YOUR HEALTH: HERE'S HOW!
Stafford, Jane
YOUR HEALTH: Here's How! By JANE STAFFORD WITH the Winter season for colds coming on, many of you will be using nose drops to relieve the stuffy feeling colds bring. The wise thing to do is to ask...
...Norman R. Ingraham, Jr., Dr...
...Sulfa drugs, for example, are justly popular as valuable remedies for many serious germ diseases...
...The pehicillin-sulfa drug combination, they find, is more effective than either penicillin or sulfa drug alone or sulfa drug combined with serum...
...A time may come, the Illinois State Medical Society points out, when he may desperately need one of these drugs but cannot have its benefit because his system has built up resistance to these drugs...
...Antonio J. Waring, Jr., and Dr...
...He knows which of the many such preparations are useful, which ones are of questionable value, and which ones may harm nose and sinuses...
...Herman Beerman, and Dr...
...Find out about them from your doctor...
...Once in the lungs, the oil is not absorbed as some animal and vegetable oils might be, and remains as an irritating foreign substance...
...The Philadelphia doctors, however, appear hopeful that penicillin may prove as good as or better than present treatment with ar-senicals...
...Early syphilis in expectant mothers is either cured or at least suppressed, miscarriage and stillbirth are averted and apparently healthy babies are born when the mothers are treated with penicillin, Dr...
...Not enough time has elapsed to be sure whether mothers or babies are really cured of the infection and more study is needed to determine the best dosage of the mold chemical...
...Nose drops are not satisfactory, the medical society states, if they produce unlooked-for changes in blood pressure, general nervousness, sleeplessness, and tremor...
...They are not cure-alls, however, and it is not wise to take them without a doctor's advice and while continuing under his care...
...It has been shown that healthy persons may develop severe types of lipid pneumonia if they use medicated liquid petrolatum nose drops over long periods of time...
...Penicillin combined with sulfa drugs saved 12 out of 13 patients suffering with meningitis due to pneumonia germs, a once 100 per cent fatal disease, Dr...
...Most such prepartions have as their basis liquid petrolatum...
...J. W. Lentz, Dr...
...Babies born with syphilis make a good response to penicillin treatment...
...Medicated oils have frequently been used as nose drops...
...Margaret H. D. Smith, of Baltimore, report...
...This is really a dangerous habit, the medical society warns...
...This is especially likely to happen during sleep if the nose drops have been used before retiring...
...The wise thing to do is to ask your own doctor to advise you about what type of nose drops you should use...
...There are nose drops available which have been tested and found both safe and helpful...
...One danger of using sulfa drugs locally, as in nose drops, is that such use may develop in the patient a sulfa-resistant state...
...Penicillin Scores New Triumphs CHICAGO—Fresh triumphs for penicillin are reported in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...And use your own bottle so you won't pick up more germs from some one else in the family who has had the dropper in his nose...
...John H. Stokes, of Philadelphia, report...
...The petrolatum, being light, does not make you cough and so can be breathed into or may gravitate into the lungs...
Vol. 8 • October 1944 • No. 43
