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Allergies

Allergies English, baby! Video Lesson

Date: Aug 07 2007

Themes: Health

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Bless you! Goodness, your eyes are red and glossy, and you sure look sleepy. Oh, it’s that time of year, isn’t it? I haven’t seen the pollen counts, but I’m sure they’re up there. I’m so glad I don’t have seasonal allergies. You look like a mess!

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Kevin

Kevin

Beren

Beren

Kevin:  Achoo!

Beren:  Are you okay?

Kevin:  Um, yeah, I’m okay. You know, I don’t have allergies but sometimes I wonder if I do. Like in the morning, I’ll wake up and my nose will run and run and run and then it won’t go away.

Beren:  Scratchy throat?

Kevin:  No.

Beren:  No scratchy throat?

Kevin:  No.

Beren:  Do you ever feel like you might be getting a cold and then nothing happens?

Kevin:  From time to time but seldom.

Beren:  That’s allergies. That’s like hay fever.

Kevin:  Really?

Beren:  Yeah, I’m serious. It’s not good.

Kevin:  So are you an allergy expert, do you have them?

Beren:  I wouldn’t call myself an expert, but I do have crazy allergies. Mostly like grasses, I just get really bad hay fever.

Kevin:  Oh that stinks.

Beren:  Yeah it totally sucks.

Kevin:  What do you take for that?

Beren:  Um, right now I’m taking Benadryl. I’ve taken Flonase, which is this awesome nasal spray. It kind of burns but it also feels kinda neat.

Kevin:  With the bee on the commercials?

Beren:  Is that the Flonase commercial?

Kevin:  I think so, like the bumble bee.

Beren:  Maybe. I’ve taken Claritin, lots of prescription strength stuff. I’m working on weaning myself off that and going all natural.

 

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Discussion

Kevin sneezes and then tells Beren that sometimes he thinks he has allergies. Sometimes he wakes up in the morning with a runny nose. Beren asks if his throat feels funny and he says no. Although occasionally he feels like he might be getting sick even when he’s not. Beren says that that’s hay fever.

Kevin asks Beren how she knows so much about allergies. She’s not an expert exactly, but she says her allergies are pretty bad. She lists a series of prescription drugs she has tried to alleviate them. She says she’s trying to transition from the drugs to natural medicine.

 

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muhammed ameen

India

i have the same pblm like sneezing and scraching throt but never run my nose it comes block and feel the headweigt something like tht..

06:05 AM Aug 07 2007 |

xyhconny

Albania

how to understand allergies

02:55 AM Aug 07 2007 |

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