YOUR HEALTH: HERE'S HOW!
Stafford, Jane
YOUR HEALTH: Here's How! By JANE STAFFORD NOW that DDT, the potent insecticide, can be bought by civilians all of us are eager to use it to rid our homes of flies, mosquitoes, moths, ants, Fido's...
...He explains that this was because the conditions were the result of allergy to bacteria infecting the nose, throat, and sinuses...
...If you don't understand its limitations or the best way to use it to eliminate the particular pest that plagues you, however, you may be in for some disappointment...
...While penicillin is not effective against the virus of the common cold, Dr...
...For ants in buildings, the government scientists advise using a 5 per cent DDT spray in kerosene behind and beneath baseboards, behind window sills and frames, about sinks in kitchens and bathrooms, and on all table and chair legs, both sides of pantry shelves and to any cracks and crevices leading to the outside of the building...
...It is the residue left on ceilings and walls by a spray containing DDT that is effective against flies...
...For cockroaches a 10 per cent DDT powder is about as good as sodium fluoride for treating their hiding places...
...The results in this condition, Dr...
...From the standpoint of treatment, this use of penicillin has the advantage of bringing the mold chemical into direct contact with the disease germs at the site of their invasion of the body...
...Not all kinds of ants will be affected but many can be controlled for several weeks with one treatment...
...It lasts longer than sodium fluoride but, as with that material, it will be about a week before any marked reduction in the number of roaches is noticed...
...Herbert N. Vermilye, of Forest Hills, N. Y., reports in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association here...
...New Gains For Penicillin CHICAGO—The patient who gets bronchitis, an asthma attack, pneumonitis, or even a cold or migraine headaches this coming Winter may get relief through penicillin mist inhalation treatments given at his doe-tor's office or his own home...
...This was especially true in the case of persons who usually develop a heavy cough with much sputum a few days after the cold starts...
...Vermilye states...
...Migraine, high blood pressure, eczema, rosacea, colitis, extreme fatigue, and even mild psychoneurosis are other conditions which were helped by the penicillin mist inhalations, Dr...
...Vermilye reports aerosol penicillin was beneficial...
...Vermilye believes the reason for this rapid recovery is that the penicillin prevented secondary bacterial infections arising to complicate the cold...
...Acute and relapsing pneumonitis due to various cocci, tonsillitis, sinusitis, sinobronchitis, and pharyngitis with stomach and intestinal symptoms are other conditions in which Dr...
...While the 5 per cent suspension is advised early in the fly season, in late Summer and early Fall a suspension half this strength (2 1/2 per cent) can be used with excellent results for a couple of months or longer...
...The apparatus used for converting the penicillin into a very fine mist is available from most oxygen equipment companies and may be obtained for about $10 if a small portable oxygen tank is used, Dr...
...Vermilye reports...
...With 10 or more outfits a physician can treat at least 20 patients a week without the assistance of a nurse, once the patient understands how to take the inhalations...
...Vermilye found that patients got over colds faster when given the penicillin mist inhalations...
...The 5 per cent DDT spray can be used as a supplementary treatment for the under side of table tops, drawers, refrigerators and shelves...
...These and other disabilities in more than 200 patients have been relieved or improved by this use of the mold chemical, technically known as aerosol penicillin, Dr...
...Many were apparently well in one or two days although the treatment was continued for five days...
...Vermilye states...
...Flies, for example, are not killed immediately, so you need not be surprised if you seem to get no results from spraying DDT around a room with a hand spray gun...
...The rapid improvement in such stubborn conditions as intrinsic bacterial asthma is "notable," Dr...
...A five per cent suspension made of wettable DDT powder and water should be applied to walls, doors, screens, ceilings, cross beams, and lamp cords or any other place where flies are seen resting, especially at night, U. S. Department of Agriculture scientists advise...
...The fact that aerosol penicillin can be given in the doctor's office or the patient's home, instead of by hypodermic injection every three hours in a hospital, gives it many obvious practical advantages...
...Vermilye states, encourage the hope that "at last a promising therapeutic weapon is available for that intractable condition...
...By intrinsic bacterial asthma he means a kind believed due to chronic infection in the upper respiratory tract...
...By JANE STAFFORD NOW that DDT, the potent insecticide, can be bought by civilians all of us are eager to use it to rid our homes of flies, mosquitoes, moths, ants, Fido's fleas and any other such pests that disturb our peace and comfort...
...Vermilye does not suggest that such conditions due to causes other than bacterial allergy would be helped by penicillin mist inhalations...
...When these places have received a residual treatment of DDT the flies die in one to three hours...
...WARNING: Be careful not to use an oil spray near a fire and never use gasoline...
Vol. 9 • October 1945 • No. 39
