Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-06-27 | Page 14 | Prolonged Nursing of Baby Results in Digestive Trouble

PROLONGED NURSING I OF BABY RESULTS IN i DIGESTIVE TROUBLE Bring your problems about diet general care and management of at children to Myrtle Meyer 1 Eldred Your questions will ill be bo answered promptly if you will send n a self self- addressed cd cent 3 stamped en envelope envelope en- en clope with your letter to Mrs Irs Eldred in care of tho the Your B Baby by and und Mine department of this newspaper By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED It is a common tendency to deal with symptoms rather than causes We Ve are We-are are all inclined to fail fall to see the forest for the trees The following letter offers an illustration of oC the futility of treating symptoms in instead instead instead in- in stead of uncovering their dealing with them Mrs W. W E. E M. M writes My baby is 23 months of age and I have just finished weaning him He had colitis awhile back and when he ho recovered I weaned him I dont don't know what to feed him now He ate everything he wanted through the winter but v no now nothing agrees with him He wont won't drink sweet milk and I dont don't think butter or eggs agree with him Anyway something he is eating causes him to have a rashI rash I OIl feed him well cooked oats old potatoes and sweet potatoes hot chocolate and buttermilk and bread He isn't the same child he was before he was weaned as he doesn't want to play and cries a a. lot He is pale looking but he does des sleep better He Hc threatens another attack of colitis Did I make a mistake in weaning him Will Vill tomatoes and berry juice hurt him Your mistake was not to have weaned him at a nine months This prolonged nursing is what was probably probably probably ably responsible not only for the bowel condition but for the rest of oC the childs child's infantile diet wHich contains contains contains con con- at the moment little but starch and some prot protein ln The rash may in your our case be caused b by the diet by un un- boiled sweet milk or b by chocolate Continue buttermilk using one quart a day to which about two to three ounces of sweet cream is added Offer Olter other types o of cereal barley rice wheat or cornmeal and fresh ripe bananas which are an excellent food type of cereal though they are classed as fruit Offer the jUi e of a whole orange daily or two or three ounces of the juice of ripe tomatoes or canned tomatoes Offer all meats meats except except pork and veal veal veal-or or fish or chicken once daily dally and omit eggs until you are sure whether they are related to the rash Give all kinds of vege vege- tables Butter should not upset the child Give cod liver oil or some other vitamin D daily as well as sun baths The leaflets which should prove helpful to you are Diet From Two to Four Years or the Allergic Allergic Allergic Al Al- Child and What Mothers Mother Should Know v About Eczema They may be had for a self addressed d 3 cent stamped envelope and a request for them sent to Myrtle Meyer Eldred care of the Your Baby and Mine department of ot this news newa paper