Health, diseases

The health belongs to the most precious thing, but it is very difficult hold your health. The human body is permanently being attacked by many different kinds of bacteria, micro-organisms and viruses. Before most diseases we can protect by prevention.

First of all I’d like describe the human body. The head is the upper part of our body containing the skull, brain, hair, eyes, ears, cheeks, mouth, lips, teeth, tongue and chin. The trunk connect our head with the neck. The arm consist of shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand. Each hand has a palm and 5 fingers. The leg consist of the thigh, knee, calf and food with its heel. All the body is covered by skin and there are lots of bones. Inside the body there are many organs. The most important are the heart and lungs. The others are: liver, stomach and blood.

At the doctor

We visit doctor when we feel ill or if we have any health problem. Medical care of any type in our country is free of charge, although there are now many private doctor. Everybody has a right to choose a doctor.

When we visit the doctor, first of all we enter to the waiting room, which may often be crowded. Then the nurse says “next please” and invited us into the consulting room. She wants to see our insurance card. Doctors asks what the trouble is and then asks us to strip to the waist because he must examine our chest and throat. He can also check our blood pressure, feel the pulse or put our blood or urine through lab test.

Doctor usually prescribes some medicine for us – pills, antibiotics, eye drops, sleeping pill, ointments or he tell us to go on a diet.

Sometimes they may X-ray our lungs or bones.

During our lives we must go though many types of vaccination. For example children are vaccinated against such illnesses as tuberculosis, tetanus, whooping cough, polio and later smallpox.

Now, I’d like tell something about the flu. The main symptoms of flue are headache, sore throat and high temperature, often signs of shivering. If you don’t visit a doctor you should go to the bed and take an aspirin, check your temperature and drink tee with lemon and honey. If you temperature is very high or if the symptoms persist you must call a doctor.

The next specialist is dentists.

Dentists may check our teeth and sometimes pull out or drill and fill them. However, many people afraid of dentists and that is why they don’t respect preventive examinations.

In more serious cases of we get injured we can be taken to hospital by an ambulance. In case of unconsciousness or heart attack the patient is put on a stretcher. Sometimes it is necessary to give first aid such as mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, to stop bleeding or fix fractures.

More serious cases – such as heater attack, appendices, breaking bones, animal or snake bite, severe bleeding, poisoning etc. needs special treatment in the hospital. In the hospital the injured people are examined and X-rayed at a casualty ward. Serious cases are immediately operation. The patient is anaesthetized by means of an injection or inhalation of a narcotic. After the operation is the patient sometimes sent to a health resort. There he undergoes water treatment, takes baths, massage, remedial exercises and drinks the waters.

However, there are fatal illnesses like cancer or AIDS which are incurable so far.