After nearly a decade living in the UK, Erin settled in Heidelberg, Germany with her husband and son. If someone says to you: ‘You look a little green about the gills this morning’ they are usually saying they know you are hungover, or at least feeling a bit sick to your stomach.Įrin McGann is a Canadian freelance writer focusing on travel, living abroad, parenting, history, and culture. I am feeling a little sensitive this morning.Some good phrases for describing how you feel include: ![]() With beer.Īlthough recently in Germany the courts have ruled that being hungover is an illness, generally when you have had too much to drink at a party the night before and then feel horrible the next morning, most people will not be very sympathetic. They know a lot about medicine, so if you feel like you have a bad cold, it’s worth going to a pharmacy and asking them for something to make you feel better. You will get a piece of paper from the doctor called a ‘ prescription’, which you take to the ‘ pharmacist’.Ī pharmacist is a person trained in making and giving medicines, so they might ask you if you are taking any other medicine when you go to get your pills. Antibiotics come in little packages called ‘ pills’. We’ve only had the ability to make antibiotics for about 100 years, and these infections used to be very serious. The doctor will give you what is called antibiotics, medicine that will fight the infection. This can happen inside your body too, like in your lungs. If you’ve cut yourself, and then maybe ignored it hoping it would go away, and it didn’t but got red, hot and painful, this is an infection. If you’ve been sick for more than a month, you might have something other than ‘ a virus’, called a bacterial infection. Young children get several vaccines to help them fight off diseases, and sometimes these injections are called ‘shots’.Ĭhoose your plan Do you have a virus or sickness? You can get an injection from your doctor called a vaccine, which gives your body the tools to fight off certain viruses. I had the flu last winter, and trust me, there is no confusing it with anything else.Ī cold or flu is a virus we can’t take any medicine to get rid of, but you can take some pills to make it feel a bit better while our bodies fight it off. Your temperature will be unusually high (having a fever), and you will get shaky. ![]() If you have ‘ the flu’, you will know it. This is a sickness, and although you may also feel cold when you have a cold, these are two different things. If you feel a bit of pain all over your body, and you have to blow your nose a lot, you probably have ‘ a cold’. However, if your head is the part that hurts, you have a ‘ headache’ – there is no being sick to your head. ![]() If you are bent over the toilet and vomiting up your lunch, you are ‘ sick to your stomach’. It’s more polite to say: ‘I’m feeling under the weather,’ than it is to just say: ‘I have a cold’.
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