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RachaelRoo
Joined: 15 Jul 2005
Location: Anywhere but Ulsan!
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 Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:28 am Post subject: Did you get a UTI when you arrived in Korea? |
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Every girl I meet who has recently arrived here seems to get some kind of urinary tract infection or bladder infection after about a week.
Anyone else notice this? Coincidence, or is there some cause? |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:31 am Post subject: |
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Sleeping with the Korean mafia guys with those weird pointy shoes? |
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 5:02 am Post subject: |
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Possibly not drinking enough water. The flight over is SUPER dehydrating. Always be sure that you carry a bottle of water onto the plane and drink at least a couple of liters.
Ok, ok...if you're only flying from Japan, 500 ml should do it!!  |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:15 am Post subject: |
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| poor diets back home. |
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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:54 am Post subject: |
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| UTIs are caused by bacteria, not by poor diets. But I suspect you knew that and were just trolling. |
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The Man known as The Man
Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Corporal wrote: |
| UTIs are caused by bacteria, not by poor diets. But I suspect you knew that and were just trolling. |
You should have worled the word puerile into this post. |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, sorry about that. |
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indytrucks
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: The Shelf
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Corporal wrote: |
| But I suspect you knew that and were just trolling. |
Yes. |
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vlcupper
Joined: 12 Aug 2004
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 5:32 pm Post subject: Re: Did you get a UTI when you arrived in Korea? |
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| RachaelRoo wrote: |
Every girl I meet who has recently arrived here seems to get some kind of urinary tract infection or bladder infection after about a week.
Anyone else notice this? Coincidence, or is there some cause? |
I got one after I went to a public bathhouse. |
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BigBlackEquus
Joined: 05 Jul 2005
Location: Lotte controls Asia with bad chocolate!
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Give it a few years. The hair on the top of your head will start to fall out. Ever looked at the top of Korean women's heads? They're almost all going bald up there! |
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sheba
Joined: 16 May 2005
Location: Here there and everywhere!
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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| I didnt get a UTI but my skin went crazy for a couple of months! |
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mind_body_and_seoul
Joined: 14 Mar 2005
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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I didn't/haven't ever, but I don't eat spicy food or meat and I drink loads of water. Dunno if that's why. I've always had good skin and after nearly a year in Korea it's still good. I'm glad that all the nasty pollution hasn't made my skin bad (dunno what my lungs are like though, but at least I don't smoke!).
I used to never get sick (like once every 3 years) but I've been sick a few times in Korea (colds, Strep throat), probably from working with little children who get sick all the time and don't wash their hands. The terrible hygiene at the hagwon I used to work at didn't help either. After I'd been there for a few months I got Strep throat for the second time and then I got conjunctivitis (caused by the same Streptococcus bacteria that were hurting my throat)! It was NASTY! My eyes were so red! It was soooooo painful and sooooo awful and I still went to work and all the kids ran away screaming because their usual Barbie doll princess teacher looked like a scary monster. I had it for about a week.  That and my ex-boss are my worst experiences in Korea so far (but I haven't even been here a year yet!). |
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skconqueror
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 12:43 am Post subject: |
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| sheba wrote: |
| I didnt get a UTI but my skin went crazy for a couple of months! |
scabies? |
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sheba
Joined: 16 May 2005
Location: Here there and everywhere!
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| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 4:10 am Post subject: |
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Yea, scabies... that's it.  |
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skconqueror
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
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| sheba wrote: |
| Yea, scabies... that's it. |
I hope that you got some cream for that. It is caused by not washing enough, maybe you should pay more attention to personal hygene. |
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