Show I tl and andy Health Heth Lulu Pe MI MD j I I I fl By y Hunt I r l u lorl V HIVES Young Daughter Hubbard goes to the cupboard A box of ot strawberries she spies She hulls and she eats In five minutes she weeps She Is wild she is with Is-with with the hives Perhaps you ou would rather have hae havethe havethe the hives than m my poetic attempts The cause of or ordinary y hives urU caria carla as in some forms of eczema and asthma Is some upset of ot th the intestinal tract so 50 that some element element ele ele- dc- dc ment In the food probably the protein protein protein pro pro- tein enters the circulation In an unfit stage to be used by the tem teni This causes causes causes' an irritation of ot the b blood Is a a. spasm i pf pt their walls and the fluid part of ot the blood with some of ot th the white corpuscles escapes into the tissues tissue This produces the white swellings or wheals and the itching which I characterize the disorder Some English Investigators claim that in iii hives there Is a deficiency of ot lime Ume salts in the blood And they believe this causes the blood to go through the walls wails more readily Different Different Dif DIt- ferent foods seem to be the offenders offend offend- ers era with different people Canned meats nork shellfish strawberries and antI coffee are most frequently as- as scribed as ca causes uses Other causes There are other things that will apparently cause cause hives in susceptible people besides a derangement of or the Intestinal tr tract ct for instance direct exposure to sunlight or other light cold mechanical me- me irritations heat scratching scratching scratch scratch- ing burns decayed teeth and dIsturbing disturbing disturbing dis dIs- dis- dis emotions However it Is probable that these emotional causes act through the disturbance they exert upon digestion and It is probable that in the other cases there Is also some trouble with the normal absorption of ot foods There are quite a few people who vho suffer sutter from sunlight hives There Is a form of ot known as In which there is a little hard papule or lump left after the swelling goes down This affects children chiefly There Is for known as Giant j which the swellings are very larAn lanAn lar lan larAn An Interesting type is the tho II which Is due to caterpillar poiso polso ing During the caterpillar the tailed brown moths the ti 11 hairs of the caterpillar cate are blo blos through the air and imbibed the then selves in the skin They racy product i I tense itching It takes five to sev days for these hairs to be absorb is a form torm of ot hives which a swelling will Immediate follow a a. sharp instrument dra draW v dravo o over er th the skin and a word over the skin will stand out Treatment The treatment i fo the ordinary hives consists of ot get getting ting Ung the intestinal mucous membrane mem brane In working order again fA f d dose se of ot castor oil or a saline cathar cathartic tic followed by an exclusive mil diet or bread and milk or bette bettee D shredded wheat biscuits and mile for tor three or four days does t work In many caseIn cases case cases Milk 1 Is hi hl I In lime Other cases are benefit by an exclusive exclusively fruit diet ly bring the diet to normal addine I. I the different foods one oneat at a tim so you rou may find out which is is' t offending one r External applications are used t fo the Itching They have no effect the course of ot the rouble A lotto loto made of ot one teaspoon of carbol carboU acid one teaspoon of ot glycerine on ond ounce of ot alcohol and enough watto watto wat wate to make a mixture of ot eight ounce ounce is a good one Any dust dustIng dusting dusting ing powder such as zinc acid powder may be used usei Even ordinary laundry starch ma mat relieve If It the itching Is Intense bath containing one to four oune of ot borax or sodium bicarbonate or on ordinary baking soda may be beThe The The Tho sufferer should He lie in the bat ba for fol ten to twenty minutes keeping keepin the temperature sufficiently war to prevent chilling Tomorrow Tomorrow Epidemic Epidemic litis litls Sleeping Sickness J Copyright 1925 by the Geor Matthew Adams Service |