Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-18 | Page 7 | Daily Health Service

i I I I I J o I Daily Health Service By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN You'd be only partly right if you ou blamed sinus infection of at children on such controllable things as bad ventilation damp houses and clothing clothing cloth cloth- ing irig and exposure to cold The Tho remainder re remainder remainder re- re of the causes for this troublesome condition will be found in circumstances that permit the infectious germ to multiply and make things worse vorse Such circumstances include deli deti- deficient dent clent general hygiene errors of or diet bad climatic conditions and not in infrequently infrequently in- in In-I In frequently abnormalities in the structure of the tho nose and enlarged and adenoids The sinuses begin to develop when the child is young but may not attain their full growth g until the fifteenth year ear of age By the tile fifth or at sixth year they are arc large enough to cause trouble if it they become become become be be- come infected Complications may affect the brain th the cars ears or other structures associated with the sinuses You can tell a child with a chronic sinus infection by tho the fact that it is pale faced and easily Usually there is a fairly chronic running of af the noso nose and some difficulty in breathing The child gets well from one col cold only to catch another which gets worse at night and in the early morning There is also loss of appetite appetite appetite appe appe- tite deficient general development and Intermittent or constant hoarse hoarse- ness Headaches occur in 20 per cen cent of the children dren with chronic sinus infection and secondary earaches and swellings of the glands of the thc neck aro are exceedingly common Somo Some persons insist that food isan Isan is isan an exceedingly important factor in r relation lation to sinus infections One i i even goes so far as to say that a deficiency of vitamin A Is of chief Importance Another argues that when there is an excess of starch and meat Inthe in inthe inthe the diet the sinuses become af af- af- af Still another feels that the lack of calcium Is the important factor The mere fact that these different opinion are offered would seem to indicate that tho the person who is likely likely like like- ly to bo infected should eat a well well- balanced diet with all the tho important vitamins mineral salts and proteins pro pro- if It he wants to keep his body In m the best possible shape to avoid infection Wo We know that infections the sinuses are much more frequent in some parts of ol the tho world than in others and that in the United States the areas around great bodies of water develop more cases of sinus infection than arc are seen In the dry southwest Practically ever everybody body is agreed that enlargement of the tho tonsils and adenoids i Is frequently associated with infections of the sinuses es This does not mean however that al all tonsils and adenoids ought to be bo re re- re moved It does mean that suitable Investigation investigation should be made of ot the tonsils tonsils tonsils ton ton- sils and adenoids in every case and whenever there is any indication indication indica indica- indication tion that the they are falling to cope satisfactorily with Infections they should bo be cut out promptly