Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-01-16 | Page 14 | Children Got Sniffles? Here's the Cure

CHILDREN GOT SNIFFLES? HERE'S THE CURE Let Doctor Advise On Medicine By MYRTLE MEYER ELD RED Our fre leaflet, "Horn Car of Colds," often no medicinal aids, but Just a routine of sensible cart. It may b had by sending send-ing a 3-cent stamped, self-ed-dreased envelope with your letter let-ter to Mrs. Eldred of the your baby and mine department In ear of The Salt Lake Telegram. ' The children have the sniffle ' again, with runny noses, stuffed-up stuffed-up heads and coughing at night. Colds are hard on small children and there Is a real temptation for parents to dose them and salve them and drop medicines Into their .noses In a forlorn attempt to make them more comfortable. But there are real dangers In auch practices. If the parent feels that nose drops are essential to the child's comfort, then by all means let the dtcor advise and administer them. Nothing can so quickly lead to middle ear or to dangerous mastoid Infections as for parents to encourage the child to sniff medicinal salve up Into th dom or to drop medicine Inexpertly In-expertly Into It Salve and oily concoctions are th most successful success-ful carriers of Infection and It la 'such a short dlstanc from th child's no to th ear. Keep the child warm and In bed If there la even the slightest de-gree de-gree of fever. Don't bundle him up and furnish him with a handkerchief hand-kerchief and tell him to run out and play. Treat him as If he were sick. Keep him quiet Furnish Fur-nish him games and toya with which he can play In bed. Pin a paper bag beside the bed and let him drop the used paper handkerchiefs handker-chiefs Into It Put a large pitcher of mixed fruit Juices beside the bed, mad of orange and lemons and pineapple, msd tasty with sugar or bltey with ginger ale. Any fluid which will lnsplr th child to drink lots and lot of It for h need ample fluid and th cltlrc add fruit ar an aid to greater alkalinity. Keep Suspect Quietly In the House Keep fresh air In the room If the room can be warmed well; otherwise, air only at Intervals when the child Is well bundled against draugths. A day or two of such treatment will send the cold packing or uncover un-cover it real nature, which may be some dlseas more serious than a cold, of which the symptoms wr only th beginning.