A series of coughs came from inside the house, and the housewife was somewhat worried.
It was her son, who had been coughing continuously for about a week.
She had taken him to a nearby hospital, but the doctor had found nothing wrong. He had no cold and no fever, only a persistent dry cough.
They had even used some advanced medical equipment to assist with the diagnosis, such as X-rays, but nothing abnormal had been found.
In the end, the doctor concluded that the young man's cough was caused by allergies or a psychological issue.
Federation citizens were strange. Almost everyone was allergic to something, and the symptoms of their allergies could be... intense, even fatal.
Over the past several years, many people had died every year from allergies to peanuts, dairy products, vegetables, or certain types of pollen.
This had also led to processed foods in the Federation being required to list ingredients that might cause allergies, such as peanuts, even specifying exactly how many peanuts or how many grams were included.
Aside from that, Federation citizens were also extremely psychologically fragile. Almost everyone suffered from mental illness, and it was very easy for them to attribute their own problems to psychological issues.
For example, when they were tired of eating a certain food but unwilling to admit that the problem lay with them, they would say that they had a fear of the food. That was a psychological illness, not that they simply did not want to eat it.
In addition, many symptoms that doctors could not explain were also considered allergies or psychological issues, such as constantly coughing, hiccupping, or farting.
Yes, even unexplained, constant farting was considered the result of allergies or a psychological illness.
Just like the young man now—he was constantly coughing, and