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Symptoms Of Risky Diseases

This is the bubonic plague

Some common feelings of the bubonic plague were high fever, chills, headache, helplessness, and heartaches. Theses were symptoms that you can also commonly see today with simple colds like fever or headaches. But with these diseases it was a lot worse then a simple headache. I hate head aches as they are now. They throbbed for hours and hours just trying to make it go away and they couldn’t do anything. The best they could do was lay there and moan for help. But no one would help because of fear they would die to! I would leave my best friend sitting there!!! (Sorry Thomas and Jackson) The only way for neighbors to know if the person had died was from the smell of there carcass.

There was also to more plagues that are very, very, very bad but not as bad as the puss and stuff above. I say we forget that for a while. But the other to plagues was the pneumonic plague which has some of the style of symptoms from the Bubonic. Oh and I’ll try my best not to mention that word again. But with the pneumonic plague you had the tendency to start coughing and then you would cough for just a little bit of time and you would eventually start to cough up blood and if you have had that happen. It’s not fun!!!!! You would also kind of feel like you have a very bad case of asthma, with chest pains and shortness of breath. But the third plague you will learn is the septicemia plague. Which you have almost all the same symptoms of the bubonic plague which really stinks because that doesn’t seem like a joyful time to me. (Sorry to all of the weak stomachs for reminding them of the “B” word) But at least there are no black spots! These are all common symptoms of all there diseases in the medieval times.

Unhealthy Or Healthy? Very Unhealthy

There were millions of things that were unhealthy for the villages. First of all there sewage stunk! They had waste flowing through the streets like they were flowers that we see all the time. Sometimes it would over flow onto the actual street were people were walking. Imagine enjoying a walk then having that over flow happen…. Not fun! That also then caused the wells to get polluted. There goes your water. And another terrible thing that happened about the roads were that in the winter they were extremely muddy and in the summer they were very dusty. They were dusty like that one thing that sits in your room and you never touch or mess with.

Some other very unhealthy habits were that there homes or castles were damp and drafty. They would be home to hundreds of mice, rats, flies and fleas! I hate those things. But in the villages and towns they were very smoky and reeked of death. And the way they took care of there self wasn’t very good either. They decided it was an absolute great idea for them to take a bath with sap straight from a tree. The closest thing they were today was using just plain water for it.  We all care about our teeth right? Well they weren’t to bright with this. They used salt or wood ash to get the plaque off. But boys thought it was smart to chew on a twig they found in the woods.

This is a medieval street.

The Diseases And How They Affected Your Body

All right to start this off whoever has read my first paragraph and didn’t like it… DON’T READ THIS! Well once again I’m going to go into even more detail about the nasty bubonic plague. Well with you have all the detail above but there is more disgusting and terrifying stuff. Picture your self back in the 1300 C.E. Well the people then would get black spots on there body. And if they were bad enough they would get puss under the spots and they would burst and ooze out onto you. So while you were sleeping then the black spot might pop and ooze onto the bed and you would get stuck to it on that part if there was enough puss and eventually rip off skin while ripping your arm from the bed. This disease was brought to Europe from Asia by sailors. Another disease that the medieval Europeans suffered through was leprosy. This painful disease would attack you from the inside out. You catch the disease through a cut on the skin or a scab. But it doesn’t attack you there. It goes for your internal organs. So I hope you won't need those if you get it.

Alrite those two disease were not very pretty but theses ones are still bad but not as bad as the ones above. The pneumonic plague is a infectious disease that came into your respitory system. You would die 100% of the time within two days!! It had pains in the chest with a struggle to breath. Kind of like asthma but worse.... alot worse. The septiemic plague is the least common form of a plague, it infected you in the circulatory system. You had a high chance of siezures and tendancy to bleed randomly. It also had aton of things just like the bubonic plague. This disease like the bubonic plague is given to humans through flea bights.

Ways To Catch There Many Diseases

There were tons of ways to catch disease just like there are today. Some of them are still like ways you catch disease today. Well one way they really caught disease was from the drinking water they had. It was very polluted and was filled with parasites.  They also had very bad hygiene which made it very easy for there body to get infected. Now you can understand why your parents want you to shower everyday. They also didn't like to drink as much dairy as they should. Which then kept there immunity on low levels which is not good for your immune system. Another way for you to catch disease was if you had to have surgery on your body that you almost died every time you had surgery! It's either die right after it or you got sick and died.

The one thing that caused tons of sickness and death was that the rats in the villages were caring multiple diseases at once and if you were around one you would be more than likely to get sick. The fleas also carried the disease which then gave it to the nasty rats. But another way to get a disease was from a lymphatic infection. That's were your lymph nodes swell very big. They usually became the size of a egg with the plagues.  Most animals they had could be easily infected with disease and if they got sick and they had to eat them for food, they could get sick from them. So they had to be very careful on what they ate and were around.

More Dumb Then Smart On Diseases

The Medieval Europeans were not very smart on diseases

Some things that they didn't know were that they came from microorganisms and things of that nature. They thought they were from demons or witch's which we all no that that's not true. Those things are in fairy tales. They also believed that God was one who could cause the deadly power of plagues among them. So they would beat them selves in a sign of saying that they are bad and they didn't want that punishment. And by doing that they spread the diseases even farther going from each town which gave any citizen a higher chance of dieing. People also didn't know that diseases could attack you on the outside AND inside of your body. People didn't become educated about these until a long time from then. Like a thousand years.

The did know however that diseases were deadly enough to kill anyone that it wanted to even though they didn't know why. Which they got it from the unhealthy things they did like chewing on a twig or never having good hygiene. They thought that they were very good with that but compared to us today they were no where near us. That's why were aren't sick as often as they are. They had no soap or toothpaste to keep there mouths clean. We are lucky that we aren't like them other way's we would be sick tons of times more unlike we are today. Were usually maybe sick twice a year. They were sick almost double that.