YOUR HEALTH: HERE'S HOW!
Stafford, Jane
YOUR HEALTH: Here's How! By JANE STAFFORD MAYBE you cleaned out the medicine chest during Spring housecleaning time, but did you think to go over the family first aid kit and see that it was in...
...The danger of carelessness in this respect is illustrated by an example from one industrial plant where an inspector found a bottle of hydrochloric acid, unlabelled, with an eye dropper beside it in the first aid kit...
...If this had not been discovered someone might in haste have dropped hydrochloric acid into a worker's eye instead of the soothing eye lotion...
...Joseph G. Hopkins, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and George M. Lawis, Cornell University Medical School...
...By JANE STAFFORD MAYBE you cleaned out the medicine chest during Spring housecleaning time, but did you think to go over the family first aid kit and see that it was in good order...
...are reported as useful for treatment given by physicians...
...Supplies for the first aid kit should be bought in very small containers, so that once opened they can be destroyed...
...Fred R. Weidman, University of Pennsylvania School of Hedici.no, Dr...
...Once a roll of cotton or a package of gauze or other bandage has been opened, and a piece torn or cut off and used, the rest of the gauze or cotton in the package is no longer sterile, that is, germ-free...
...Otherwise the dirt and germs that got onto it when it was first used and others that accumulate in the contents of the half-open package will get into the wound of the next injured worker, with possibly serious consequences...
...Chaster \\r...
...This "venture" into "the dangerous field of self-treatment" is made in recognition of the fact that, although self-treatment is considered unsafe, a large section of the public persists in treating many of its own ailments, at least in the early stages...
...Home Remedy For Athlete's Foot CHICAGO—Boric acid powder is recommended by the American Medical Association here as a safe remedy, and the only safe home remedy, for athlete's foot...
...supervision or to anyone wishing to j use it as a safe storage place...
...Since the report covers studies made for the Medical Association's Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry and is published by the Council, its recommendations can probably be taken as coming from the Association as, well as the scientists reporting...
...Consequently it should not be returned to the first aid kit...
...The patient is warned "under no circumstances" to "yield to the well meant recommendations of friends and to advertisements...
...Three relatively new remedies, sodium propionate, undecylenic acid and Cresatin (metacresylacetate...
...The recommendation is given in a report by Dr...
...Emmons, U. S. ],'u;ional Institute of Health, Dr...
...The first aid kit should not be locked, but it should not be available to anyone wishing to use its contents without...
...First aid kits at home are not the only ones that need proper care and regular checking of their contents...
...s** "Preparations containing iodine, mercury, or sulphur are particularly dangerous and the sulfonamides are notorious because they so frequently sensitize the individual to sulfonamide drugs which may be imperatively indicated later for a really serious ailment...
...Hygiene of the feet is stated to be of paramount importance both in prevention and treatment of athlete's foot...
...Foot baths of hypochlorite and hyposulfite, however, are "becoming discredited...
...In the small industrial plant, store or office these kits should be in charge of one reliable i person who is fully responsible for I maintenance and upkeep of the kit and for giving first aid when it is needed...
...Nor is it the place for keeping medicines that are not properly used in first aid...
...The bottle of eye lotion for which the dropper was intended was found, also unlabelled, some distance away...
Vol. 9 • August 1945 • No. 35
