To ask for a national campaign to stop adults referring to their "tummy"

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Still absolutely fine to talk to children about tummies

But adults need to know that it is never ever ever ever ever ok to say "my tummy hurts"

Ever, ok?

I prefer tummy.

Gut rot gives me the instant rage and don't even get me started on belly.

But a stomach ache isn't in your stomach. It's lower, in the gut. Your stomach is way up at the bottom of your ribs.

Tummy ache is slangy. But stomach ache is wrong!

@Mrsjayy tummy describes the general area, stomach describes an internal organ…tummy is not inaccurate

Tummy time ,Tummy to mummy .

I agree - see also grown-arse adults referring to being ‘poorly’ or having a ‘sniffle’.

Is it belly button?
Tummy button?
Navel?
Stomach button?

Tbh I usually have bowelache I shall continue to stay stomach it's the general vicinity!

Woman at work says poorly sick...she's in her 50's. She also says lickle

And belly is even worse!!!!!!

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The number of people who say "belly" yet also say they're "poorly" 🤢

That makes it more accurate - very few people can discern which organ their pain originates from!

Yes, but only if we can add adults who say ‘boobs’, or refer to their breasts as ‘baps’, ‘jugs’, ‘chesticles’, ‘the girls’ ‘the twins’, or ‘the puppies’.

Poorly is an excellent word.

Some of you may need to sit down - I sometimes have a poorly tummy 😂

Can we also ban 'yummy' and 'nasties' please 🙏

This drives me mad. Stomach is a smallish organ in the upper part of the abdomen. The rest is abdomen divided into 4 quadrants. Upper right and left, lower right and left. Important for telephone consults. Talking about stomach ache when you mean abdominal pain is confusing.

As a woman in my 50s I’d like to distance myself from your colleague as much as possible!

lickle????? 😡

Yes but when you're ringing in sick to work, your manager doesn't need an exact location of the pain! 😁

And if it's a Dr you're talking too, I'd expect them to draw their own conclusions after an examination.

The things people choose to get annoyed over. 🙄🙄

'Tummy to mummy' sounds like an urgent hunger distress call 🤣

I'm with you, OP. It is a revolting, cloying word, when used by adults, unless children are being spoken to, etc.

It is also annoyingly inaccurate - as "tummy" is a childish abbreviation/substitute for stomach, and usually the area described as having a "tummy ache" (barf) is the lower abdomen and nowhere near the stomach.

You would be lucky to get as far as an examination these days. Telephone and online consults are first line, so describing the location of your pain accurately will save time.

Do women with tummies also have hubbies? I suspect so.

Just to give the belly haters nightmares 😂