{"id":3152,"date":"2016-09-15T14:45:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T06:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2016-09-15T18:36:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T10:36:43","slug":"common-filipino-medical-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/2016\/09\/15\/common-filipino-medical-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Filipino Medical Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re almost done with the wet season, yet it\u2019s not the time to relax about your health. People may still come down with lagnat <\/em>or go to work even if they have sipon<\/em>. Other times, you\u2019ll hear them say \u201cNgalay na ako\u201d <\/em>or \u201cMasakit ang likod ko\u201d<\/em> after sitting in the office all day long.<\/span><\/p>\n

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PAY A VISIT TO YOUR ‘MANGGAGAMOT’ REGULARLY. It\u2019s near the end of the wet season, but that doesn\u2019t mean we can relax about our health. (Image from healthway.com.ph via <\/em>Positively Filipino<\/em><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

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To make sense of all of these, here are a few medical terms to help you out (including the ones we just mentioned):<\/span><\/p>\n

Ngalay<\/strong> \u2013 numb.<\/em> Often felt by our more senior associates, it also occurs in the younger generation if they\u2019ve been stuck in one position for too long.<\/span><\/p>\n

Masakit<\/strong> \u2013 painful.<\/em> Again, this one\u2019s self explanatory. It\u2019s not to be confused with<\/span><\/p>\n

May sakit<\/strong> \u2013 is ill.<\/em> It\u2019s what we Filipinos say when we\u2019re sick, regardless if we know what it is or not. Oftentimes, we go to our<\/span><\/p>\n

Doktor\/Duktor\/Manggagamot<\/em> <\/strong>\u2013 doctor <\/em>for a check-up. After that, we get a<\/span><\/p>\n

Reseta <\/strong>\u2013 medical prescription.<\/em> This, of course, contains a list of<\/span><\/p>\n

Gamot \u2013 <\/strong>medicine<\/em> we will take for whatever illness we may have, the most common of which is<\/span><\/p>\n

Trangkaso <\/strong>\u2013 flu<\/em>, especially if you work long hours outdoors where conditions can change so quick you won\u2019t have time to blink. It\u2019s symptoms are often a combination of body pains with<\/span><\/p>\n

Lagnat<\/strong> \u2013 fever<\/em>. This one\u2019s simple enough to understand. It\u2019s often accompanied by<\/span><\/p>\n

Sipon <\/strong>\u2013 colds<\/em>. A common wet season sickness, people often choose to go to work even if they have a cold. They usually carrying a pack of tissues to wipe off their<\/span><\/p>\n

Uhog \u2013 <\/strong>running phlegm<\/em>. Inuuhog,<\/em> on the other hand, is the term we Filipinos use for a runny nose, and its \u201cbrother\u201d is<\/span><\/p>\n

Ubo \u2013 <\/strong>cough<\/em>. No need to explain this one, right?<\/span><\/p>\n

Arm yourselves with these terms so that next time your Filipino friend says \u201cMay sakit ako, eh\u201d you can ask them \u201cAnong sakit mo?\u201d followed by \u201cGusto mo dalhin na kita sa manggagamot?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source: <\/em>Tagalog Lang<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Fil Am I Am<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Tagalog Terminologies<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you have ‘lagnat’ that’s why you can’t go to work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3162,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions\/3162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}