'Jeremy Kyle's Emergency Room' Aired A Giant Testicle Examination At Lunchtime And Viewers Were Put Off Their Food
Jeremy Kyle Viewers Put Off Their Lunch With Giant Testicle Examination
Ashley Percival— The Huffington Post UK
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Jeremy Kyle
ITV
Jeremy Kyle has dealt with paternity disputes and lie detector results for more than 10 years on his chat show, but he was faced with something pretty different on his other programme ‘Emergency Room’ on Monday (7 March).
The ITV presenter came face to face with a giant testicle, as one patient came to the TV clinic with a rather intimate complaint.
WARNING: Graphic pictures below
Much like Channel 4’s ‘Embarrassing Bodies’, the show customarily sees Jezza and a team of medics tackling the unusual health problems of members of the public.
Denis asked for the help after a series of antibiotics prescribed by his GP had failed to reduce the swelling on his enlarged testes, which had caused his scrotum to become the size of a grapefruit.
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Denis' scrotum had swelled to the size of a grapefruit
Jeremy was left aghast at the man’s plight, asking: “How on earth do you do anything? Can you walk?”
Viewers were also left pretty shocked when the programme aired a detailed examination, just as many people were tucking into their lunch.
Denis revealed that he had been living with the condition for over a month, and that the swelling would sometimes "pop" and go back to normal, before increasing in size again.
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Denis had been suffering from a hydrocele
An ultrasound then revealed that he had been suffering with a hydrocele, which is a painless buildup of fluid around a testicle that causes the scrotum to swell.
‘Jeremy Kyle’s Emergency Room’ airs weekdays at 2pm on ITV.
Symptoms Of Testicular Cancer
A lump in the testicle(01 of05)
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The most common symptom of a testicular cancer is a lump or swelling in part of one testicle. It can be as small as a pea or it may be much larger.Remember that most testicular lumps are NOT cancer. At a testicular clinic at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, only 76 cancers were found out of 2,000 men seen with a testicular lump. This means that fewer than 4 in every 100 testicular lumps (4%) are cancer (figures courtesy of Mr Mike Wallace, FRCS).
Lymph glands(02 of05)
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Sometimes testicular cancer cells can spread into lymph glands at the back of the abdomen. This can cause backache, which is usually constant and you need to take painkillers. If testicular cancer has spread, there may be lumps in other parts of the body, such as around the collarbone, or in the neck. These lumps are lymph glands that contain cancer cells.
Hormones in the blood(03 of05)
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Many testicular cancers make hormones that can be detected in blood tests. Doctors call these hormones markers. There is more about this in our section about diagnosing testicular cancer. Occasionally, men with testicular cancer have tender or swollen breasts because of these hormones.
A heavy scrotum(04 of05)
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Your scrotum may feel heavy. Your GP may shine a strong light through your testicle. If you have a fluid filled cyst (called a hydrocoele) rather than a cancer, the light will show through. A cancer is a solid lump and the light can't pass through it. Your doctor may call this test transillumination.
Discomfort or pain(05 of05)
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Testicular cancer is not usually painful, but about 1 in 5 men (20%) have a sharp pain in the scrotum as a first symptom. Some men may have a dull ache in- The affected testicle- Their lower abdomen