Show t V J M J c rr W wr fi v Let Our Motto Be GOOD HEALTH I ILet DY nY DR LLOYD ARNOLD Professor r or f y and Pre fie Pre i er H I n i Collet or f t 5 w 11 Iff f R cP y T ASTHMA HAY FEVER HIVES AND SICK HEADACHE Spontaneous hypersensitiveness In inman Inman man are nee big bg words that without without without- proper explanation F s Lion tion mean meun very veryl l little little but as a 4 matter of ot fact spontaneous hy by hy ven e s s Includes asthma hay fever tc ec- ec eczema ec eczema zema and such common diseases F v which hie h while they rarely carry w us to the certainly m make a k e eus us exceedingly uncomfortable Asthma attacks the muscular tubes of ot the air pas passages sages and und causes these muscles to contract thereby diminishing the volume of air that Is breathed In hay lIay fever attacks the membrane of the nose Eczema may break out In the skin almost anywhere It has been found that when both parents have suffered Buffered from hn hay fever or asthma 53 f 8 per cent of the children have these ailments aliments When only one parent suffers from hay fever er c and asthma usually just half of the children have e the tile same ali ali- aliment ail ailment ment nut Cut bay hay fever te-er and asthma develop in some children where there Is no family history of or this disease When both parents are asthmatics or hay fever sufferers children develop elop the same disease earlier In n life lire than when one par parent ent eat Is s Involved or when there Is no history of ot these particular all ail ailment ments ment In the mother or father Hay fever parents usually beget hay fever children and asthmatic parents b beget get asthmatic children Jay liny fever Is usually associated with August the month In which ragweed pollens are most numer numer- numerous numerous ous In the air But the hypersensitive tive condition of the nose can be b brought about by other substances than pollen animal hair dandruff or such uch substances can cnn cause It It as can face powder ponder perfumes and certain tain foods such as strawberries almonds fish tIsh etc Or It can be brought ht about by bacterial infections Infections The cause of or asthma can be bo the same as that of hay bay fever fe Inhaling certain substances Ingesting certain substances as ns food or remote foci roel for bacterial growths can cnn cause nn an Increased sensitiveness eness of ot the mus mus- musculature musculature of or the tubes leading air to the lungs This Increased sen sensitiveness causes spasms of or these muscles It Is during the perIod ot of spasm or cramps that the asthmatic Is most uncomfortable In studies which have been car carried Fled ried on at the Illinois Research hos lios- hospital hospital pital In connection with the University University University sity of Illinois It seems that an In- In Individual In Individual belonging to the asthma hay bay fever fe eczema or hives hires group Is put together In a n different way from the rest of us us These hypersensitive people are so constituted and con constructed that they react In abnor abnor- abnormal abnormal mal manner to what would be nor nor- normal normal normal mal to most of or us The Individuals who suffer suITer from headache the sick head hend headache headache ache nelie that conies cones on with regular pe- pe periodicity pe- pe periodicity pe periodicity really belong to the same general generl group as the hypersensitive persons do cIo This does docs not mean that the migraine Is brought on like nn an attack of ot asthma or hay fever But 3 ut studies s of the tho headache groups that we have O made In our research laboratory len leave C us Impressed with the fact that preceding an attack of sick headache definite internal changes take place These Include changes es In constituents of or the blood and there seems to be a difference In the Internal metabolism of these ml migraine raino sufferers The Tir chang changes seem to be periodic occurring some some- sometimes sometimes times 9 at weekly Intervals and again nt at fortnightly monthly and even loner Intervals Cons Consequently these sIck headaches although not brought broughton on by hy Inhaling plant or animal sub sub- substances stances or Of by eating certain foods seem to depend on a chanID changing or unstable Internal regulating system that makes the migraine patient closely akin to asthmatic and hay bay fever fc sufferers Our conclusion then Is 15 that per per- persons persons per persons sons suffering from asthma hay fever eczema hives and migraine have a very unstable involuntary nervous system The Involuntary In controlling ma mn machinery machinery chinery of or our body bOlly functions Is so 80 r regulated that It can cnn be upset or thrown out of ot tune as aa a result ot of contact with Irritating substances that to the rest of us produce no DO deviation from the tir normal We know even less about the migraine group Croop of or sufferers than the hay r fe- fe fever fever ver group roup The cause of the attacks of sick headache seems to be de de- developed d developed within the Individual be be- b because because cause calise we can demonstrate certaIn internal body changes change's preceding the 1 onset of or migraine It will wll be he ne-ces ne necessary sary to do B a great deal more inborn labora laboratory I tory work before these spontaneous 1 people and the ml- ml mi migraine graine sufferers can be clearly on- on un We must know more about the cause and how bow the body changes during the attacks of or th these e diseases s before we can attempt to prevent i hem hem heal i e C Weott W tf r UBI |