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Show T 6A lokeilda Review North, Wednesday, Juno 22, 1983 Bummer By CHIRYL ARCHIBALD ' Review Correspondent 'BOUNTIFUL More than 000 people are treated in the akeview Hospital emergency room every month, with summer bringing more injuries than other times of the year. A class held in the hospital dining room recently offered tips to O m llrajjtiifiiQB, Oilmen t Irasfeme the heart beating again by heart massage or stimulation. Safe places to be in a lightning storm are a closed automobile, a house, or low down in a ditch. Vacationers suffer from travelers diarrhea abroad be- cause of organisms present in food and water. Antibiotics should be taken along on trips to foreign countries. One of our fielp people care for minor at home. nurses took some on her vacaIt was sixth in a series of tion and was passing them out monthly "Health and Wellness" to everyone," said Mrs. es conferences at Lakeview. Up Wanner. Other dangers of summer, fQr discussion were such things hs broken bones, bruises, burns, she explained, are childrens bee stings, and bites. she felt they should bigwheels ; Registered nurse Cecile Wanbe banned; lawnmowers she ner, who is emergency room recalled an incident in which a charge nurse, said the first man almost lost his toes except question asked pf an injured that he was wearing heavy person in the emergency room leather shoes; edgers they is when he received the most cause eye injuries; and seconrecent tetanus shot. "During dary water sprinkler heads the recent floods, people came they can cause infectiosn to in in droves for tetanus shots," open wounds. she said. Usually the last boosDr. Steven Mimnaugh, ter is given at age 15 and should emergency room physician, exbe given every 10 years there- plained that arachnids were the main class of insects which bite. after. .Those who worship the sun, Such pests as ticks, spiders, and especially the suntan, were wasps, and scorpions belong in given precautions by Mrs. Wan- that class. ner to use sunscreen to prevent Ticks, he said, bury their burning, rather than suffering heads in the skin and feed on the later. She said people can be- blood. We get people in the come very sick from sunburn. emergency room who want Burning can cause skin can- ticks removed, but they can do it at home. He recommended cer, so those with fair skin those with less melanin, or dark turning the tick with tweezers should use sunsc- either clockwise or counterpigment reen designated as 13 for sun clockwise to loosen the hold and then pulling the tick out.. protection, she said. If the head remains, remove For every 1,000 feet of altitude, there is 5 percent more it because it causes the infecchance of sunburn. On water, tion. Then disinfect the area. It the likelihood increases 15 per- would take three or four hours cent, and in snow there is an 85 of feeding from a tick to cause percent greater chance of sun- the Rocky Mountain spotted burn than usual. We see a lot of fever or Colorado fever that face and eye burns in the winter ticks carry, he said. The black widow spider has a on skiers," said Mrs. Wanner. .If prevention has failed and bite that is painful, causes mussunburn is imminent, the best cle spasms and, in the very treatment is to drink fluids to young and old, can cause prevent dehydration. Clean blis- paralysis of the respiratory systers with soap and water and tem and death. Weve seen several cases apply neosporin ointment, being careful not to break any blis- where the spiders were in the basement in a laundry basket, ters, she advised. ; For third degree burns of any Mimnaugh said. The female is kind, those which go through all the dangerous one, with its dark s three skin layers, the treatment black color and red is to apply cold compresses, on the ventril side. The brown recjuse spider neosporin, and keep dirt out of large burn areas with a gauze hides and is less aggressive, but has a very dangerous bite, aldressing. For lacerations or cuts, though it is not as painful as the stitches may be needed if the black widow bite at first. Within cut is over a joint or on the face hours, however, a bite will start to minimize scarring and infec- to pit the skin, scab, radiate tions. We hardly ever see a redness, and become very painful. Then you will know its a head laceration get infected, said Mrs. Wanner, because the bite from a recluse. We will cuts usually bleed so much and treat the bite with ice, steroids, are usually not as bad as they at antibiotics, or by excising the first appear." Cuts on the head bite," Minnaugh said. can be treated at home by The recluse spider is brown with a violin shape on its back. scrubbing or soaking. : To treat abrasions where the In a severe reaction, the victim top layer of skin is scraped, on will get a high fever, start to Children, its a good idea to put shake and could eventually die. them in a tub of water to The yellow-jackwasp has thoroughly clean the skinned the most harmful of all insect area and then treat the wound bites because it can sting relike a burn. We see abrasions a peatedly, and some people severe reactions to the lot from motorcycle accidents," Mrs. Wanner said. poison. For local, normal reactions to Contusions, or bruises, should be treated with cold packs, and any kind of bee sting, Mimusually can be treated at home. naugh recommended ice,, bak; :One of the worst things abing powder paste, or Adolphs out dog bites is they become Meat Tenderizer paste. Some Infected so easily. For that advocate the tenderizer Reason the bitten one would do cause the enzymes which break well to see a doctor for antibiot- down the meat also break down ics. Mrs. Wanner said that the poisons from the wasp or 'stitches are not generally used bee, he said. For hypersensitive reactions, and if they have to be then they are stitched loosely. The most he said to get a doctors treatImportant thing is that the ment. There are bee sting kits ground should be thoroughly available for hypersensitive cleansed. people, and Mimnaugh recomLightning strikes about 400 mended carrying one on outpeople each year with a third of door trips. Hives, dizziness, and those accidents being fatal, unconsciousness are signs of a ijlost of the time the victim is severe reaction to bee stings. tunned and burned, but the Mimnaugh said that he has .'heart can also stop beating, never had to treat a snake bite paramedics can usually start in the emergency room or in the -- A 4 wilds, but if he ever had to he poison was caustic, and get him said he would apply a loose tour- to the hospital. Bring the bottle of the substniquet, keep the victim cool and ance taken to the hospital. I he to where a him hospital get have sent many a parent back n e would be given home to get the container, serum. Cutting an X over the bite Mimnaugh said. For eye poisonings it is best to is controversial, and could irrigate the eyes with water and cause more harm, he said. get the person to the hospital. In the case of a How do you know if bumps or Mimnaugh said the first nicks are serious? Mimnaugh to the do would be get thing to water out of the lungs by jiggl- said that deformities of a limb ing the person or squeezing the or severe pain that continues could mean a fracture. resuschest. A cut is serious if fatty tissue citation should then be applied to get the victim breathing is showing. It will probably need stitches. again. Loss of sensation is also an Many times, when we get indicator of serious injury. in the revived person the hospitTo tell if a head bump is a al, thats when the problems concussion or something else of start, he said, because of the a serious nature, watch for fluid pulmonary edema, the infec- leakage from ears or nose, untion, and the lack of oxygen to one evenly dilated pupils the brain. large, one small lethargy, When a child accidentally confusion, and recurrent takes a poisonous substance, nausea. call the Poison Control Center, Paramedics are told to asdilute the poison in the stomach sume that there is a neck injury by giving large amounts of milk whenever they respond to an or water to the victim to drink, accident victim, said anti-snak- ve-no- near-drownin- g, . Cardio-pulmonar- y make him vomit unless the ; de-vel- ; v COMPUTER TRAINING and honeat values tat ua present our ' Beat Prices " tor your hotna repair and a. 11 && andprotitabtafuturaa. 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