Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-12 | Page 6 | Health Advice

HEALTH : . ADVICE By Morris Rshbein . ! Editor. Jwnwl the America Med-ieal Med-ieal AneclsrlM There are certain tunes ef the year when the pollens begin to blow and persons who are sensitive sensi-tive to them begin to suffer with the sneezing, coughing and mucous mu-cous membrane congestion typical ..of hay fever. During the spring, the pollens of trees-are the most common offenders of-fenders in causing hay fever. , In the early summer the pollens come from grasses, rosea, corn; such flowers aa the daisy, dandelion dande-lion and lily, and such weeds as the pigweed, smartweed and dock. Timothy is aa important cause of hay fever from June through August Redtop is a frequent cause from June through September, Septem-ber, and orchard grass from March through August The hay fever that occurs in the fall usually is more severe, lasts longer and affects more pie-pie pie-pie than that occurring In the early spring and summer. Fail hay fever is caused mostly by the pollens ef the ragweed and aage-brush, aage-brush, which flower at that time.' The pigweed and tumbleweed may also go to seed and spread their. 11m. Many of the grasses have second sec-ond period of poUenation late In the summer. These are, of course, windblown plants and weeds. There are other plants in which the pollen is not blown about by , the wind. In such cases the patient pa-tient gets the pollen by putting his nose down into the flower to smell it and thus inhales the pollen. Symptoms of hay fever usually continue until the flowers of the ragweed are killed by frost in September or October. If the autumn au-tumn is unusually hot, the hay fever may last much longer. In some people, symptoms continue con-tinue even after the first frost because be-cause enough of the pollens have been taken into the body and enough disturbance caused to carry car-ry the discomfort over until proper prop-er treatment is applied. Sensitivity to pollens is not exclusively ex-clusively a condition associated with the rich or the poor, the proud or the humble, the aristocrat aristo-crat or the commoner. It has affected all alike. Daniel Webster, it is said, suffered suf-fered from hay fever 20 years, but did not have the symptoms during one summer which he spent in Scotland. Henry Ward Beecher had hay fever and obtained relief re-lief when he went to the Catskill mountains. Judge Gary said that be got relief from his hay fever in northern north-ern Michigan. But Henry Mencken has had hay fever for a good many yeara and claims that he has not bad relief anywhere. As people have traveled about and aa intercommunication hM grown, certain districts which formerly had the reputation of being free from hay fever have lost that distinction because people peo-ple from other sections have brought ragweed and other products prod-ucts of civilisation in with them. Next: Types of hay fever.