Show t an anBy t R aP By Lulu Hunt Peter 0 Mn M D eel ei f and ec ie fir Children r ANSWERS TO MOTHERS God could not be everywhere therefore lIe He made mothers Jew Jewish Jew Jew- I ish proverb CHLORINE GAS FOR COLDS COLDS COLDS' s sAND AND WHOOPING COUGH Mrs 0 O. wants to know if there Is Is any bad effect possible from the use of chlorine inhalers for whooping cough She had one used on her S- S i- i old year son for whooping cough with actual immediate results but afterwards he ran a a. temperature for tor fora a a. long time In a series of cases that were reported reported reported re re- re- re ported in the American l Journal there were beneficial results with colds if they were treated right in the beginning There were only eight cases of whooping cough treated ith with quite favorable results but thi this series would be too small to base any definite conclusions upon There were no ill III effects that tha tha could be attributed directly to the treatment except some irritation of the mucous membrane which some sometimes sometimes some some- times lasted a a few hours The chlorine treatment was tried dut by liy the New York city department department department depart depart- ment of health ans and dropped as it was found that of patients only 6 per cent were benefited The health department nt stated that the treatment was harmful In asthma hay f fever v r and tuberculosis t tI I I think think it it if is s possible that the temperature your little bo boy continued continued continued contin contin- to have was due to the disease rather than to the chlorine treatment treat treat treat- ment Whooping hoopIng cough must not be looked lightly b by parents forit for forit forit it may be a serious disease especially especially especially espe espe- in very young children The Th cause of ot whooping cough ough is a a. den deft definite nite germ and it is spread pread by comIng coming coming com com- ing In contact with the fresh secretions secretions secretions secre secre- from one one who Is suffering from the disease Whooping cough should really eallY be a quarantine disease Children suffering from it should be kept out of doors as much as as' as possible in the sunshine but not with other children except when th they y are coughing very much when I they should be in bed A tight abdominal abdominal abdominal ab ab- binder seems to give a aI I great deal of pf comfort to to the child while coughing Frequent vomiting after the cough is the cause of childrens children's childrens chil- chil chil chil- drens dren's becoming and the undernourishment causes the the cough to hang on longer than usual After a u child vomits he should be given ghen a nourishing drink of cream soup or egg nog NORM NORMAL L TEMPERATURE OF CHILDREN pHILDREN Mrs W. W W. W W-At W At birth the temperature temperature temperature tempera tempera- ture is usually that of the mother F F F. It and soon becomes become 99 degrees varies from 98 6 to 99 tl throughout t the greater great r part of Infancy y and chUd childhood The normal temperature re of adults is degrees degrees- A te temperature taken pet taken in inthe the r rec turn tum is If always one to one and and and-a- iv half halt when taken in degrees higher higher- than the mouth The thermometer I should be held In the mouth fully full three minutes and as long in in the rectum When taken under the arm armit armit armit it should be held at le least st for five or orix six ix minutes or longer The per per- should be wiped off oft and and and the thermometer placed d snugly hithe in iii inthe the f fold ld and the arm held down do to the the side sid Mrs M. M It M.-It It takes some time after after weaning the baby for the milk mUk to Wholly holly leave the breasts Every Jime time you massage massago the breast to get it out you stimulate the glands grands so they produce more Just let them alone and they will dry out Usually jf if the Weaning is begun by bythe the ninth and finished b by bythe bythe the tenth by omitting one feeding or or so each week the breasts gradually gradually gradually ally stop forming th the milk When there is sudden weaning it tak takes s a little longer If It you breasts breasts' are arehea heavy hea vy you ou had better wear a support sup sup- port t Tomorrow Answers to corre corre- Copyright 1926 by py the GeorgeI George Matthew l Adams Servi Service e. e I |