we've all been there you wake up in the morning and you feel dreadful you don't
want to get up and you certainly don't want to go to work
so you could say I'm unwell I'm ill I'm poorly I'm under the weather I'm sick
you could also say I'm feeling unwell or I'm not feeling well I'm feeling poorly
I'm feeling ill I'm feeling sick now I'm feeling sick is a little bit different -
I'm sick if you say I'm sick it suggests that you're poorly or generally unwell
but if you say I'm feeling sick that may suggest that you're feeling nauseous and
might want to vomit or throw up so be aware of that
difference I'm sick in general I'm feeling sick work if you're feeling
really unwell then you may feel that you shouldn't go to work in which case you
would have to call in sick or phone in sick hi
yeah it's Anna I'm not feeling very well today I don't think I can come in
sometimes people pretend to be sick in order to get a day off work this is
called pulling a sickie and it's very naughty I've never done it
ever ever ever let's talk about the symptoms of illness so the signs that
you're sick firstly you might have a pain in your head we call this a
headache or if you have a very serious headache
you call it a migraine oh if you have a pain in your ear we call that
Eirik if you have a pain in your teeth then we call that tooth ache toothache
and if you have toothache you would normally see the dentist not the doctor
other symptoms in your head might be a feeling of dizziness so you might feel
dizzy this is when you feel unbalanced
you might even faint which means you will become unconscious or lose
consciousness lots of people at this time of year suffer with a cold or the
flu and a cold has many typical symptoms like oh hazard he would have got a
tissue oh thank you coughing if when you cough stuff comes up out of your throat
this is called phlegm phlegm and if you go to the doctor with a serious cough
they may ask you what color is your phlegm if you have the flu and you might
have the shivers I just can't stop shaking
some people know that unwell because they have a high temperature this means
that they're very very hot more hot than normal and if you're running a
temperature that's very high you may have a fever this of course can result
in sweating some people feel unwell in an emotional way so they could have mood
swings or feel very very down the word for feeling down is to be depressed if
your mood changes regularly then we might say no mood fluctuates or you have
mood swings you hmm if your muscles tense up really
tight and you're not trying to make them tense then this is called crap so you're
getting muscle cramp and some people talk about getting abdominal cramps when
they get pain in the muscles in their tummy oh I've got terrible cramps
sometimes you might have a problem with flatulence which is also known as wind
or gas part of me oh I don't know where was it coming from
that wasn't me if the gas can't escape via the mouth or the bottom then you may
have trapped wind which can be very uncomfortable and a similar feeling to
trapped wind is to feel bloated if your nose is blocked up and you have a pain
here this is called congested to be congested and people who are congested
tend to sound like this because the air can't pass from the dogs
so this aren't very dazzle and it's very hard to understand what they're saying
with these holidays oh I'm very congested sorry scuse beep so if an area
of your body fills with fluid you'll have swelling so if you twist a joint
the joint might swell so you say to the doctor I have a swollen joint a swollen
knee many people go to the doctor because they get some form of rash and a
rash is unusual coloring spots on the skin sometimes they're itchy sometimes
they are very red and blotchy sometimes it weeps and gives off a discharge this
means that fluid comes out of it talking about fluid you may have to say that
you're bleeding in some way you might be bleeding from your private areas you
might be bleeding from the from the mouth from the ears and when
you bleed you bleed blood one of the most unpleasant symptoms is to have
diarrhea also known as the runs this is when your stools or your poo is very
runny sometimes it's like water it's very very uncomfortable the opposite to
diarrhea is constipation this is when you can't go to the toilet at all maybe
for days and days days days which is very unhealthy so when we're ill what do
we do the first thing we do is look for sympathy we tell the people around us
that we're not feeling very well and hope that they will look after us or
take care of us this means that they will make us tea bring us food and in
the UK we tend to bring grapes when people aren't feeling well and if you're
really poorly someone might renew flowers to cheer you up
a phrase that we often use when giving sympathy is oh dear oh dear it's just a
sympathetic expression oh dear that's not very good oh dear that's not very
nice at all and this is used for everybody men women and children oh dear
I'm sorry to hear you're not well we would also wish the person a speedy
recovery so we'd say I hope you're feeling better soon get well soon
sometimes we might send them a get-well card to wish them receive you recovering
and say that we're thinking about them on the other hand we could be
completely unsympathetic particularly if someone who is a little bit under the
weather is putting it on or laying it on thick these phrases mean that they're
being melodramatic they're making out like their illness is much worse than it
actually is for example one phrase that we sometimes use when we'll ill is ah
I'm dying I'm so ill I'm dying when in fact they only have a cold I
mean come on there is also a phrase in the UK we use
when a man is being melodramatic about his cold and that is the phrase
man flu so if a man has a cold a little bit of a sniffle which means he's got a
runny nose we say you've got man flu have you meaning it's not nearly as bad
as they're making out they're just being melodramatic no I don't think Steve's
coming tonight yeah he's out he's got man flu our packet exactly the next step
if you're not feeling very well is to go to the pharmacy to buy some medicine now
the medicine you can buy at a pharmacy without a prescription from your doctor
is called over-the-counter medicine and these are things like painkillers which
include paracetamol ibuprofen you can also buy anti-inflammatories and
decongestants things like that if you need a stronger painkiller or another
type of medicine like antibiotics to fight off an infection
then you have to see your doctor in the UK we have the family doctor the local
doctor which we call a GP this sounds their general practitioner GP of course
if your illness is serious then you may have to take a trip to the hospital if
it's a real emergency then you may even have to dial 999 and call and ambulance
the ambulance will take you to a and E this stands for accident and emergency
well that concludes this video I hope that none of you are feeling unwell