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Show BEAVER PRESS Hay Fever Is No Longer Such a Mystery to Medical Science r MET Sniffle, gib be a haggichiff, quig! Hey; hey, old summer time and the hay fever seathe good son is open. "Why, oh, why, do I have to go through this every year?" is the wail of the hay fever sufferer, and well it might be for there is hardly an affliction so relentless in its unwelcome sniffle, wheeze KA-CHOOO-OO-O- annual visits. The answer to the victim's cry Is that he is allergic to something in the air, probably the pollen from a plant or weed. What particular plant it is determines whether its pollen rides the air waves in May, June, July or September. Time used to be that hay fever victims, when they began to sneeze, their eyes started to water and their noses to sniffle, simply had to pack up, leave home and make for the iNorth Woods or the resorts at Charlevoix and Mackinac island in Michigan where the air is comparatively free from dust and pollen. While this made an excellent excuse for a vacation it was a considerable expense and often a great inconvenience. Fortunately today medical science has made such strides that hay fever can now be treated with a pretty fair degree of success right at home. The big task is to find out what type of pollen is causing each individual case. To do this doctors may have to be expert detectives, for many different individuals are allergic to different things. Results of Allergy. All of us are allergic to something or other, whether it be a certain type of food, the hair of a certain animal, feathers from pillows, some types of dust, or even smoke. But only about one person in ten is allergic to such a degree that he is uncomfortable. By allergic we mean, in a free sense, that we are unusually sensitive to something. A high degree of allergy to some of the things mentioned in the foregoing paragraph may result in any one or combination of a number of afflictions eczema, hives, "colds," hay fever, headache, diarrhea and other ailments. Hay fever symptoms spring from hives which occur in the nose, sinuses and eyes, causing sneezing and itching. If they were to occur in the lungs, causing spasmodic contraction of the bronchial tubes and coughing, they would produce asthma. When hay fever occurs the pollen to which the victim is allergic enters the nasal ducts, inflaming them; the poison passes to the throat and bronchial tubes, and finally to the ends of the bronchial tracts, where swelling occurs. The hay fever victim need not even be living in the neighborhood of the plants whose pollen are at the bottom of his grief. To follow a hypothetical case, let us say a patch of ragweeds was blossoming in a vacant lot of some city. A high wind came, spiriting away the seeds, lifting them up over the city and carrying them a hundred or even two hundred miles from the place they grew. At last as the wind dies they settle down, unhappily, right before an unfortunate soul who is allergic to ragweed pollen without ever having discovered it. He breathes them into his nose thousands of them, for it would take 50,000 to cover the head of a pin. Test Skin With Tollen. Soon his nasal duct is inflamed and he begins to sneeze. Then the poison passes down through his throat and bronchial tubes and i yvr ' ' 1 , ....... Aerial surveys, conducted thou-tcthe air for sands of feet up, hay fever pollen. st swelling occurs. His eyes redden, his nose itches "where he can't got at it to scratch it," and he begins to sniffle constantly. Perhaps our friend thinks he has a cold. But the doctor says, "Hay fever," and tells him he had better find out what type of pollen Is causing the trouble. The customary procedure is for the doctor to begin making skin sensitization tests. Little scratches are made on the arm, and into each of these scratches one drop of pollen solution is placed; a different type of pollen is used on each scratch. The sufferer is allergic to the type of pollen placed in any scratch which reddens and swells. We'll say our hypothetical victim is allergic to ragweed pollen. His protests to the doctor that lie has not been near any ragweed need not confuse us, for we know how the pollen got to him. The doctor explains it to him, too. Now the doctor orders injections of the proper type of pollen vaccine into the blood. Next year, now that the patient's allergy is known, he will be given minute, but increasing doses of the injection, starting in February and continuing for a few weeks until it is thought he should be immune when the season comes. It does not always work out that way, and sometimes daily injections during the season itself do not help. Different pollens do their dastardly work at different times of the year in different sections. In the eastern and central states, for instance, June grass causes trouble around the beginning of that month; in early July it is Timothy hay, late ' ft . mm the Lives of one in the street one day he EEI&l -- j MA -T- HAT TQOTH QON'T HURT A bit NOW HONEST T DON'T IF I DON'T HAVE ) I ' HOUSE AWAKE" , IT PULLED VOU CAM SAVE THE MOWE- Y- " Men NO- ZFrS Y GEE, - Little VOUNQ MAN THAT TOOTH WIS COMING OUT RIGHT I'M NOT GOING TO HAVE YOU MOANING ALL NIGHT AND KEEPING THE WHOLE at approached it closely to examine the queer animal at length. He began to choke up and there was a severe excretion of fluid from the lungs. Now he had played with cats at times, and he owned a little fox terrier, but none of these had ever affected him so. It just turned out that he was allergic to horse hair. Actually, now that skin sensitization tests are common, it has been found that many supposed hay fever sufferers did not have hay fever, but were allergic to thoir own dog or cat. You can even be allergic to cigarette smoke. There is on record the case of a woman who was sensitive to that kind of smoke. Her husband smoked a pipe; when she played bridge at the home of friends who smoked cigarettes she would begin to sniffle and appear to have a cold. The doctor found what was troubling her and treated her for it. Now her companions could smoke corn silk without bothering her. Seasonal asthma is frequently caused by house dust which mixes wire-haire- in Events Jf In a patch of ragweed; what a place for a hay fever victim! across OUR COMIC SECTI0K y 3S. Skin Sensitization Test Can Now Find What Allergy Is Troubling You By WILLIAM C. UTLEY f BTOT JfllSv iIPKSU. '?JP xlT f HOW ABOUT riDVAki. d 4:-,' ,.7 ' . . (f.pyrliil'' W.;r. '.' " ."",.V,,:':' : . ' I "- - '" WHATSA -- , NOT uat THAT ) WAV AFTER t ' I t WAMT To' t them SBE WOM'T tiitl 4 (ounces i been 1 fctte d d Sam DONT BAM ( BVEM MONfW'S BILLS J is . Od SEE THIS SO fes to ike's IkIOW, BUT ' FAM THAT I'M DA? fc try ' jiiy. EVEN) , i t oke tae's s J and uaounce fitter. t ... - .... .. ; vbio W i .. j - '''X LOOK-V- i Oi) WONT , HAVE By I m Osborne WN'U Here are what the pollens which make hay fever sufferers sneeze and sniffle look like. The models (magnified 3,500 times) which the young lady is holding are, left to right: Timothy hay, short ragweed, burweed, marsh elder and cottonwood. the fullowing month the giant ragas September starts it is the small or common ragweed. When Suffering Begins. How severe a victim's symptoms are depends upon the amount of pol len that is filling the air he breathes as well a? upon his susceptibility. The amount of pollen is likely to vary from day to day. It will be stirred up more, of course, when there is a good breeze, and it will tend to settle on a calm day. In some states at the height of the season it is not unusual to find 1,000 to 2,000 grains of pollen to the cubic yard of air. Bullet) thins out in higher atmospheres, but aviators making scientific tests can find it a in:le above the earth. It is when the air contains a pol- en count of 2f to the cubic yard that the hay fever victim begins to sutler, so you can imagine his misery when the count reaches 2.000! According to medical scientists, you should not sit next to an open window on a train if you would avoid hay fever, although cars are all right, for the pollen is filtered from the air in them. Nasal sprays will protect the nose in some measure from attack, and a little white vaseline around the opening of the nostrils will keep some of the pollen from getting in. Victims will find themselves more comfortable in a dark room where there are no drafts. Although ten persons in one hundred suffer to some degree because they are allergic, only one of these ten, on an average, has hay fever. Various allergy victims suffer in various ways. Sensitive to Horse Hair. Take the case of the city child who was accustomed enough to thousands of automobiles in his daily life, but seldom, if ever, laid eyes on a horse. Finally coming weed and I wal-oi-ve: GOT VEP Dppm4mi.iT WAE, MRS, ular attacks of asthma at a LOOK AMP AT SMOOP7 more actively through the air at the time of the year when the radiators are turned on for the first time. June flies cause asthma in the area about the Great Lakes; elsewhere butterflies or other insects could provoke it; so can certain foods, such as berries, asparaAlmost anygus or muskmelon. one knows somebody who simply can't eat strawberries without getting the hives. When a person begins to have reg- HAD MIME EEKS IT ALMOST WONt ALL ) TWO UnuJ PEADV FOR 'NUTHER WAN M'M THAT 'BO!' K ATlN 'TILL certain time of day or night, the doctor is likely to examine every article with which the victim regularly conies in contact at that time.' If they occur at night, it might be the feathers in the pillow, the hair in the bed mattress or the wool in the blankets. Boys Hate Haircuts, Anyway. Sometimes the doctor has to be a mighty clever detective to find them, however. There is the case of a small boy who had an asthmatic attack every few wtks. After much observation it was found that in a general way the attacks corresponded to the time of his periodic visits to the barber. It was eventually found that he was allergic to hair not to his own hair, or the hair of anyone in his family, but to the hair of anyone with whom ho was not in daily contact! The Detroit News reports the cns of a doctor in that city who suffered from asthma every Sunday. .H finally discovered that he was allergic to Sunday newspapers! No kidding. He was sensitive to certain aromas which the various inks gave forth; because of the much larger paper on Sunday, he spent a great deal more time with it. The daily paper did not have enough time to affect him, but the Sunday one did. it Bell Syndicate- .- WNU Servlc. Tosiy, aMUT OW,HlM-SH- MACHlME VEZ BE HAvjiu' IMSOiDE THERE? WAVE J A vJOv? pRitL' HEAD w LADIES t?t IS E's IT, WHUT Ol MACHlME THIM NOW f y SHOP! By Ted O'Loujhlin t wvtr fori: and aft Odds Against It JUST The doctor was making his rounds in the hospital, accompanied by ten students. He stopped at the bed o. a bookmaker. After "My dear sir, a soft answer turn-etaway wrath." "Yes, and wrath often turns away a 10ft answer." h the nature of the man's explaining complaint ho asked the students whether they thought it needed an operation. Each of the students said, "No." "You are all wrong," said the doctor. "I am going t0 operate." The bookmaker sat up in bed and shouted, "Oh, no you're not; it's ten to one against." 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