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Show Heart Association Offers Resolutions With nose and throat infections now approaching their annual peak, the Utah Heart Association has requested parents to include among their New Year's resolutions resolu-tions the following: "Resolved that I will take every precaution to safeguard my children against strep infections infec-tions as a means of protecting them against rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease." The Association pointed out that recent advances in scientific knowledge of the streptococcus germ many of them speeded by Heart Fund contributions now make it possible for medical science sci-ence to prevent many cases of rheumatic fever, which some-tnnes some-tnnes leads to rheumatic heart disease. But the cooperation of parents s urgently needed. Rheumatic fever almost always s rroceded by a streptococcal infection usually of the throat. If a child has a strep infection, and if the parents secure prompt medical attention, the physician can often knock out the infection and thus ward off the danger of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease. For those children with a history his-tory of rheumatic fever, parental paren-tal cooperation is essential. Parents Par-ents must see to it that they get regular medical treatment to safeguard against strep infection. This will head off repeat attacks at-tacks of rheumatic fever which carry with them the serious danger dan-ger of cumulative heart damage. The Association emphasized that only a physician is qualified to decide whether a child may have a strep infection to treat the disorder. If a child gets a sore throat and has any of the signs and symptoms symp-toms listed below, a physician should be called promptly. Parents Par-ents should be prepared to answer an-swer the following questions: 1. Did the sore throat come on suddenly? 2. Does your youngster complain com-plain that his throat hurts most when he swallows? 3. Does it hurt him under the angle of his jaws when you press there gently with your fingers? Are the glands swollen here? 4. Does he have fever? (Usually (Usual-ly a strep infection brings on a i fever of between 101 and 104 degrees.) 5. Does your child complain of headache? 6. Is he nauseated? Has he vomited? 7. Has he been in contact with anyone who has had scarlet fever or a sore throat The Association also urged all citizens to resolve to support the 1960 Heart Fund, which is to be conducted in February. |