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Show Precautions Against Polio (Fifth of a series of articles on the scientific background of the safeguards safe-guards against poll.) The symptoms of Infantile paru'-ysis paru'-ysis olten are so confusing that they I may be mistaken for other disease or may be so mild as to be entirHv overlooked. Doctors, experienced In the problems of polio, say that rie-lajed rie-lajed or neglected treatment can lead to serious crippling. For that reason the National Foundation for j Infan.lle Paralysis during epidemics epidem-ics warns parents, "den t delay calling call-ing a physician." Scientific authori-! authori-! ties agree wl.h them that prompt Diedlcil attention and treatment of a case of Infantile paralysis at the very first signs of Illness can pre vent dcfoimltics from developing and thus save the child from a life of crippling. Parents must be on the alert during dur-ing these dangerous summer months when polio is rampant for such minor symptoms as sore throat, unexplained un-explained fever, stomach upset, vo-niLlr.g, vo-niLlr.g, irrhca or constipation. In addition a child may be lrritablf and complain of soreness In arms and legs or stiffness in the back and neck. Doctors realize that those symp'.oms may not always Indicate Infantile paralysis but they point out that in many instances these signs proved to be the beginning of an lnfantlc paralysis infection. So much serious crippling has resulted re-sulted In children in which these signs have been overlooked that doctors would rather consider thpse children to be infantile paralysis patients and treat them as such until un-til p:oven otherwise. Early medical care, doctors assert, can prevtent a slight muscle weakness, unnoticed at first, from becoming a crippling deformity handicapping the child in later life. |