Otázka: Diseases
Jazyk: Angličtina
Přidal(a): Jiťa
Health Importance
- Health is the most valuable thing in the world. We must take care of our health. We can divide diseases into 2 groups: common and serious.
Common diseases include:
- Flu, runny nose, headache, toothache, tonsillitis, cold, cough, sore throat, bronchitis, pneumonia, backache, rabies, concussion, rubella.
- These diseases are very common and almost everybody experiences these diseases at least once in their life.
Serious diseases include:
- Cancer, cholera, leukemia, HIV, constipation, appendicitis, heart attack.
- Some of them are infectious diseases, heart diseases, high blood pressure, nervous diseases such as stress, depression, insomnia, nervous breakdown. Inflammation can occur in bones, teeth, and the appendix. For every type of these diseases, there are special methods of curing. Unfortunately, there are a lot of diseases that can’t be cured. For example: HIV, Crohn’s disease, diabetes, allergies, Alzheimer’s, and some other rare diseases.
- Scientists try to find medicine for these diseases but unfortunately, they haven’t been successful.
Children’s Diseases
- Children often suffer from chickenpox, mumps, measles, scarlet fever. Children are often vaccinated against a lot of diseases.
The Most Common Disease: Flu
- Flu symptoms are: runny nose, high temperature, cough, sore throat, headache, weakness. When we have the flu and we want to cure it, we drink tea with lemon or honey, we stay in bed, sleep a lot, gargle, and relax.
A More Serious Disease: Cancer
- Cancer can attack different parts of the body. Its symptoms are: pain, weakness, lack of appetite, vomiting, nausea, stress. Cancer can be cured by chemotherapy, medicine, radiotherapy, and surgery.
Depression
- Depression is a mental disease which can be very serious. Its symptoms are: headache, insomnia, lack of appetite, aggressiveness, tendency for suicide. People who have depression can be cured by medicine, attending a psychiatrist, attending various types of therapy.
Allergies
- Due to a bad environment, allergies are very common diseases. Its symptoms are: runny nose, red eyes, problems with breathing, rash. People who have allergies take medicine and they try to avoid things that cause problems to them.
Personal Experiences
- What diseases do you remember having?
- My last disease was the flu.
- What is your worst memory of being sick?
- My worst memory is in the hospital when I had appendicitis. It was terrible.
- How do you feel when you are sick and have to stay in bed?
- It’s difficult to say… it’s always different. But when I’m sick and it’s not a serious illness, I feel good because I watch TV and listen to music.
