Tuesday 31 August 2010

Medical & Vocabulary : Heat Rash and Bug Bites


Ever since I went running in one Friday morning under hot sun, I have given myself something to worry about, and that is called "heat rash", something that babies get on their bottoms. It is not a serious medical condition of course, but the itch can be really irritating.

The first thing I did was to go online and look for cure ......




That didn't work so well, and so eventually, I went to search for a few more videos and tried them all out before I went to see a doctor for some real meds. I got some corticosteroid cream and that works wonders.

But before I saw the doctor, I had suspected my rash to be bed bugs bites, especially from the mites, and from that suspicion I found something really scary......

Mite
Image from Wikipedia.org



Sleep tight!

Vocabulary:
work wonders -- (idiom) to produce very good effects

Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rash#cite_note-0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corticosteroid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2J_i4t8i5s&playnext=1&videos=4cy-scfehRE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wASAgxNW-tU&playnext=1&videos=r27MlGkAqgg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mite

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/work-wonders-miracles#work-wonders-miracles__1