Show DIFFICULT BREATHING SHOULD BE TREATED WITHOUT ANY DELAY Trouble Must Not Be Considered Considered Considered Con Con- I Too Lightly by Parents MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED Bring your our problems about bout diet general care and management manage manage- ment bent to Mrs 1 Eldred in c care re of oC the Your Baby and Mine dep department de de- de- de p of ol this newspaper Your questions wll be answered promptly if it you ou will e encle a self addressed cent 3 stamped envelope en eti- eti with your letter The young baby's difficult wh wheezy breathing the inclination to cough and choke are easily of suit sufficient en t. t consequence consequence con con- sequence so that they should not be interpreted too casually I Wheezy bre breathing breithing thing may indicate a. a asthma caused by foods to 10 which the child is sensitive The irritation may maybe maybe maybe be caused by local external factors feathers leathers powders animal and human human hu hu- hu man dandruff insect powders rs or pollens all o of which are commonly distress distressing in to allergic individuals To find the cause and cure of the wheezing one must start first with those common foods most often found irritating and then progress to the environmental environment factors experimenting experiment experiment- ing ng and testing until one has arrived arrived ar ar- ar rived at t some sonic satisfactory conclusion Write for my leaflet leanet What the Mother Should Know About Eczema Eczema ma enclosing a self addressed 3 cent stamped envelope with your our re re- quest An enlarged thymus gland may also account for the coughing chok chok- and ing wheezing Some modern doctors doctors doc dec tors tars prophesy that babies will some someday someday someday day have X ray X-ray ra photographs made of their thymus glands at birth to protect protect pro pro- them from the insidious sometimes sometimes some some- times fatal dangers dankers of an sized over-sized gland eland The thymus gland is located in the upper chest chest- crowded into the respiratory respiratory atory tract The gland is largest in infancy and grows smaller with age One of or its functions is supposed to tobe tobe tobe be the inhibition of the untimely development development de de- de- de of the sex glands This supposition grows out of the observation observation tion that when there is a of the thymus the thc sex glands develop without relation to the childs child's age Sometimes the thymus gland is oversized ed at birth and because of or orthe the crowding the child suffers from froma a raspy wheezy breathing that sounds as l if he had a chronic cold in his chest though he has no other evidences evidence's s of a cold In moments of ol emotional stress the unusual pressure may cause the child to los lose his breath and be unable unable un able to regain it it so that he grows crows black in the face fac and limp b before fore he can breathe again He may choke easily over large particles of ot food or cough const constantly especially when lying down These symptoms might indicate numerous numerous nu nu- nu mero s oth others other 1 things to the trained eye but ut when the mother other has a bab baby who ho chokes easily l holds is his his' breath For any and eV every ry cause c coughs constantly constantly constantly con con- when no ito cold is present he needs a doctor not a disciplinarian or oran oran oran an explanation of how he inherits his Uncle Hiram's temper The cure curea is a few ray X-ray treatments to reduce the gland to normal siz size |