Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-17 | Page 8 | Dr. Fishbein's Health Talks

Dr Fishbein's Health Talks By DR nR MORRIS tORRIS During these hot days when you have modified your diet somewhat and particularly when foods are likely likely like like- ly to spoil you should be particularly watchful of inflammation of the in Furthermore the possibility of such inflammation on is intensified by the fact that your diet probably contains more fluids in summer than it does in winter and in addition the heat tends to some extent to disorganize the temperature mechanism of or the body Finally Finall this condition can come from so man many other causes that it cannot can canS not be classified as a 1 distinct disease but must be considered in relationship relationship relationship relation relation- ship to specific causes You may believe you have cramps or stomach ache and may complain of ot the symptoms of diarrhea when you have an Inflammation of the in intestines But before the thc right kind of ot treatment can be given and before repeated attacks can be prevented it itIs itIs itis Is necessary to fix the responsibility on some definite and usually single cause to In children sudden attacks of pain in the bowels and diarrhea are frequently frequently fre fre- due to wron wrong diet The old stomach ache due to eating green apples apples ap ap- ap- ap ples pies was of this type However the overeating of ot foods which stimulate action of the bowels also is likely to bring on Irritability with a certain amount of tion In most cases when persons are sensitive to food substances they respond respond respond re re- spond to the eating of such food with Irritability of the bowel and with excessive excessive excessive ex ex- activity There arc are also certain drugs which have a specific effect on the bowel and which if taken In sufficient quantity quantity quan will wm cause extreme irritation This applies particularly to drugs like arsenic mercury and other poisonous substances 0 0 Far less frequently than Is usually believed to be the case material in the bowel ferments because of or unfavorable unfavorable unfavorable un un- un- un favorable bacteria that are present with a resulting Intoxication of ot the body as a whole and with a reaction within the bowel manifested by looseness looseness loose loose- ness and straining Of at course a severe sever Infection with any of the bacteria organisms that are arc known to be dan dangerous erous to the human human human hu hu- man body when they attack the bowel will have an exceedingly bad result Inflammation of the bowel with the symptoms that hat have been mentioned also is not infrequent as a complication complies tion of various infectious diseases particularly typhoid fever tuberculosis sis and dysentery Sometimes infections of the bowel bowe occur in association with operations within the abdomen and occasionally serious disturbances of the circulation tion lion of ot the blood will be reflected inan in inan inan an inflammation of ot the bowel