Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-21 | Page 6 | Adice on Your Health

Advice on Your Health By Morris Fishbein Editor Journal American Medical Since science has learned that human beings may be sensitive to all ali sorts of proteins we have found that some people react much more than others to insect bites We know that there is such sensitivity and that sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times the response to the bite of ofa ofa ofa a fly or the sting of a bee or wasp is far more serious in some people than in others Not long ago a woman was bitten bitten bitten bit bit- ten by deer flies while in the woods in upper New York state Following these bites she became became became be be- came subject to blisters which appeared all alJ over her body The condition is called Insect Insect Insect In In- sect bites have been known to cause prolonged in some people Even deaths have been reported from this cause The reactions have occurred not not only after the bite of deer deerflies deerflies deerflies flies and the stings of bees and wasps but also after the bites of mosquitoes fleas bedbugs and sand flies Experts in allergy or in the treatment of sensitivity have endeavored to des desensitize ens 1 t i z e patients to such bites by injecting injecting injecting inject inject- ing them with extracts of the insects concerned These extracts have been made of bee venom of bodies of mosquitoes and of other insect species Unfortunately the result resul not curative in everyOne every One report showed that 2 i people who were were Injected bee venom extra 15 completely relieved and ands six ill illers ers improved 1 I People may be sensitive to 10 toil sting of one insect but not t that of others in the same sine to fox ily By An instance Is reported r which a man was vas stun stung hi bj il a hornet when he was 12 yean and was unconscious for an to toC When he was 63 years ol oil b 1 was stung by a jad and was unconscious for 20 min utes At the age of 65 he be s i stung by a yellow 5 w unconscious for more than thai nrc hours and was quite W several weeks thereafter i In Inthis this case it was found that it itman man was sensitive to the home horw an yellow-jacket yellow but Mt not the honey bee or the burnt bumble bf since the stings of these to did not affect him in buy any 3 People who respond with mu t u W manifestations the stings of insects alg might i determine whether or not ware w it are especially sensitive JJ 1 tests may be made by s ph-s who specialize in making a s. s of sensitivity to various pa pro S- S substances