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Re: My First Experience with Nationalized Health Care

anabolic steroids — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:10:35 -0000

The same incidence happened with me also. Its so irritating.

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menopause symptoms — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:32:26 -0000

Very funny post. Your experience is a unique one. Usually it don't happens like this.

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cancer symptoms — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:07:15 -0000

Its not wrong to have bland drinks and toast in stomach upset..often any kind of infection leads to fever.so it should be dealed carefully.

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First Aid Supplies — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:12:16 -0000

I'd love to hear the experiences of people in other health-care systems

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mpbb — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:36:11 -0000

Good stuff, this article will really help us specially health concerns.

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AramZS — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:10:49 -0000

Heh, they do love their toast in the UK.

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brenda — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:40:12 -0000

thank you for the complement. I think you are terrific also.

you can flatten coke quickly by adding a very small amount of warm water to the coke. We used to recommend falt coke a long time ago but the coke has no salt. You need salt when you are ill and a lot of people here avoid salt. If you use gatorade or powerade the salt is already there.

and toast is pretty much equivalent to crackers

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Steve — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:40:40 -0000

My Mom always fed us slightly Sprite or Ginger Ale if we were ill. The next step was buttered toast and then finally soup and whatnot as we got progressively better. Not as crazy as it sounds.

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Dan — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:18:59 -0000

It isn't quite as crazy as it sounds. Toast is bland, so unlikley to upset an already upset stomach. But it is high in carbohydrates, so will go some way to giving you some kind of energy. If you have more extreme gastro problems, it also works to stop other things to. I'm sure you know what I mean.

I'm sure they actually suggested DRY toast though, as the point is to eat bland stuff that wont make anything worse while you recover.

See, it isn't actually witch craft!

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RachaelDickson — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:11:47 -0000

Lol, Dan- American doctors are only sponsored by Gatorade to the extent which y'all's are sponsored by toast!

Toast! Really? How is that supposed to help me? I bought makings for it and now I've just been staring at it going, what?

Re: My First Experience with Nationalized Health Care

Dan — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:03:57 -0000

Haha this is a very funny read! Are American doctors sponsored by Gatorade?! The suggestion to drink flat coke was actually the same thing though. When you are sick and have a bad stomach you need glucose as it depletes when you dehydrate. The caffine also helps to picks you up a bit. Don't use fizzy coke though as that can irriate your stomach. We just don't really go much for Gatorade and Powerade here...

Seriously though, you didn't get the same attention you would have received if you were a resident here. People are all registered with certain GPs who hold all your medical records, so if you are ill, you go and see him/her. I assume that unless you get very ill, you will be reviewed by a trained nurse and referred to a GP only if its serious. If you need it, you WILL be seen by doctors. £50 seems a bit steep though.

Hope you get better soon!

P.S. 37.8°C is 100.3°F :)