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Show wise is neglected. Vfter colds, stomach troubles probably prob-ably prove the most troublesome. Every Ev-ery child will overeat or eat unwisely if given a chance. When "children of a larger growth" do It, you can't blamo the youngsters. Colic is henco a common com-mon ailment among tho children. To relieve It place a hot-water bottle, a hot brick or plate on the pit of the stomach. An old-fashioned remedy which often gives relief is a spico plaster mado of equal parts of ginger, cloves, cinnamon and allspice placed between layers of thin flannel or cheesecloth and tho pad soaked with hot whisky. This is laid on the abdomen. abdo-men. A soda mint tablet, dissolved In warm water and given every half-hour will very often help. A sour or disturbed stomach can be relieved by lime water or milk of magnesia. mag-nesia. If tho stomach seems very sick and the child cannot vomit induce vomiting by giving it a lemon to suck, a doso of ipecac, mustard water, or by gagging it with your finger in tho mouth. Whero vomiting does not stop and tho child cannot keep food In tho stomach, givo limo water or apply a mustard plaster (one part of mustard to five of flour) to the pit of tho stomach. stom-ach. In all cases of stomach trouble it Is well to give a cathartic, or oven an irrigation of tho bowels with warm water and a fountain syringe. Food should also be stopped for from six to eight hours, and then only warm gruols, barley water or cereals given for tho first meal. For diarrhoea follow about tho same course, no food and then light foods until tho trouble has stopped. Hot milk will sometimes be found to stop diarrhoea. Fover In a child is not as dangerous a symptom as in a grown-up, becauso children thus register the least change in their stato of health. It is often, however, tho forerunner of a contagious contagi-ous disease and should not bo disregarded. disre-garded. A cathartic, regulation of diet or entire withholding of food and an alcohol friction bath will help to reduce re-duce tho fever unless the disease is too far under way, when tho physician should bo called. Tho alcohol bath is given to a small part of the body at a time. Equal parts of water and alcohol al-cohol Is used for tho bath and rubbed briskly but lightly into tho skin until it is dry. It is tho evaporation with tho friction which brings tho blood to the surface and reduces the fever. Earache, neuralgia and sometimes toothache in children may bo rellovcd by hot hop pillows or a hot salt bag. Thcso ailments may come from cold or from adenoids or bad teeth. Bruises are not sorlous, but may bo rclioved with hot comi resscs of water or witch hazel. A pasto of opBom salts will relievo and keep down swelling swell-ing from an injur'. Poisons should never bo loft within a child's reach. If they aro taken by accident seek tho poison bottle and np-ply np-ply tho antidote suggested, A list of antidotes should be kept conspicuously conspicuous-ly In tho medicine chest. If you don't know what to do givo an emotlc immediately im-mediately to induco vomiting. For noso-blccd do not allow tho child to blow tho nose, but hold it shut or plug It with gauze moistened with vinegar, while Ice Is applied to tho back of tho neck. Frequent noso-blecd noso-blecd should be called to tho attention of tho physician. It may moan adenoids ade-noids or ulceration of tho noso. When tho childcLs something In his ear, try a douche of warm oil, or a syrlngo of warm salt water (a tea-spoonful tea-spoonful to a pint). Tho same can bo used for a foreign btdy in tho nose. Tickling tho noso with a feather will mako tho child sneezo and dlslodgo tho object. An Insect in tho ear will often be coaxed out by a bright light hold closo to the ear. For choking or for somothlng in tho nose turn tho child upsido down and Bpank him a la 'Lovey Mary" style. |