This Morning's Paddy McGuinness opens up about terrifying health scare that saw him rushed to hospital at 17 years old
The 51-year-old and co-host Alison Hammond, 50, were joined by journalist Rachel Johnson and Gyles Brandreth on Friday's episode of the ITV show.
Alison started the conversation by saying that research has highlighted that doctors should trust parents' gut instinct about their children's health.
This led them all to share their own stories and views on the matter.
Paddy, who has presented the show three times this week while Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard are on half-term, said: 'I don't want to throw shade on doctors and nurses, because they do an amazing job...
'A very similar thing, when I was about 17 I keeled over in agony, I didn't know what it was.
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'I had really bad stomach pains. The doctor came to our house, he said: "Just give him these tablets" and left.'
Paddy's dad decided to take matters into his own hands and took him to seek medical help because he knew his son wasn't well.
He continued: 'It was my dad who went "somethings not right".
'Took me to hospital... Within two hours, I was being operated on, I had a burst ulcer!'
A shocked Rachel asked: 'An ulcer at 17?!'
'Yeah, hereditary,' Paddy told her.
'Unbelievable,' Alison added.
The panel later discussed if they had ever brushed their teeth with their fingers.
Alison pointed out that 12% of people are now doing it.
'I've regularly done it,' Gyles confessed.
He added: 'What I DON'T do is share a toothbrush.
'Unlike my friend.'
Rachel confessed: 'You see that's what I do. I'm feral.
'Rather than using my finger, I would use another tooth brush. I honestly don't care.'
Paddy was disgusted and said: 'Oh no. Oh no.
'I'm all for the finger, but sharing a tooth brush... oh no.'
Alison then went on to tell viewers than ONLY 41% of people brush their teeth once a day.
She said: 'It needs to be twice a day!?' That is a disgrace,' Rachel agreed.
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