Minor ailments


  • Insignificant health problems
  • Inconvenient symptoms of ill-health
  • Short-term health complaints
  • Sundry body lesions and malfunctions
  • Minor health mishaps
  • Trivial maladies
  • Small bodily afflictions
  • Incidental illness

Incidence

Basically healthy people are not necessarily immune to minor ailments. For example, a 1984 survey of 2,000 adults and 500 children in the USA shows that the average American develops a minor health problem as often as once every three days. In the average two weeks, 28% complained of overweight problems, the number one cause of anxiety. Equal second were indigestion and muscle aches, which each afflicted 25% of those surveyed. Next came eye problems (22%), minor fatigue (20%), and minor cuts and the common cold (both 19%).

Value


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