YOUR HEALTH: HERE'S HOW
Stafford, Jane
YOUR HEALTH: Here's How By JANE STAFFORD THE SEASON for polio—short for poliomyelitis or infantile paralysis—is at hand, No means of preventing or curing this disease is known. However, of the...
...4. If possible avoid tonsil and adenoid operations during epidemics...
...5. Use the purest milk and water you can...
...Keep flies away from food...
...Careful study has shown that such operations, when done during an epidemic, tend to increase the danger of contracting infantile paralysis in its most serious form...
...8. Avoid all unnecessary contact with persons with any illness suspicious of infantile paralysis...
...Changes in heart action appeared on electrocardiograms, basal metabolic rate increased, and the temperature of toes and fingers decreased after smoking two standard cigarettes...
...However, of the many who get the virus of this disease, few develop serious illness, and with good care the majority who are stricken make a satisfactory recovery...
...After smoking two standard cigarettes the pulse rate increased, on the average, by 36 beats a minute...
...The National Foundation advises also that you observe the following simple precautions: 1. Avoid overtiring and extreme fatigue from strenuous exercise...
...Sel-man A. Waksman and Dr...
...In the case of artery injury, the scientists point out, segmental spasm of the artery is common and the constriction of blood vessels that cigarette smoking may cause in a person sensitive to tobacco may cause "irreparable damage...
...Studies pointing to this are reported by Dr...
...Smoking of standard cigarettes should also be avoided, they warn, by patients with disease of the small blood vessels lying near the surface of the body...
...If there is an outbreak of the disease this Summer, be alert to any signs of illness, especially in children, such as stomach upsets with vomiting, constipation, diarrhea, severe headache, or signs of a cold and fever...
...H. B. Woodruff, of Rutgers "University and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station...
...7. Maintain community sanitation at a high level at all times...
...2. Avoid sudden chilling such as would come from a plunge into extremely cold water on a very hot day...
...Cigarettes And Pulse Rate CHICAGO—A warning against the habit of giving an injured soldier a cigarette if an artery has been injured appears in a report by Dr...
...Average blood pressure increase was 19 millimeters of mercury for the systolic and 14 for the diastolic...
...Harry J. Robinson, Otto E. Graessle, and Miss Dorothy G. Smith, of the Merck Institute for [Therapeutic Research here, in the forthcoming issue of the scientific journal, Science...
...After smoking corn silk cigarettes, these changes and those in blood pressure and pulse rate were either negligible or slightly in the reverse direction...
...Hygienic habits should always be observed...
...The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis warns that anyone, child or grownup, with unexplained fever should be put to bed, isolated from others, and seen promptly by a physician...
...John B. McDonald, M. C, A. U. S., in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...The drug is less effective when given by mouth than when injected, but doses by mouth greatly reduce the number of lactose-fermenting bacteria in the intestinal tract...
...Streptothricin was discovered in 1941 by Prof...
...They may be the first signs of infantile paralysis...
...While the exact means of spread of the disease is not known, contaminated water and milk are always dangerous and flies have repeatedly been shown to carry the infantile paralysis virus...
...Effects of smoking standard cigarettes and also those made of corn silk were tested on four men physicians and two women technicians between the ages of 22 and 41 years and all in good health...
...Charles Sheard, of the Mayo Clinic, and Capt...
...Grace M. Roth and Dr...
...i 6. Do not swim in polluted water...
...Blood pressure, pulse, and electrocardiogram returned to normal within five to 15 minutes after smoking the standard cigarettes but the temperature changes in fingers and toes persisted for half an hour or longer...
...So far, however, very little has been reported on its effect in animals or its toxicity...
...Science Service Reports New Weapon Against Typhoid RAHWAY, N. J.—A possible weapon against typhoid fever, dysentery, and infected wounds and burns is seen in streptothricin, a germ-killer from a microbe that lives in the soil...
...This similarity to certain sulfa drugs suggests that streptothricin may be of value in bacil-Jary dysentery and typhoid...
...3. Pay careful attention to personal cleanliness, such as thorough hand washing before eating...
...Its marked action in test-tube experiments against both gram negative and gram positive organisms, together with the fact that body fluids apparently do not inhibit the drug's action, suggest it might be of -value in infected wounds and burns...
Vol. 8 • July 1944 • No. 30
