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My mother told me you got sick "from things in your blood." I figured this must be like dirt and settled on the idea that it must be bread crumbs from toast, since this is the dirt I always got in trouble for. When I went to have my finger pierced for a blood test, I was watching very carefully as the blood went up the little glass tube-- looking for any breadcrumbs in my blood.
crumz
when I was a child, I was poorly quite often and somehow got it into my head that Local Anaesthetic was what your local GP could give you, but General Anaesthetic was when you had to go to the big hospital in town
anthony
When I caught chicken pox, I thought it was down to me eating too much chicken.
Helen
I used to pronounce cattarh as guitar. When I had a cold, I once said can I play with my guitar, where in fact it was cattarh. Dad went red in the face.
Helen
In norwegian, dehydrated is a word directly translated to something like 'out dried' or 'dried out', and I really couldn't figure out how you could get 'dried out' from having diarrhea... after all, it's kinda wet ;o)
Thom, Norway
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When I has a heavy cold, my mum told me that the stuff I was blowing out my nose was called "cattarh". Somehow I got this confused with "guitar" and was convinced I had one inside me that was trying to get out.
Helen (UK)
A boy in my class at school had been absent for a few days. When the teacher asked him why, he said he had a verucca. At the time he also had a sore throat so for ages I thought that a verucca was something like laryngitis.
Mike B. London
I used to think that marching band uniforms were what sick people wore. I don't know where I got that idea from!
I used to believe that if I threw up too hard my brain would explode.
Tammy
If you bit the end of a pen of pencil you would be poisoned by the lead or ink.
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When I was young I went to my father and asked him, if you had to take an Asprin for say a Head Ache, Leg Ache or Tummy Pain, how did it always know exactly where to go to stop the pain
He told me that I just had to tell it before i took it, that i did and guess what, it works !!
Damian Havlin
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When I was young I used to believe for some reason that being asthmatic meant you were born with no lungs.
I read in a book that if you ever swallowed toothbrush bristles then you would get appendicitus!
Amy
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I was told that if you took medicine when you weren't really ill it would make you ill. I used to believe that the medicine would somehow know which illness you were faking and give you that illness. For example if you pretended to have a sore throat and took medicine for that, it would give you a sore throat.
Neil Gilbraith
When I was little, if I ever hurt myself like getting a cut or a graze, my Mum used to ask "is it stinging?" and when I replied "Yes", she'd tell me that that meant "It was getting better". I believed that and would shut up as I thought that meant the pain would stop soon. I still believed it until I had a kid of my own and realised that its just a good way of getting them to stop whinging about it.
ange
when i was a little grandfather told me that if i get wounded like a cut for instance. all the food i ate will come right out from the opening of the wound.
aggie
A friend of mine is afraid of chickens because of her grandmother swinging a live chicken over her head when she had chickenpox. Her grandmother believed it would help the chickenpox to go away.
In elementary school, everyone believed in cooties, and would give eachother "cootie shots". It would go something like "circle, circle, dot dot, now you have a cootie shot". I never really believed in cooties, and I never knew what they were, but I always thought if I didn't have a cootie shot my friends wouldn't talk to me anymore!
Sarah
I used to believe that the shaking done by people with parkinsonīs disease was down to being nervous. Only this belief carried on right up to the 1996 olympics when Mohamed Ali appreared shaking, before lighting the flame. Thanks to my dear friend Daniel for explaining this small detail to me.
The Brazilian one
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When I was a child I had pneumonia, I used to believe that AMONIA was a milder form of pneumonia. I told all my friends at school this.
Marcella Nagle
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