or supplements or you know it's just breast milk up to six months that's all the baby needs and

1:23:13then introducing foods and then from six months onwards to eat like some people will feed two a year two years some people will feed your tree it's really it's a personal decision it's a relationship at the end of the day you know it's it's the mom's decision it's the family's decision and I'm just the baby's decision exactly I mean and I was thinking at the the cost of baby formula you might goodness you by by exclusively breastfeeding there is also an added benefit of the financial side yes absolutely and like I know people will say there is you know that we say it's free but obviously it's free but it's also you know it's the it's a labor of love for a mother and you know you you don't need some help and support in those early days and weeks so you may end up spending some money but it's an investment then I can say it like you know it's an investment if you do have to spend some money to get some extra help I mean some babies have toned eyes and

1:24:13they'll have to be seen by specialists are you know are you might have to hire a private lactation consultant to visit your home but it's all an investment because then once those things are over those bumps are over you can really kind of focus on feeding and enjoying asher and getting the benefits of it less trips to the doctor and benefits for you as a mother as well okay and just the breast cancer just very finely how does the letchaleg operate locally in court yeah so our meetings are the fourth Friday of the month in art fallen out near Douglas kind of at the back of Douglas swimming pool there's loads of parking there great enjoy it's the fourth Friday of the month there's an online meeting as well every Thursday that mothers from all over Ireland can link into and you can get them you can message us and we can send you the link to that at the meetings then on the mothers come along and we have chats we have tea and mothers support

1:25:18mothers you know mothers mothers support peer to peer and we will help you provide your need we also do some leaders your home visits we take phone calls Jake emails WhatsApp messages which whatever way you want to communicate the support is there and I love the idea of those monthly meetings because it's a chance for mothers to meet as you say other mothers as well it's it is terrific and people can contact you and find out for the details at lenecchaleg Island.com yes and there's also the Leletchaleg cork instagram and you have my number if you do indeed we do indeed listen and thanks a million yeah thanks a million Maria for joining us on the program today hope you're very successful national breastfeeding week and continue to welcome everybody in fact in in Leletchaleg you do amazing work thanks for joining us bye bye bye that is Maria Sullivan who is the local leader here for Leletchaleg in cork and it's great to see

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1:28:30park road in malo to stop going through the red lights and also for people who are attempting to cross the road they are attempting to cross on red lights as well also I would suggest that those red lights could be moved down are not the red lights the traffic lights could they moved down a little bit because they're too close to the bend in the corner and I reckon that there were so many near misses but people need to behave and please only cross their drive when your lightest green red means you need to stop and then some of the issues we were talking we're talking about the farmers and the 60th anniversary of this incredible march that started off in bantry and it's the 60th anniversary of it was in 1966 a group of farmers being led by a record at DC on the national farmers association as the group was called and they walked from bantry to Dublin and along the way

1:29:31more and more farmers joined and eventually 30,000 farmers descended on Dublin and it was Michael from Castle Tom Bayer was started we started the program with it and he was making the point that you know there was this an event that happened to commemorate the 60 years of the march and he was very disappointed that it got very little no I don't think did it get any television coverage did anybody see it in proportion TV the first I saw which was in the papers today I have to say it was in the examiner I saw a piece but he thought there should have been a lot more publicity about the event anyway Tim says Tim is obviously somebody in the know who knows about this march as well he says he thinks it was pre-arranged at the farmers more different parts of the country would meet in Dublin okay I thought it was the way that the crowds were I thought people just came out and walked with them okay so obviously the different meetings of the National Farmers Association the different branches obviously were all involved in arranging that anyway Tim also disputes he said I don't think

1:30:37they occupied the Department of Agriculture he said I only think I think they stayed out on the door step Tim said the song after Dublin in the green in the green was popular at that year that year was also the 50th anniversary of the 1916 of course it was in 1966 and he said at the time Tim Ted Neelen changed after joined the IRA to after joins the NFA and then he said on Sean LeMasse leaving office to hand over to Jack Lynch LeMasse and his son-in-law Charles Hawley did come out amish with the farmers Ricardo DC stepped down shortly after and it was one T.J. Mar another tipperary man who led the farmers into a new era and it was important later to have him in the European Parliament and that is from Tim thank you for that it's great to have listeners out there with such incredible memories as well thank you Tim and then this listener doesn't want

1:31:40their name called out which is fine but it they're picking up on the point that John made earlier John Jonathan one of our regular contributions in the city was on earlier on he's dead against smoking and he feels when we were talking about the budget so what life is the included in the budget and we'll be really looking for your thoughts and comments on this tomorrow on the program as we've got a Vax pop that will be running you up what cork people are looking for in the budget so we want to hear from you our listeners as well but John reckoned that this government should hammer the price of a packet of cigarettes and just make it so expensive that nobody would be able to afford them and he said for once and for all to do what and he says it was free up the number of people that would be going going into hospital with smoking related illnesses as well and I just saw one problem with it that you just get a sale of illegal cigarettes if you make the ordinary cigarettes just so expensive that people can't buy them but I also mentioned and as a former smoker I know what it is like to be addicted

1:32:43and it isn't just as easy as saying okay I'm not going to smoke anymore it's very very difficult and people can have many many tries before they're finally able to do it but it prompted a listener who doesn't want their name called out listening to John's comment about the cigarette smoking now this person describes themselves as a very vulnerable person I don't drink I don't socialise the only comfort I feel I have in life is my few cigarettes I live in a very remote part of the countryside and believe me that's all I have is my cigarettes if you want to do something to raise taxes then I think it's to the afflicence you should be looking the afflicence and the damage that can be done from alcohol is casting people a lot more than a packet of cigarettes we've got people sitting behind the wheel of a car and causing accidents I will never be able to give up with my cigarettes because they are my only comfort please don't mention my name Patricia I won't

1:33:45and we won't yeah and that sums up for some people who that's all that they have that's what they feel that all they have in life is their cigarettes as expensive as they are and while everybody knows their bad view when you are addicted God knows you are addicted oh wait one eight one oh three one oh three there is a fundraising social and dance in Balanced Carti Hall this Friday I've just seen a text in music is by Tim Joe and Anne O'Reardon and dancing will be on from nine until half past eleven hope everybody enjoys that remember last week I spoke with Councillor Ken Collins and we were talking about the old prison and there was this call to try to preserve it and turn it into a museum was one of the things that was mentioned well the T-Shok was speaking at the weekend and he has said he cannot guarantee that the old former cork prison which

1:34:48was built 220 years ago he can't guarantee that it won't be demolished during the six months that it will take to make it a protected structure as we spoke about on the program last week cork city council they voted unanimously to place the old cork prison which is on the north side of the city which are different times held people like the martyred lord mayor tomos mccartan and also terrence mac sweeney they have voted to put it on to the protected structures register but the council chief executive says that process can take six months and the old prison has been vacant for a decade it was replaced of course by the new prison but the new prison is regularly overcrowded but so the t-Shok is saying I can't say in while you're waiting for it to be made a protected structure it could be knocked down in in those six months because we do know that the Justice Minister Jimo Callahan has called for the old building to be demolished and instead replaced

1:35:54by two new facilities one would be for 230 male prisoners and the other would house a hundred female prisoners miha martin said Ireland has a very big problem with the lack of prison space and he said look a simply can't guarantee that old at old prison won't be demolished by the time you get it on to the structure the protected structure list and so many of and so much of the history of cork city is part of that prison story i mean if you look back in august of 1920 cork lord mayor terrence mac sweeney he began his hunger strike he was in that old prison that ended 74 days later and of course it ended with terrence mac sweeney's death in brixton prison and that of course brought into that tension and to the cause of Irish freedom his immediate predecessor then was the lord mayor tomos mac carton he also spent time in the cork detention barracks now if

1:36:55you look back and we're as we're saying it's two hundred and twenty years ago it was built by the british army eighteen or six the old building became a civilian prison that was in 1972 then it finally closed its doors ten years ago 2016 it was replaced by the purpose built two hundred and ninety six bed prison that cost forty five million at euro and of course built across on the wrath more road from the oeation the prison now has capacity for three hundred and four this is the new prison but they're routinely overcrowded in recent years as our prisons all over the country when the old prison closed the local community it seems this is according to dawn look here for the examiner today the local community was promised various community facilities on the site none of that actually came to pass the Irish prison service has said that a tender for the works on the old cork prison will be issued later this year and that will inform the decision

1:37:59on whether to proceed with demolishing the building or not so it was Friday the t-shirt said what he respected the pressures on politicians he had concerns about politics putting something on a protected structures list because of political reasons and not because of the architectural or historic reasons noting that the old cork prison has been vacant for more than a decade miha martin asked and this is a good question he says why has it not been listed as a protected structure during the last ten years why now is it suddenly becoming you know all important because they're hearing that it was going to be demolished it's nobody think to put it on the protected structure list in the last at ten years he says I think there's been a mixing of the jerseys here he added that city hall has taken the lead in remembering Terrence McSwini and in that

1:39:06includes obviously the Terrence McSwini key asked if there could be no guarantee the building would not be demolished that's on miha martin said no I can't guarantee it I'm not the minister for justice and I'm not one of the prison authorities on the other hand he said politically people will ask us to get more places for prisons he says it is a challenge our prisons are over crowded we have to do in-term program to create more prison spaces and he says we need more medium term plans rather than long term capacity a four long term capacity in our prison so that battle rage is on and it looks like it's going to be a fight against time how quick and core counter council get it onto the protected structures register because once it's on that I'm assuming it can't be demolished our house soon will the department of justice get their tenders in and will they decide to just level the building instead we'll watch this one very very closely oh eight one

1:40:09eight one oh three one oh three that's our producer number that's where Carl Sean is dandy by to take your calls if you have a question for him feel free to call oh eight one eight one oh three one oh three email patrician now with your story or comment cork today at c103.i cork today on c103 and whether the old cork prison can be saved or not or listen says if they put it on the national infantry of architecture heritage and then it gets protected under the national monuments act rather than development plan it definitely would have a basis for protection thank you for that so I don't know what are you saying with cork city council themselves going to get it on the protected structures register would that be able to save it or not I'm not quite sure from your text but thank you for that our producer Sean Collins who is in for parade all this week joins me in studio good afternoon Sean okay a lot of calls coming in

1:41:13budget day tomorrow people are nervously awaiting it would you say I'm just anticipating it nervous and anxiousness definitely the words yeah you never know I mean you have all the predictions you have all the the educated guesses what it's good to be but you can never tell until you open that paper the following day and see see what's actually happening yeah I listen listen to it tomorrow exactly but people generally speaking the one of this cigarettes genre don't have been saying make the cigarettes so expensive I came up with a figure then a 50 euro pack that kind of way make up that expensive yeah I mean it's it's a I'd love to see a world where cigarettes just aren't aren't a thing boss it's not realistic I mean if you get rid of them from the legal market they're going to show up on the on the illegal market I mean if you can get drugs hand over a fist anywhere in in Ireland or the rest of the world they're not gonna have a hard time getting cigarettes yeah and I I don't know if you heard me on that I was making the point that Australia who absolutely

1:42:14they detest cigarettes in Australia what the government do a little bit there's a lot of them would follow the lineage of you know Martin they've made them they're between $70 and $80 a packet so they're very expensive here but very few people buy the legal cigarettes because Australia now is flooded to the point that they're thinking of reversing all the taxation because they're losing so much money and they're losing the battle so you're in danger of doing that if you make it what is it I remember it in in accountancy it's the law of diminishing returns that if you put it up so expensive that people just won't buy them anymore and then if they go the illegal uh what we're completely cost yeah there's there's a level it'll get to where people like well I'm not I'm just not paying that and they'll they'll be able to find someone everyone will know someone who has access to to cigarettes somehow and that that's just the way it will go with they raise it through the roof but I would like to see a world where the cigarettes aren't it's you but I don't think pricing out is you've never smoked no never yeah yeah you're lucky and would you with many of your your age group because you're in the your grazing with many of of your

1:43:18age group do you know many people that smoke not not really not the people I know professionally know the people from like London who I who I tend to go to parodies with a lot of them would have a cigarette but then there's this the craze nowadays of oh I only smoke when I'm drinking I don't understand this I have a former smoker can I say that I don't know how people do that because we're if because when I now thankfully thankfully at that stage uh past that if I went near a cigarette physically makes me sick which I'm thrilled about because for years I don't not give it up and then like when to a party I sure I'll have one I'll be fine to year back smoke and straight away so people that do that never cease as to amazed me somebody wants to know where their statistics to show that there were fewer lung cancer dens deaths since the ban and actually there is they say that the immediate annual impact was following the ban lung cancer mortality in Ireland is decreased by 1% annually relative to what it had been before the legislation and they do point out that while

1:44:19statistics directly linked and it's hard between the smoking ban and broader tobacco control because lung cancer takes the years and forced you to develop so researchers had to bear that in mind as well but they have now that it's over 20 years since the ban came in the ban was directly they reckon associations with a hundred and thirteen fewer lung cancer deaths at par year at the time that was in the immediate aftermath but they reckon many more people many lives have been saved because of the ban I don't think anybody would want to go back you never knew what it was like to sit in this to sit in a pub with with people's smoking oh my god like I've heard the story you're lucky you're lucky stories listen when I started radio and there are photographs horrified as I am to say I've been an radio studio and there was an astray look at some of the stuff that comes out on television they spend the day nature smoking crazy crazy crazy times very different world all right what will cigarettes go up tomorrow more than likely they will but I don't think anything

1:45:23like what John and Jonathan is thinking about and also people still have a very keen interest in what's going on up north with the Garvahi road and that's got a lot to do with the amount of people who there was a lot of people traveled 15,000 people were up there all the weekend it said and I mean there was buses I know there's a bus organized from Kerry and there was buses organized from Cork as well as others and we had somebody who can't actually just this morning who went to drove up themselves drove up themselves three of his friends yeah well that was Kevin from Middleton yeah and got put up by Protestant family it was lovely to hear that because I think it pulls you out of it for a second saying always this what it was in the the 80s and before like no no it's not it's very different and people they're just calling for peace they don't want the fighting they don't want the arguments if you have the Protestants as well as the Catholics telling they are in Georgia just walk down a different road okay it'll surely get to a stage where there's that that's what needs to be discussed peace as opposed to well who's right who's wrong yeah just what do we do to make this who's going to give way they just have to and I do know the appear by the residents of Garvahi road against the ruling is on the way we've got three judges in

1:46:28the court of opinion and Belfast have been asked to rule on the issue the residents will refuse leave to seek a judicial review of the decision last weekend and of course that sparked the protest so instead they have gone to the court of appeal if anything breaks on that before one o'clock we will bring it to you okay what's coming up on the program tomorrow kicking of us to off tomorrow we have heard that the court county council issued no fines for dog waste being picked up in 2025 because dog owners are so good at collecting their dog waste is it shown not quite unfortunately not quite and proving that that's not the truth there was an awful story read this morning detailing a lady who was left visually impaired after she slipped on some dogfelling which is just imagine over not picking up your dog waste you've you've changed somebody's life yeah like horrendous horrendous we're hoping to have a spokesperson from vision Ireland to speak to us on the importance of clean and up after your pets okay there are major customs changes coming into effects from november first including a new European union handling fee so to talk to

1:47:33through all these changes with a very right principal officer in the revenues I mentioned this last week because it's officially coming in in november the had been talks about it but then as soon as we get close to the date somebody realized whoops where this is happening yeah so we're going to hear from revenue themselves yeah absolutely just let people know in advance before you decide to click the button and make the order and what is this going to cost you yeah definitely worth tuning in because I was reading it there myself and there's a good few changes not just the one change and there's very specific things that you need to look out for I remember this also it's I mean I know it's the team who's since the sheen's in china who they're they're aiming it at but of course because of the United Kingdom and Brexit if you buy if and it's also for the states absolutely anywhere side the EU okay we'll talk about that tomorrow yeah following that councillors are accusing Isha Ehrin of turning off the tap on housing developments they're after delaying a white church development scheme and one in cove over infrastructure constraints so councillors are somewhat calling out Isha Ehrin on their actions okay and then we have a

1:48:35loan reporter Paul Bern who took to the streets of cork to find out what people would like to see from this budget okay and then of course with the being Tuesday we'll have Joe Heffan joining us okay all right and of course we'll open the four lines again tomorrow if listeners that I want to let us know what they want in the budget but also with revenue joining if you if you have a question about those new fees that have to be paid on parts that's coming from outside the EU please get your questions in either in to Sean or by text or WhatsApp thank you for that Sean who returns to take your calls now for anilise on 0818103103 at the stake-abraking anilise up next call the trisha with your call that always 18103103 cork today on c103 and earlier there was a message in from somebody saying do they ever find that asian hornets nest that we were talking about on the program last week when I was speaking with the junior minister Christopher Osolva and well I'm delighted to report that I read in the echo

1:49:38today a piece with Amy Campbell who said the asian hornet nest was at locations and that was after major operation by the national parks and wildlife at service it had the nest has safely been removed it was in the ringeskitty area where the team expected it to be because of course two asian hornets had been found in that area there were initially fears that they'd arrived by ship and of course there fears that the species can spread their pose a significant threat to islands biodiversity as the insects these insects cause huge damage to other species but in particular to our honeybee so they had this amazing technology that we heard about when we spoke with the biodeiversity minister Christopher Osolva and how they had a tiny miniature tracking transmission which they attached to the live hornet that enabled them they were able then to track where the hornets went when they went back into the nest and they were able to find the nest it really was incredible so well done and well done to members of the public who actually reported

1:50:43and found the initial asian hornets we all have to be so careful about invasive species like that oh 8103103 let's head to Balancolic to the health hub's health hub store in Times Square and Annelise Dressel joining us a good afternoon channel ease oh I got a press the it's what sorry I'm sorry my father had pressed the line good good good afternoon to you you're welcome okay now let's get straight into some of your questions coming in to us where's the one that I saw okay this one is in from somebody called Sean Sean says which I'm not asking Annelise what is a good supplement to take before during and after a long haul air travel I find says John that I've attended to pick up colds our infections when I fly so he wants to be prepared he's obviously used to do a long haul I want to be prepared for this time round what can you suggest

1:51:47yeah actually that's great that's a great attitude because so many people get up and sick coming over from their holidays as well so they've had their low violid and they come back and they're miserable so yeah definitely when you're in a plane the air is recirculated so if somebody has a virus that's versus being pumped around and everybody's breathing it in so the first thing I would suggest is make sure that you're on your immune supplement like vitamin D but you could up the ante there there's some great ones I love the nature plus immune booster that's got vitamin D vitamin C think it's got NAC it's got selenium it's got about five or six different things in there for really supporting your immune system and that's the nature plus one there's plenty of them in your local health shops they'll have all of those things maybe you might see some of them have elderberry extract or beta glucans so these are all things that will our antiviral will help support your personalign of defense but my favorite thing is the Dr. D. Lich Claire thrills spray which actually has got echinacea in it and it's just so

1:52:51easy to take with you because it's a small little bottle now echinacea is amazing is ramps up your key cells which are the cells that it's kind of like sending in the Marines so the specialized forces they go in afterwards and and but their Marines are the ones who go in full blast at the beginning so echinacea is wonderful for that if you can't get your hands on the Dr. D. Lich Claire thrills spray get echinacea or echinacea tablets and I would kind of give myself a spray every other hour even half hour it's and make sure you're well hydrated on the plane as well the other thing as well Patricia and this goes for everybody at this time of the year we learned this during COVID make sure that you have got kind of sanitizing hand stuff with you because a lot of the viruses are actually transferred by you know people using our coffee and the droplets are so tiny they land on things and they're on door handles so if you're getting up to use the glue or anything like that so make sure you just constantly keep your hands hygiene because you're going to be you know encountering so many different germs on the plane and in an airport with everybody

1:53:55coming and going so the nature plus immune booster fantastic the Dr. Claire thrills spray if you can't get your hands on that just get plain or echinacea and the last thing then is sanitizing spray okay good luck with that John Dennis was called earlier any advice for very itchy skin Dennis says it affects his lower legs the more he scratches the worse he gets he's been to the doctor but the doctor hasn't been able to solve it or get to the bottom of it have you any advice for itchy skin difficult when their Patricia because there's so many things that it could be I don't know if there's a rash or if there is like if is it like psoriasis is it like dermatitis is it just an itch without any type of rash whatsoever so things that typically cause itch in a skin people don't know this but actually one of the one of the major causes is blood pressure tablets they can really cause a lot of itch is uncontrolled itch and that can mostly is itch without a rash

1:55:01so you don't actually see a rash but other medications can cause itch as well so if you're on medications get the little leaflet and look down through all of the side effects because maybe it's one of those and maybe switching your medication to a different version might take care of it the second thing I would say is people using biological washing powder for clothes are even worst culprit is the lab fabric softener so fabric softener is just hundreds of chemicals in a bottle that actually gets into the very fabric of your clothes and roped up against your skin all day so you do not need fabric softener it is like there you know if you want to try and live a chemical less chemical life that's definitely one of the things to ditch and it's one of the biggest factors in exema dermatitis psoriasis in making those very irritated so it's also possibly an allergy to something and that's you know that's a big way to get the bottom of what it is I would suggest there is something there is salchuria do a spray called I think it's called

1:56:06dermis spray there's one for kids called biopsychin junior and they also do a cream and we always get amazing feedback on that so the salchuria dermis spray I would recommend and you can use that it's extremely soothing and if you can stop yourself itching then that you know that that goes a long way to stopping the itch it might cool down the other one that we get great feedback on as well that really works is the doctor clear irritated skin cream there's there's chickweed in it and chamomile and that's very good for the itch and then the last thing I would suggest is going to take an anti histamine over the counter from the doctors and if that takes the itch down for a week then you know that it's an allergy so at least you know that it's something that you're reacting to and then you can start narrowing it down okay Frank is looking for advice for arthritis in these hands is there anything you could suggest you should be eating or drinking that will help to ease it he's especially thinking he's because into the cold among psthia arthritis is going to get worse and have you just getting general advice for tips around arthritis yeah so arthritis

1:57:09generally Patricia as we age we're all going to guess it's wear and tear so in between our joints we have a lovely kind of spongy cartilage that acts as a kind of a shock absorber and that wears away over time so supporting that with supplements can work really well it's not a little slow it down hugely and it really will help but we do you know for if you've got a very physical job or if you do huge amount of exercise obviously that's going to accelerate wear and tear so the ones that the work the best for off are there's two of them one of them is the maconta um joint support there's UC2 cartilage in there and that is a specific cartilage to support joints so that we get great feedback on on that one and then thing I like about the maconta one is that there's also vitamin D and vitamin K in there so it's great if there's osteoarthritis because the D and the K will support bone health as well the second one and this is the one that we probably get the best feed to back on is the one nutrition a joint factor so that one is without a doubt like my mom is on us carries mom

1:58:10is on us here as well we get great feedback on us and then in terms of foods and drinks some people do react to a chemical type of soil annoyed chemicals in the what they call the deadly nightshade family of plants so the deadly nightshades are peratos tomatoes orbergines chilies peppers um decotene and I think I'm leaving out a big one but I can't remember but if you look up the deadly nightshade family uh on the internet and try and avoid those foods that can for some people make a big difference but for the majority people Patricia's just pure wear and tear yeah we just have to say you just have to live with her uh could you add it please suggest is there anything I can do for my husband he's constantly getting a blocked ear so this is caller okay yeah that's an interesting one Patricia um like some people are prone to block tears especially if they're swimmers as well um I don't know if this person is a swimmer so the things that would help very well two things I will mention there one of them is plantago which is lovely herb and it's

1:59:13very very good for ears mucous like kind of block tears ear infections sorriers um and doctor Vogel does a very nice one of those and the second thing that really really works is something called an ear candle because it might be that it's wax that's blocking it it might be you know a mucous block at all so ear candles they're kind of hard to get your head around when you start doing them because basically you're putting a candle in your ear but they're very very good Patricia and they pull out all the wax and you'd be surprised even if you think there isn't much wax in your ears if you actually use those ear candles you'd be amazed um they're wonderful for anybody who's got sore ears or an ear infection they give great warmth and relief so you'll get those they're also extremely relaxing they are it's great yeah absolutely you can go to therapist and they do them for that reason Patricia but you can buy them and you can do them at home everything I've mentioned here now as well by the way if you're it's not even thinking where could I get those things we have them all on the website are people can ring us and we can um we can post them out but any health

2:00:16shops should have all of these so that's where you go go in and they'll be able to give you the advice on how to use the ear candle because we normally print out a little sheet and give it to people with the candles yeah because once you've done it once are you've got somebody to do it for yeah you'll be fine but it's the initial at the initial one of doing it and Michael in Bantry says could Analyze suggest a good anti-fungal face wash please okay that's an interesting one now because I'm not an anti-fungal face wash um generally if you had a fungal infection it would be kind of more scalp dandruffy are you might find you know more kind of thrush like so it's unusual to have an anti-fungal on the face um I would be very careful about putting strong things on your face because you might irritate skin even more so the first thing I would suggest here is maybe have a look at your shampoo because if you're having a reaction to your shampoo that can actually also trickle down onto your skin on your face and your ears particularly as well so maybe switch to a shampoo that doesn't have sodium laurel sulfate in there to say the

2:01:18nature's good brand orctochromas good brand and then a really nice anti-fungal is what they call grapefruit seed extract it's the extract exactly of the grapefruit seeds and it's a great anti-fungal for toenail infections or for oral thrush so you could use that I would be very gentle and I would start putting maybe one or two drops into your usual face wash try and again if you're getting a face wash go for a brand that has got no chemical in it as possible so again arctochrom does a fragrance free sensitive skin face wash that's really really gentle it's the one that I use and you could put a few drops into your hand with that but I would just start very very low because you don't want to burn or damage any sensitive skin on your face okay we'll leave there at a least have a lovely week of a chat next Monday thanks Patrice thanks some alien that's anelize a dressel and anelize a sharp is in Times Square in Balancholic and as always this afternoon anelize will put up on her website all of the items that she has mentioned today so if you want to find out

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