[Matters 23] In Germany, what to do when you are sick?

Although the epidemic situation has slowed down, the house fish and cat have been staying at home recently. The reason why I stay at home is partly because the weather has become super cold (the sun is still -2 degrees in the morning, and the snow on the roof is illuminated by the sun, and it still does not melt!) and it is also because of the plan. In addition, although the epidemic has slowed down, I still have the mentality of not going out when I have nothing to do, and I insist on concentrating everything on one day when I go out.

Not having to go out is a great thing for me. Although sometimes I still feel anxious about my state, I am actually grateful for the convenience of being "hidden in the city" in modern society. But the matter of "hidden in the city" is another story. What I want to share today is: what to do if you get sick in Germany.

Aside from the embarrassing situation from last year to this year, in Germany, you really don't want to be sick! Although Germany has compulsory medical insurance (take students as an example, medical insurance must be attached when applying for a visa before they can be released to Germany...), but in my own experience, the German medical method really tests the patient's immunity. !

In Germany, from 2017 to 2019, I had two illnesses (one cold and one flu), and one because of pain near the ribs, so I went to the hospital four times in total (one for cold and flu, and one for the rib). twice).

Among them, I think the most representative is the flu! At the beginning, because my Spanish friend was seriously ill, she said that she was dying in the dormitory, and asked me if I could bring some meat for her to eat during lunch (actually, her dormitory is behind the cafeteria, but she was really very ill, so she didn't know what to do. It’s rare to ask me for help) I was in the library at the time, thinking that it was very close to the school canteen, and I had to go to lunch with other friends, so it wouldn’t be too troublesome to have it delivered.

Unexpectedly, I just went to deliver the food, and then because she was afraid of infecting me, the two of us spoke at a distance. The point is, after we met, we only said two sentences - really only two sentences: I said, "Here's to you, after the money it's all right." (extending her hand to her) She said "Okay, Thank you! Hurry up, I don't want to pass it on to you." (extended his hand to take the food) After leaving her dormitory, she was fine in the afternoon and at night, but she felt uncomfortable in the middle of the night. Well, I won the bid.

Because it was so uncomfortable, I asked for leave the next day (by the way, in Germany, it is a "public nuisance" to go out if you are sick! So here's the practice: if you are a student or an employee who is sick, you must tell your professor or boss as soon as possible. Say, and then absolutely, right, no, want, go, public, public, place, place! Otherwise, you will be regarded as someone who has no public morality.) When you wake up in the middle of the night and find that you can't, write a letter quickly, drink hot water, and then wait This morning, I found a small clinic near my home, made a call to confirm that it was open, and went to the scene to wait.

Unexpectedly, after going to the hospital to fill out the form and waiting for a while, the doctor finally showed up. After checking up and down, he opened a sheet and said to me, "Come on, take it, this will be your leave certificate." At that time, I was already dizzy. I felt cold wearing my coat in the small waiting room with heating on, but when I was outside the small clinic, I felt hot when the cold wind blew my face. As a result, I received the certificate, and it took me two steps to walk out of the small clinic. Think, ah X, drug Danle?

When I went back and asked, the counter said no, and reminded: "You have to stay at home and don't go out, you must wear a mask when you go out, and if you are really uncomfortable, you can go to the pharmacy to buy some vitamins and drink more tea. And hot water~” The doctor and the nurse at the counter are super friendly uncles and aunts, but this is the first time I met a doctor who sees a cold department like a psychiatrist. Is it because I fainted? But German doctors really replaced "treatment" with "talk therapy"...

Because I was really sick at the time, I washed my hands, washed my face, changed clothes and died on the bed after I climbed home. It felt like I was lying on the bed with the flu, because my muscles were super sore, and my phlegm and snot were thick green. (A long, long time ago, probably in 2012, when I had the flu in Taiwan, the doctor in Taiwan said after the test, "You must take the medicine obediently! Don't seek death." That's what he told me]) As a result, here in Germany it is easy to let people kill themselves.

Since I didn’t need to go to class when I was sick for a week and a half, I basically slept most of the time for the first two days. After waking up, I would drink water, take a bath, and then eat something to reluctantly replenish my strength, and then I brushed my teeth and went back to sleep. . On the third day, it was finally better (more sleep is worse), so I went to the nearby supermarket to buy food, tea bags and vitamins. Of course, in order to avoid becoming a public nuisance, I always wore a mask, but at that time Germany did not have it. The concept of wearing a mask to prevent epidemics, as long as you see people with masks coming and going, you can see people automatically spread out with the mask people as the center. (This is why Europeans were so opposed to wearing masks at the beginning of this epidemic, because those who wear masks are equivalent to carrying pathogens! But it is precisely because of this idea that many people resist going to the hospital, even if they are sick. I don’t want to go to the doctor, and I don’t have to stay at home or wear a mask when I go to the doctor. When I was well, I went to the library and found that many of my classmates had a severe cough with phlegm, but they insisted on staying in the library to study. Also don't wear a mask...)

However, although the hospital did not give anything at that time, and only issued a fake order so that people could report to the professors, I have to say that it was only from this time that I discovered that the various efficacy teas sold by German drugstores were really a bit of a mystery. Use (although I suspect the hot water may also have some credit)

Because after drinking three cups of tea in the morning, noon and evening, my nose has really improved a lot, so although I was still very tired after a week and a half, I still dragged my body back to school.

So let me share a few photos of the tea that saved my life:

At that time, when I had a cold, most of them drank the upper left Erkältungs Tee. Although the smell of grass is very strong, drinking three glasses a day really feels like "washing" the virus out of the body. It has been kept in the rental closet ever since.

This is for nasal congestion, so let's support it as Atemfrei tea. This tea is more grassy than the one above, and frankly, sometimes it works, and sometimes it's faster to eat throat lozenges.

It is used to get rid of nervous tension, and it is directly brewed with tea powder, not tea bags.

Because I don’t often have insomnia, even if I have insomnia, I don’t want to get out of bed to make tea (it’s more troublesome to get up and go to the toilet after waiting), so I drank it a few times when I didn’t want to drink plain water, let the water smell like tea and drink it. Maybe the amount of drinking is very small, so I don't think it has much effect.

The word Menstruations really means period! Clearly tell people to drink it during their period!

I didn't know this kind of tea existed at first, but I discovered it after being introduced by someone in the great alumni association. As one of the menstrual headache sufferers, this tea is really effective, and because of the addition of chamomile, the taste is also very good.

What I find most surprising in menstrual teas is the word "Frauenmantel", which refers to the genus Capuchin.

Wait, why does it sound like a Harry Potter plant?

In short, the above teas are really effective, but I have been sick twice, and I really think that you should never get sick in Germany. Because my experience is that even if it is the flu, there is no medicine to take, and you can only rely on your own resistance to heal slowly.

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After being ill at that time, I deeply realized the feeling that my Spanish friend said that she was dying. After experiencing it myself, I felt that I was really dying. After the two of us fell ill, she later bought a notebook to "apology" when we went out on a trip, and still maintains a friendship. It's a kind of life and death relationship: )

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