Weird Foreign Diseases I have never had or heard of anyone in this country having

[Pruni]

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I know someone who got strep throat. More than once. Don't know what the other one is though.

are you bored dear?

Think Strep throat over here is often diagnosed as tonsillitis. Definitely exists otherwise you wouldn't have cases of Scarlet fever which is related.

I've always wondered what Mono is, I suspect it's the American word for flu or some other common virus as they often mention it on American hospital dramas but I've never heard of anyone in the UK having it.

Mono is glandular fever

There are some ailments I heard about when I got here that I'd not come across outside of life in developing nations .

Mono is glandular fever.

Strep is tonsilitis.

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they just like bandying about medical terms more pruni

I don't think we have sciatica in North America. And I've met a Brit with pleurisy. Still don't know what that is.

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I have no idea what strep throat is honestly, and she had quite a few infections at the same time for a long time that kept flaring up. Apparently something to do with strepptococus (sp?). I know at one point one of her problems was that half her face was swollen up, but no idea what that was linked to.

Pleurisy is when your lungs fill with fluid usually a secondary infection after flu or something. Very painful and potentially fatal.

pleurisy's a sort of chest infection - makes breathing painful. I always think it's one of those illnesses that sounds like it should belong in the past with things like the Plague.

crise de foie is that a roman catholic thing? like stopping going?

Oh, believe me, my poor sister had sciatica in N. America w/her second pregnancy and it was BAD.

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I had pleurisy in N. America, too, as a complication of the lung infection pneumonia, which was a complication of influenza.

You have colorectal consultants here, Pruni.

Same thing.

billiousness

I've had pleurisy NQC, it's inflamation of the lung membrane and it hurts like hell, people usually get it as a complication of something else like flu.

I'm surprised that mono is glandular fever, I would never have guessed that. I thought it was something more common and less serious, perhaps it is more common in the States.

I'm sure you have proctologists! You must, for all the prostate problems!

But yeah, in Canada, anyway, we're a lot less GP-focussed. You normally have a pediatrician for your children, much as you normally have an obstetrician for your pregnancy.

I do prefer the English way.

And I stand corrected re: sciatica.

The French are weird about medical stuff, aren't they, between crise de foie type stuff. And they treat babies for snuffly colds.

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do people still have rheumatic fever

A urologist deals w/prostate issues.

My dad has them. He has a good urologist, too .