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Show Protect Your Child From Rheumatic Fever r Protect your child this winter by keeping him healthy and well cautions the Utah Heart Association. Low resistance can lead to colds, sore throats and pneumonia.4 A further consequence conse-quence of low resistance may be rheumatic fever. Rheumatic fever has been found to have its beginning and culturing stages in strep sore throat, scarlet fever and some ear infections. All of these infections in-fections are caused by the strep germ. Thus it stands to reason that if strep infection is prevented pre-vented or controlled, the likelihood likeli-hood of damaging rheumatic fever is low. Most strep infections are in the form of "strep sore throats," but not every sore throat is a strep throat. If your child has a bad sore throat call your doctor, especially if it came on suddenly, sudden-ly, if there is difficulty in swallowing, swal-lowing, swollen neck glands, a high fever, nausea or vomiting. Rheumatic fever is a "repeater" "re-peater" and may effect many parts of the body. It is different from many childhood diseases because you can get it more than once. And with each attack there is a new . chance that the heart will be damaged resulting in rheumatic heart disease. Remember, as a precaution to keep your child healthy and well these winter months visit your doctor if you suspect any infection. infec-tion. For more information contact con-tact your Heart Association, 250 East 1st South, for its free leaflet leaf-let entitled "Now You Can Protect Pro-tect Your Child Against Rheu- |