Show FACTS PACTS ABOUT TUBERCULOSIS ARTICLE 0 8 THE mE TEST Next reek week the school children of Iron County through the efforts of local tuberculosis committees will be given liven the opportunity to take the Montour pronounced toe Man test This Ibb is b a real advantage to the youth of our communities and one that tha no parent should neglect or offer otter opposition to The test la ja simple and harmless to the individual And It offers the chance to KNOW if you carry tu tu- infection or not The test Is b simply the injection of diluted tuberculin into the flexor surface of or the Arm Ann by means of a sterile needle It Involves no DO after aftereffect effects effect The patient Is 15 instructed to return after A period of 48 hours so the medical attendant can read his reaction If It the reaction is Sa ne negative negative ne- ne with that dose be the attendant attendant attend attend- ant may or may not make a second injection depending upon the pa pa- general health Malth etc If a second se second se- se cond coRd Injection is made and proves to be negative after another 48 hours the tuberculin reaction is regarded a as negative and the patient patient pa pa- tient need Deed feel no fear as aa to the possibility of Immediate infection But nut u if the reaction is Sa positive then the patient is among those many thousands who have the Infection somewhere In their thelt body If u your Our child does have a positive reaction dont don't let Jet It U terrify you or OT hint him Try to accept It quietly and act wisely In directing the dally of ot the child eo so that he will not net be subjected to undue fatigue and so 80 risk the chance of earning causing the tho infection to develop into actual disease i e Rm embr that a positive reaction reaction tion always means infection but does doe not always mean disease IJ It remains for tor the ray X-ray to establish the latter tatter as a fact X ray evidence and tests testa are still stUl the chief means meana of ferreting out the diagnosis Most yost children who show a positive pd tire tive infection do not have the disease dis dU eue ease In their lungs but rather Inthe In Inthe Inthe the lymph nodules or OT glands lands And with rea reasonable care these areas readily calcify thereby insuring the safety of or the child so 80 long as he lives a Ute life that provides the ee es- es of rest fresh air and good food Dont Don't think that because your child is s overweight he la U safe and does not need the the test The committee on Childhood Types Type of Tuberculosis from the e National Association New York has haa this tha to say The application of or m mod modern o d e ern r knowledge of h has haa revealed the widespread of grave tuberculosis Infection ind in children who are well nourished d and often apparently in g roo good o o d health Many children have the childhood childhood child hood type of tuberculosis without manifesting any symptoms that t can be ascribed to the disease Tuberculosis Tu 1 may be found in overweight over- over wel weight t. t average weight or underweight underweight underweight under under- weight children The tendency y to tire tiro easily cosily may be said to be the th e most common symptom in tn child child- rent ren Dont Don't get the mistaken notion that a positive reactor need In any sense be isolated from other children children child child- ren unless arless of course the X-ray X and laboratory tests prove he hasan has hasan hasan an open lesion in hi which case he will be given strict rest A large percentage of American people and of other people are positive re re re- actors Infection from milk and dairy products is a possibility to be considered considered considered con con- n for lor the presence of or infection or disease in little children Of course the chief source of in infection infection tn- tn Tics lias 11 s in contact with some other member of the family who has an active case of tuberculosis But nut the mere fact that your OUt neighbor neighbor neigh neigh- bor or some relative of the family has the disease is no reason to think that you and your family is endangered unless you ou have been subjected to intimate and prolong prolonged ed exposure such as II living in the thes same s same me hou household hold over an extended period of time and nursing the sick patient etc No Po one need die from bats losla It can be conquered by Intelligent Intelligent Intel Intel- cooperation of patient and doctor City CUy Tuberculosis committee |