What do you say when your abdomen is upset?

[Locut0s]

As someone who has grown up speaking some Chinese I'm sometimes made aware of the subtle day to day differences between languages. Got a bad stomach ache right now, but it's not my stomach it's my abdomen (well more like my intestines). But in English we don't really make much of a distinction usually do we? I know some people say tummy ache, but that to me could mean stomach or intestinal. In Chinese and probably many other languages you have two distinct words you use for stomach and abdomen/intestinal. If you're abdomen is upset you say so and there is no mistaking you might mean you stomach, and visa versa.

[struggle4progress]

1. Gesundheit maybe? I could be wrong: my Chinese is pretty rusty

and by "pretty rusty" I mean "I don't know any Chinese"

[rug]

2. "There, there. Have some pudding."

[IrishAyes]

3. For me at least, if I'm feeling that bad, language niceties fly out the window.

In normal health I can be a pesky perfectionist re language, so I have to try to make up for it when I'm sick.

[Cadfael]

4. I usually call it a belly ache

[HipChick]

5. I say I got Gut Rot..

and have some Ginger Tea..

[Locut0s]

6. Gut rot is a good one lol...

And ginger tea really is good for upset stomachs / guts. I make it often.

[HipChick]

8. It's British...

They have the best sayings..

[loli phabay]

7. fffffffffaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrtrrrttttttttttttttt..... ah relief.

[pinboy3niner]

9. Reminds me of a Vietnamese idiom

A Vietnamese friend once taught me a phrase meaning "I know what you're thinking."

The literal translation, he told me, is "I walk in your stomach with my wooden shoes."