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[agoodmouse]

Everyone has them here. My doctor even has it. Plenty of my co-workers have it, too. It's very prevalent here.

[rhinocharge64]

Are there. Must be from sharing Soju cups and using the public cups.

[JJJ]

Haven't seen too many cold sores but I have seen a few dozen kids on the street with eye patches on. Just before the break, a whole bunch got some sort of "pink eye" and it spread quickly all over my middle school. And of course, they still come to school and spread it around some more, even when I mentioned to them they should get it looked at.

Lucky the summer came and I got away without catching it. My co-worker told me they had to shut the school down for a week, I believe, two years ago because of this eye disease.

[pootle]

You don't get cold sores from sharing glasses or cups. It's viral and once you have the virus is can flare up at any time, usually when you're tired, run-down, exposed to bright sunlight etc. You get the virus from kissing or from oral sex (it's the herpes simplex virus). You may have got the virus years ago but your circumstances now are causing it to flare up as cold sores.

Pink eye -conjunctivitis - is usually bacterial (can be viral in some cases) and is contagious. You should wash your hands with an anti-bacterial soap, not share towels etc. as it's passed on very easily. Touching something that has the germs on and then touching your eyes is enough for you to get it. Computer keyboards are a playground for this and other bacteria.

I'm not a doctor, by the way, but worked in a public health clinic for some time and staff would get missives about what was contagious or not! Most of our non-medical staff had pink eye at least four times a year from forgetting to wash their hands.

[moosehead]

a lot of children - a LOT don't bathe every day - I think their parents are too cheap and really just don't recognize the necessity

come winter you'll see them wearing their pajamas under their clothes to stay warm - the classrooms will reek sometimes -

hygeine is definitely not a high priority here

[matthews_world]

Are they big and puffy or small dots?

Could be moles from the cigarettes here.

[Dev]

The American teacher I took over from left a couple of bottles of hand sanitizer in her desk. Seems like a good thing to have for the foreign teacher.

I caught pink eye from my students as I was finishing the semester. I think I caught it from shaking hands with my students. Be careful.

[cheeseface]

Herpes....