YOUR HEALTH: HERE'S HOW
Stafford, Jane
YOUR HEALTH: Here's How! By JANE STAFFORD IF you are going to spend hours on the beach or on the water you will be more comfortable if you protect your eyes from the bright sunshine by wearing sun...
...For protection against the sun under ordinary circumstances, shutting out the heat rays is not so important...
...Doctors no longer consider it necessary to remove tonsils and adenoids from every child...
...Before trying the injections of penicillin, these medical officers had treated trench mouth patients at Gardiner General Hospital by swabbing a solution of the mold chemical directly onto the sore, ulcerated places in the patient's mouth...
...Developments In Infantile Paralysis CHICAGO—With the infantile paralysis season at hand, physicians will read in the Journal of the American Medical Association this week that: 1. A synthetic chemical called neostigmine plus hot packs help relax muscle spasm a little, or temporarily, in acute cases and are promising enough to warrant further trial and study...
...This is particularly important for the child entering school for the first time, since he is the one most apt to catch any disease which another child in school may have...
...Whether they are blue or green or black is less important than how much light comes through...
...A preliminary fitting on the street in sunlight will give a good idea of this...
...The doctor may think it wise, however, to repeat the smallpox vaccination and to give another Schick test to learn whether the child still has good protection against diphtheria...
...The children may have had these immunizations during their first year of life...
...The reason for doing this now is that if any defects are found, there will be time during the Summer to have them corrected...
...The child who has his tonsils removed when there is polio around seems to run some extra risk of catching the disease...
...Sun glasses should not be worn for protection against the glare of automobile headlights...
...Herman Kabat, now with the U. S. Public Health Service, and Dr...
...2. The amount of ultimate recovery from infantile paralysis depends primarily on the extent to which the central nervous system was involved and not the type of treatment...
...Earl R. Denny and Maj...
...Bernard M. Schwartz, Army Medical Corps, at the A.A.F...
...Miland E. Knapp, of the University of Minnesota, in 1943...
...The sage green color seems to shut out not only visible light but also some of the invisible, infra-red rays from the sun...
...The important thing about sun glasses is the comfort they give the wearer...
...The latter are less expensive...
...Many a child has been labelled stupid or disobedient when his trouble was an unsuspected case of poor eyesight or poor hearing...
...Regional Hospital at Truax Field, Madison, Wis...
...By JANE STAFFORD IF you are going to spend hours on the beach or on the water you will be more comfortable if you protect your eyes from the bright sunshine by wearing sun glasses...
...Altogether Capt...
...Results with intramusclar injections were "so dramatic" that this method, giving 25,000 units of penicillin for four doses at three-hour intervals, is called "apparently the optimal treatment of Vincent's angina" by Maj...
...Time To Check Children's Health With schools closed for the Summer vacation, wise parents will be making appointments with the doctor and dentist for a check-up of their children's health...
...Comparisons of weight and height between one child and another of the same age do not mean as much, because children, like grown-ups, vary in build...
...Schwartz has now treated 41 patients with similarly good results...
...They should cut down the glare enough for comfort without cutting out so much light that it is difficult to see...
...Many of the less expensive ones are as satisfactory as the more expensive ones...
...Many persons also find it comfortable to wear these for protection against the glare on city streets in Summer...
...Penicillin Cures Trench Mouth CHICAGO—Penicillin can bring speedy recovery from Vincent's angina, popularly known as trench mouth, it appears from two reports in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association here...
...In these patients the ulcers showed marked improvement in 24 to 48 hours and pain in those who were suffering severely was rapidly relieved...
...They cut out too much light for safe night driving...
...These will be checked against the child's own record of the previous year, to see whether he is growing and gaining as he should...
...Eyesight and hearing, of course, will be checked to make sure the child is not being handicapped at school by inability to see the blackboard or lesson books or to hear the teacher clearly...
...Paul L. Shallenberger, Lt...
...Decided improvement in, 4 to 6 hours, with pain and other symptoms completely banished in 48 hours, was achieved in the first 14 patients treated by Capt...
...Harold D. Pyle, Army Medical Corps, in the second report...
...The use of neostigmine for infantile paralysis was first suggested by Dr...
...The increasing number of sage green colored sun glasses are a sign of this trend...
...Some are made of optically ground and polished glass...
...If the children have not yet been immunized against diphtheria and whooping cough and vaccinated against smallpox, these protective measures should be started without delay...
...In addition to cutting down the glare, sun glasses should be made of clear glass of even thickness, without streaks, bubbles, or other imperfections...
...Sun glasses are made in many colors and styles, though there seems to be a growing tendency to make them similar to the type of safety glasses worn by arc welders and certain other industrial workers...
...Others are made of brown and drawn glass...
...These are the heat rays, and for arc welding and certain other industrial work, protection against them is important...
...The doctor will probably weigh the child and measure his height...
...He recommends giving the penicillin by hypodermic injection into the muscles in 20,000 unit doses every three hours until 100,000 units have been given...
...When it does need to be done, it should be as early in the Summer as possible to get it over before the infantile paralysis season, health authorities warn...
Vol. 9 • July 1945 • No. 29
