YOUR HEALTH: HERE'S HOW!
Stafford, Jane
YOUR HEALTH: Here's How! By JANE STAFFORD EPIDEMICS of mumps occur most often in the Spring and Fall and are more frequent in the city than in rural regions. If the disease is epidemic in your...
...Pain and swelling in the jaw region just in front of the ear are usually the first symp-toms...
...In older boys and girls the sex glands may be affected as well as the salivary glands...
...Irvine H. Page, of the Lilly Laboratory for Clinical Research at Indianapolis City Hospital, report in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association here...
...Myron S. Aisen-berg and Dr...
...Headache, lack of appetite, and chilliness are other symptoms...
...The infectious period, that is the period during which the patient can give the disease to others, is believed to last from a short time before the swelling appears until it has disappeared...
...and retinal hemorrhages without papilledema or exudates which the physician can determine from examining the eyes...
...The pulp of a tooth, the scientists point out, is richly supplied with nerves arising from the 5th cranial nerve...
...Contact with articles recently contaminated with saliva—for example, pencils moistened with the tongue—may lead to infection...
...Convalescent serum is sometimes given in the hope of warding off an attack in a child who has been exposed to the disease...
...CHICAGO—Death from apoplexy can be predicted from 5 signs or symptoms...
...The dis-ease may be limited to one side, or it may affect both at the same time or Although mumps is generally conJane Stafford sidered a somewhat comic childhood ailment, this painful and incapacitating disease may become epidemic in barracks and military camps as well as in schools and colleges...
...motor or sensory neurologic disturbances, such as memory defects, loss of ability to speak, and numbness and tingling...
...For this reason, the doctor will probably insist on these teen-agers staying in bed so that the infection will not spread...
...vertigo (dizziness) or fainting spells...
...They warn here also against having teeth pulled "too near" the infantile paralysis season, since this might open another invasion route for the polio virus...
...It is reasonable to believe that the polio virus could travel this route to the brain and spinal cord...
...Infantile paralysis virus was carefully dropped into the cavity after bleeding had stopped...
...They report 6 cases in which the disease started 5 to 10 days after having teeth pulled...
...nosebleeds...
...To test this theory, they exposed the pulps of the front teeth of 5 rhesus monkeys, using an anesthetic to deaden the pain of the grinding...
...It teKes from 2 to 3 weeks for the first symptoms to appear after exposure to the disease...
...The disease is rarely fatal...
...There is no vaccine against mumps...
...R. D. Taylor and Dr...
...One of these monkeys developed paralysis while the others developed the non-paralytic form of the disease...
...Finding that infantile paralysis could invade by this route, the scientists next examined the teeth of several hundred children in North Carolina and Baltimore during last Summer's polio epidemic...
...The patient should be isolated from those who have not had mumps until he is well...
...If the disease is epidemic in your neighborhood, you are probably wondering whether your child will get it...
...Overactivity favors its spread to other glands...
...In North Carolina, 69.85 per cent of the children who had polio also had exposed tooth pulps, whereas in the group who did not get the disease, only 26.92 per cent had exposed pulps...
...If any 4 of these 5 signs appear in a person with high blood pressure of the type termed essential hypertension, it may be assumed that the patient will die of apoplexy within eight-tenths of a year to 5 years or, on the average, within 2.1 years...
...Thomas C. Grubb, of the University of Maryland School of Dentistry, report in the Journal of the American Dental Association...
...Cavities In Teeth May Be Invasion Route For Paralysis BALTIMORE—Cavities in the teeth which expose the tooth pulp may be one route by which the infantile paralysis virus enters the body, Dr...
...The 5 signs are: severe headaches at the back of the head or the nape or scruff of the neck...
...It is caused by a virus which is probably spread by droplets of moisture on the patient's breath...
Vol. 9 • May 1945 • No. 21
