YOUR HEALTH: HERE'S HOW!

Stafford, Jane

YOUR HEALTH: Here's How! By JANE STAFFORD THE third season of the year when people have lots of colds is at hand. Colds come in waves, scientists have observed, with the crests of the waves...

...Owners and proprietors of markets, bakeries, restaurants and other food establishments need to wage a constant campaign to protect their wares from flies and the disease germs they spread...
...Colds come in waves, scientists have observed, with the crests of the waves occurring, in the United States, in January-February, April-May, and September-October...
...Stay in bed while the fever lasts...
...A warm room, night and day, with the air kept moist by a steam kettle or vaporizer is advised by some authorities...
...Both vaccines and vitamins have been wide-ly heralded as cold preventives...
...Nose drops and various cold remedies may make you feel more comfortable, but consult your doctor before you take these or laxatives, * * * Banish Flies To Protect Health The common house fly is a real menace to health...
...Keep garbage cans tightly covered...
...This is something to ask your own physician about...
...THE most infectious period of a cold is the first day...
...using individual towels and handkerchiefs...
...No simple, effective method of preventing colds has yet been found...
...John Herrlin, Jr., and Dr...
...The list of diseases flies spread includes food poisoning, dysentery, and typhoid fever, and recent studies suggest they may also spread infantile paralysis...
...New Uses For Penicillin CHICAGO—Amputations may be avoided and severe infections of hands, feet, arms or legs quickly cleared up when penicillin is given by injection into an artery instead of by other methods...
...Even if there is no sickness in your home or neighborhood, the flies that enter your home may bring sickness, for flies can travel as far as 8 miles in one day...
...The cold you may get this month or next probably will not be a very bad one...
...Food and milk supplies should be kept covered to keep flies out...
...In the case of food poisoning, flies once infected with this germ remain infected for life and can infect other flies as well as the food and water with which they come is contact...
...This makes it difficult to try to escape colds by avoiding persons who have them: Certain personal hygiene measures should help check the spread of colds...
...Pain is often greatly relieved fallowing the first injection...
...If flies are numerous on a farm, it is usually because animal wastes are not disposed of often enough...
...S. Thomas Glasser, Dr...
...If there is fever with a cold, consult a physician because a feverish cold may mean pneumonia...
...Some medical authorities have reported that cold vaccines are disappointing, but others have reported good results from them...
...The physician will probably advise drinking plenty of water and fruit juices and perhaps eating lightly...
...Remember that flies breed and live in filth, so clean up all refuse and keep the premises clean...
...Success with this method in 24 cases, believed the first treated in this way, is reported by Dr...
...Dysentery germs can live in the fly's intestinal tract as long as 5 days...
...washing hands frequently...
...A good diet is essential to good health and if you keep in good health you may have fewer colds than you otherwise would and should be able to get over a cold without trouble...
...One injection may eure cases of infection and inflammation without pus formation and discharge and without death of tissues, the doctors report...
...When amputation is necessary, it may be frequently possible to save more of the leg or arm, hand ©r foot than would otherwise be saved...
...A cold patient may even infect others several hours before he shows signs of having a cold...
...The presence of many flies in a food store has been called a sign that the store is not clean...
...The worst ones for causing lost time from work and having severe complications come in January and February...
...having eating and drinking utensils, including the bathroom glass or drinking cup, clean...
...Standard advice for treating a cold is: Go to bed the first day and keep warm...
...These include covering coughs and sneezes with a handkerchief, preferably one of paper that can be burned...
...Piles of fermenting grass and damp newspapers may become fly-breeding grounds...
...Boris Pollock, of New York Medical College and the Flower-Fifth Avenue and Metropolitan Hospitals, in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association here...
...So far as the vitamins are concerned, a person who is not getting enough of any of them may have less resistance to colds as well as to other germ diseases...

Vol. 9 • October 1945 • No. 37


 
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