Show nose nos e solutions Lions curb number of Opera operations Lions dy ry DR JAMES W BARTON IT T IS very gratifying to note the number of operations in the nose and its adjoining sinuses is becoming fewer every year in former days any little blockage of the HEALTH cin C in nose by a bent septum partition COLUMN between nostrils or by an enlarged turbinate bone was corrected by operation operations often meant loss of the lining membrane of the nose with total or partial loss of smell and the loss of the resisting power of the nose in warding off inflict infections ions also today the use of salt and water or epinephrine or ephedrine d ri ne solutions by shrinka shrinking ng the lining membrane of the nose give the necessary relief in a great many cases this shrinking of the lining or mucous membrane also helps the mucous in the sinuses to drain out properly nose and throat specialists state that if if the air air can get into the sinuses thus thu S ventilating them there would be no accumulation of mucous or pus in the sinuses and thereby V many cases of catarrh and deafness would be prevented the drugs generally used to shrink the dr barton mucous membrane are epinephrine adrenalin and ephedrine the chinese drug in order to get the shrinking solution into the upper and lower halves of the sinuses the method now coming into general use is to lower the head either well forward or to either side dr sidney N parkinson oakland calif in the journal of the american medical association recommends that the patient lie on his side with the head bent downward exactly sidewise weight being on shoulder shrinkage methods some shrinkage is first obtained by the use of ephedrine solution in an atomizer this may require five to ten minutes the patient is then placed in the sidewise head low position and solution of ephedrine is is placed in both nostrils after three to five minutes the head is turned face downward to permit the solution and any mucous to come away from the nostrils even when used at home salt epinephrine or ephedrine solutions by this simple method enable all the lining mem membranes brimes to be reached and should give excellent results regul ts the spraying or placing of drops up the nose fails to reach much of this lining membrane |