"16. Health care

16.1 General information
- if you want to stay healthy it is important to have a healthy life style
- healthy life style means doing something active in the fresh air, doing sports and walking
- you should eat lots of fruits, vegetables, vitamins, drink mineral water and herbal tea
- you shouldn´t drink alcohol, smoke, have stress and others
- if you want to stay fit you should play ball games, go to fitness centres and relax
- you should sleep enough

16.2 At the doctor´s
- when we feel ill or have any health problem, we usually visit a GP (general practitioner)
- we go there if we have: high temperature, headaches, sickness (nevolnost), cough (kašel), sore throat (rýma), stomachache...
- first of all you enter (vstoupit) in to the waiting room (čekárna)
- the nurse wants to see your insurance card (průkaz pojištěnce) and than invites you to the consulting room (ordinace)
- the doctor usually asks what your problems are, where you feel the pain and if you have a temperature (teplota)
- than he wants you to open your mouth to examine (prozkoumat) the tonsils (mandle)
- he/she listens to your lungs (plíce) and heart
- sometimes he checks your blood pressure (krevní tlak) and feels the pulse (puls)
- if you are ill, he prescribes (předepsat) you medicine (some pills, eye drops, antibiotics...)
- the prescribed medicine (předepsané léky) is available (k dispozici) from the pharmacy (lékárna)
- there is also medicine available without prescription (recept), but this is more expensive
- after some time a check-up is arranged (sjednává se kontrola)

The dentist
- we need to visit the dentist if we have a problem with our teeth
- there should be a regular check-up (pravidelná prohlídka) usually once a year
- he/she can give you fillings (plomby), braces (rovnátka) or pull out (vytrhnout) a tooth

16.3 Diseases
- most frequent diseases (nejčastější nemoci):
 infectious diseases - small-pox (neštovice), jaundice (žloutenka), rabies (vzteklina)...
 children´s diseases - measles (spalničky), chicken pox (plané neštovice), rubella (zarděnky), scarlet fever (spála), whooping cough (černý kašel)...
 heart diseases - heart failure (selhání srdce), heart attack (infarkt)...
 nervous diseases - bad headaches (migréna), neurosis (neuróza), depression, brain stroke (mozková mrtvice)...
 incurable diseases - cancer (rakovina), AIDS, diabetes (cukrovka)...
 other diseases - sun and heat stroke (úpal), high blood pressure, asthma, broken bones, cold, flu, allergy...

Symptoms of diseases
- bleeding, sickness (zvracení), tiredness (únava), lack of appetite (nechutenství), fever (horečka), swelling (opuchnutí), feeling unwell (nevolnost), sore throat (bolesti v krku)...

16.4 Kind of doctors
 general practicioner (GP) - he provides (poskytovat) primary and preventive care (péče)
 a dentist - tooth doctor
 a neurologist - he deals (zabývat se) with the problems of brain and nerves
 a dermatologist - he deals with skin problems
 a cardiologist - he deals with heart diseases (choroba)
 an optometrist - he deals with eye problems"