Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-28 | Page 6 | Dr. Fishbein's Health Talks

Dr Fishbein's Health Talks By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN The child who lives in the home of ofa a grownup person perron with tuberculosis I Is s undergoing a terrific risk of ot getting this disease I Therefore your dut duty to your child if f there is even the mildest case of at tuberculosIs in your home Is either cither to o find some other home for the youngster or to get the affected peron per per- son on into some sanatorium In the prevention of ot tuberculosis Ifor for the future the home as the source of ot most of ot the cases es will be the center of ot interest b by public health For or experts point out that most of the he tuberculosis occurring among children is due to infection directly from rom grownups having that disease inthe in inthe the he same home Usually the adult with tuberculosis sis suffers rs for a long time with what is s supposed to be a cold or chronic bronchitis before medical aid is sought You wont won't suspect that perSon peron per per- son on of at anything more serious probably ably sq so there is plenty of ot opportunity for or you and your our children to become infected before proper hygienic precautions precautions pre pre- precautions cautions are arc established Most of the adults in a home might have lave had mild infections infectIon of tuberculosis tuber in childhood and so arc are protected protected pro pro- to some extent against the disease But not so so among children The average child which us usually re re- a small infection may if It his bod body receives a l large dose of at organ organ- isms sms come down seriously with the disease So widespread is tuberculosis that 30 per cent of boys and girls exam exam- ned med in Philadelphia by the time th they y reach five years of age gave a positive ive tive tive- tive reaction indicating that at some sometime sometime sometime time they had already been Infected although mildly with tuberculosis In childhood tuberculosis must be diagnosed by the special nature of the infection This is usually an involvement of the glands at the roots of the lungs lunes a If It the disease remains confined to these glands lands until healing has occurred occurred oc oc- oc the child is not seriously sick I It f however the germs get out of these hese glands and into the lungs or orf orif orif if f they get into the blood vessels and are thereby carried to the bones or joints or to the spinal cord and andrain brain rain an exceedingly serious serious' illness Is s produced Whenever a child has a constant cough whenever he has a low v daily fever ever and loses weight whenever there here seems to be a continually tired feeling celing and a tendency to sweat excessively excessively ex ex- ex medical attention should be e brought in with a view to determining determining deter deter- mining whether tuberculosis is present pres pres- ent entA A stationary weight in a child who should be growing is a sign of at some significance although it is not con con- In addition to these symptoms and signs igns however a more certain diagnosis di dl- can be made by the lie lIn in test and by the use of the X ray X-ray ray picture of the childs child's chest These facts should be kept in mind mindIn In n regard to all children but par par- in regard to children who lIve ive in homes where there is a grownup grown grown- up who has tuberculosis