YOUR HEALTH: HERE'S HOW!
Stafford, Jane
YOUR HEALTH: Here's How! By JANE STAFFORD MANY civilians as well as men in the armed services have been exposed to malaria in the course of construction or other jobs in tropical areas during the...
...The hostile-aggressives are likely to be sullen and unruly and when under the influence of alcohol may attack civilians or fellow-soldiers who have hot been overseas...
...Navy experience during 1943 with a dangerous spread of hemolytic streptococcus germs that gained increased virulence as they spread and apparently came close to wrecking plans for expansion of the Navy led to his emphatic recommendation for a new handling of streptococcus infection to protect the public health...
...If it is known that the patient has been in the tropics, such symptoms, especially the diarrhea, are particularly misleading because they suggest bacillary or amebic dysentery...
...The next day he had a severe chill and could not recognize his wife...
...Patients with acute tonsillitis or pharyngitis harbor streptococcus germs that are more infectious than the strains that cause scarlet fever, he declared...
...Roy R. Grinker, of the Army Air Forces, stat) at a meeting on nervous and mental diseases and war held here under the auspices of the Chicago Institute of Medicine...
...They should be alert to the possibility of developing an attack of malaria within a few days or weeks after their return home...
...Streptococcus infection of nose and throat without a rash are just as contagious as those with rash and probably more so...
...The men complain of pain and nausea and vomit all but milk, showing that they, too, are reverting, or regressing as psychiatrists term it, to a babyish level...
...Depressions usually involve personal loss, such as that of an officer or a comrade, for which the patient blames himself, Col...
...Science Service Reports Mentally-Sick Soldiers CHICAGO—The largest number of our mentally sickest returned soldiers are made up of passive-dependent individuals who long to get home to wife or mother and be taken care of as though they were babies, Lt...
...First step in such cases, the New York physicians advise, is to examine the blood to see whether or not the patient has malaria...
...Any sign of sickness, even if it appears to be only a cold, should be the signal to these persons to consult a doctor at once...
...By bringing adequate treatment for these breakdowns close to operational bases, however, it has been possible to return 95 per cent of officer patients and 80 per cent of enlisted men to full duty...
...His temperature was normal and he was given treatment to relieve the cold symptoms...
...Grinker said, while the infrequent psychotic-like type loses the ability to recognize his present safety and sees himself back in- combat every time he closes his eyes...
...Intensive quinine treatment was started, but it was too late to save him and he died eight days after his first chill...
...When a falciparum malaria attack starts with symptoms of a stomach or intestinal upset, with pain, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, conditions requiring an operation such as intestinal obstruction may be suspected...
...Harry Most and Dr...
...Henry E. Meleney, of New York University College of Medicine, in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...Those who fail to respond to treatment are of five types: the passive dependent types who want to return to a childish status, those with hostile-aggressive reactions, the depressed, those with physical symptoms, and the infrequent psychotics...
...Three cases, two of them fatal, in which the malaria attack masqueraded as a cold or grippe, and others in which stomach and intestinal symptoms were misleading, were reported by Dr...
...No matter how carefully selected through psychiatric tests, almost every man will break down if the stress of air combat continues long enough, Col...
...The patient, or a relative if the patient is confused as may be the case in some forms of malaria, should tell the doctor that the patient has been in a tropical area so the doctor will be alerted to the possibility of the illness being malaria and will examine the patient's blood...
...By JANE STAFFORD MANY civilians as well as men in the armed services have been exposed to malaria in the course of construction or other jobs in tropical areas during the war...
...Alvin F. Coburn, U. S. Navy Medical Corps, at the meeting here of the American Public Health Association...
...Grinker pointed out...
...Two days later he consulted a physician for what seemed to be a cold...
...Isolate Strep Throats NEW YORK—Isolation of patients with streptococcus sore throats for at least two weeks, just as scarlet fever patients are now isolated for three weeks, to prevent spread of their germs was called for by Comdr...
...He Was taken to the hospital and the illness diagnosed as malaria the following day...
...When the emotional breakdown shows in physical symptoms, these usually are referred to the stomach and intestinal tract...
...In one case the man returning to America from Africa by airplane had a chill on his arrival at Miami, but continued his trip to New York...
Vol. 8 • November 1944 • No. 48
