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The worst illness you have had whilst in Indo?
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Nabby Adams



Joined: 08 Feb 2008
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Gav that is such an excellent way to descibe the UK. Is it your own words or something that's being banded about the Uk these days?

Totally agree with the lure of melting chocolate. I wonder how many old and pensioned ex Indo tefler's there will be hacking up their bronchitial guts up around the world in years to come wondering if those few years of pleasure were worth the exchange!

Put me down as one of them.
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malu



Joined: 22 Apr 2007
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Location: Sunny Java
PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Atoms for Peace wrote:


Asking medical students I teach doesn't seem to help - one told me it's wind entering the body through the skin...

By the way, if everybody is terrified of "masuk angin", why is "oxygenated water" so popular?


Folklore is incredibly persistent. I teach science in English and my senior students can all draw you a detailed cross section of human skin and wibble on for pages about how the skin effectively keeps the outside out and the inside in, then they put on these silly PVC rompi vests so that they won't get masuk angin riding home on their motorbikes...

I once had a nasty episode of pneumonia (quickly cured by antibiotics). The X-ray clearly showed the infected area, there was no doubt at all that it was a bacterial infection, yet the so-called 'specialist' was still going on about masuk angin as he wrote the antibiotic prescription.

Perhaps he didn't realise that it is quite normal for angin to masuk the lungs in a live human...
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