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Thank you for your e-mail. We can assure you that each sport was devised and thoroughly tested in consultation with a Doctor and a Health and Safety Advisor. The well-being of the housemates is always of paramount concern to both the programme producers and Channel 4.

Please be assured that your complaint has been logged and distributed
throughout Channel 4 for the attention of the series makers.

Thank you again for taking the time to contact us.

Regards,

Jessicka Burton
Channel 4 Viewer Enquiries

So a doctor and a health and safety advisor ok'd something whereby someone receives something akin to a chemical burn?

Whither that bit in the Hippocratic oath, I will do no harm

I missed something somewhere.

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Originally posted by Sticks
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What you missed somewhere is your own lack of expertise. No one is likely to think you better qualified to judge the hazards of a task than a qualified doctor and a Health and Safety Adviser. A nettle sting is "akin to a chemical burn" only in the sense that it makes you go "ouch!". Unlike a chemical burn it isn't a potentially disfiguring thing, and needs no treatment other than a little ointment. After an hour or so it stops stinging, and the visible rash will have gone by the next day. It's harmless.