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Show Your Baby Mild Smelling Salts Will Help Child 'Catch' Her Breath By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED Our free) leaflet, "Nervous Habltt," includes breath holding at well at a discussion of nail biting, head banging and tuch manlfeita-tlont manlfeita-tlont of nervoui Instability. It may be had by tending a 3-cent stamped, self-addressed envelope with your letter to Mrs. Eldred of the your baby and mine department, in care of The Salt Lake Telegram. It has never been the aim of this department to frighten parents by an enumeration of symptoms which might make them see bogies where no bogies were. It it also gross negligence to fall to point out that some symptoms appear to point In but one direction. "I have a little girl but 2 and one-half year old," writes Mr. R. M. F., "and whenever the fellt down and get! a bad bump the holdt her breath. She Just can't seem to help It but teemt to hurt and frightened. Usually, th holdt her breath so long that she it flumped over and almost unconscious uncon-scious before the can map out of it and cry. She never holdt her breath from temper and I am afraid that it what th doctor would tell me. "Will the outgrow thit? Or, will It get worse? Should I take her to a clinic or a child specialist? special-ist? I would appreciate It if you would glv m your opinion." I feel lure no child specialist would think of telling you that this was caused by temper tantrums. tan-trums. A child doesn't have a temper tantrum when she Is hurt. This It the way children act when their thymus glands are oversized and so tend to suffocate them temporarily tem-porarily when they are emotional from any cause. The thymus gland does decrease In size with age and so it Is quite possible for children who held their breaths in infancy to outgrow out-grow this tendency, because the thymus it no longer pressing on the respiratory organs. But, sine there i always some danger that Mi thymus may Impede breathing to a dangerout extent It were better to find out its size and take some meant of reducing It An X-ray picture of the thymut gland, which it in the upper chest will tell ltt own story and then there need be no guessing and no regrets. If it is oversized. X-ray treatments will reduce It to normal nor-mal size. If it it not, then you can us a mild smelling-salts to help the child to catch her breath mora quickly. |