Person On TikTok Shares “Things In The Netherlands That Would Nearly Put North Americans Into A Coma” (12 Stories)

I'd move to the Netherlands just for the black licorice.

This is not a picture of the Netherlands. We're too cool to wear helmet on our bikes.

I live in a dog friendly state that allows dogs everywhere. It's the only thing I like about it.

Strep is a bacterial infection, so unless the tea is moldy, it's not going to cure strep.

There is a notion that in many countries the person is treated. Pills will in part be given, because the person will feel heard and will feel taken care off. In the Netherlands, the focus is on treating the problem. Every medicine has side effects, so unless it is absolutely necessary the preference is to let your body recover by itself. The tea and ginger in this case is the doctor's small concession to make you more comfortable and make you somewhat feel heard.

That's f*****g dumb as f**k, frankly. I've only had strep once in my life, that I can remember. I didn't have an unmanageable sore throat, but it (and other irritating symptoms) wouldn't go away. A few weeks later I learned it was strep and was put on antibiotics. It bothers me thinking about how long I put it off because at this time I was working in retail and could have easily gotten somebody with a compromised immune system ill. I just didn't realize what it was. Further back, I woke up with a sore throat assuming it would go away only to have a 104 fever by the afternoon. I'll never forget how much I regretted looking at my throat. It literally took a week took to kill the fever. I would love to visit the Netherlands as well as Germany, and God knows American health care is screwed up, but thank God I was given antibiotics right away and not some goddamn herbs. Apologies. I curse like a sailor.

You will get perscribed antibiotics for a bacterial infection, no capable doctor would suggest tea. That said, the Dutch doctors are relatively reluctant in perscribing medication overall if they think lifestyle changes can also help. Not with infections, though.

Wow that’s a little extreme. It’s nice that they don’t force unnecessary pills on you but some ailments require medication and without them can go from bad to worse

If it was actually strep throat, no doctor in The Netherlands (anywhere?) would prescribe ginger and mint tea. It is only cured with antibiotics.

My uncle died of tonsil cancer. TONSIL. A thing so innocuous that if, in the US, it starts giving someone too much trouble, we just take out. He went through chemo, radiation, lost the bones of his jaw, they took his fibula, both of them, and attempted to make him a jaw, but his mandible crumbled when they tried to screw it in. He was intubated for over a month, got pneumonia, finally got over that and got home. Was home for less than a week, choked on some tenacious sputum and his weakened heart couldn't take the strain of the lack of oxygen. My dad gave him CPR until the ambulance came, but he passed away. All because of lymph nodes that turned cancerous. I will take my Western medicine, thank you. There is a time and place for hot tea and salves, and for me that's as an adjunct to antibiotic therapy when it's warranted. By the way...I work in the Healthcare field, if it matters.

It's why the US is a joke when it comes to over-prescribing antibiotics. If you have MRSA, a type of staph infection resistant to antibiotics that is in your nose, we prescribe more antibiotics. Most other places will have you use a dilated tea tree oil nasal spray.

Tbh, a lot of people go to the doctor before they should. My mom can literally cure anything with her herb cabinet. She treated our strep throat with oregano oil (and it worked).

Yeah. Makes me feel old.

I would also like to know what that means, explanation please?

Complete nonsense.

Please explain. Does it land on a shelf so you can poke and prod it before flushing it away?

A small observation, but I have found people who behave like this will also chase you down the street if they over charge you by a tiny amount. Some people just like to be exact, and that is more prevalent in certain communities - but it's not the same as stingy (not that anyone here was saying that)

What's wrong with being honest ?

Mandatory in Canada. I knew a girl who was hit by a car, got flown 7 feet in the air and landed her head on the edge of the curb. Her head would've been smashed in if she didn't wear a helmet. It was way back in 1994-ish, made it to local news and she became an advocate for helmets while biking, doing school assembly talks.

How hard is it to find a picture of bicycles in the Netherlands to illustrate the story? This one is from New York.