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Show 7 Early Removal Of Tonsils May Affect Sinuses By DR. JAMES W. BARTON (Released by Western Newspaper Union. ) WHEN it was found some 30 years ago that infected infect-ed tonsils caused rheumatism rheuma-tism and rheumatism caused heart disease, there were thousands thou-sands of children chil-dren who had their tonsils removed re-moved if they TODAY'S HEALTH COLUMN had one attack of simple sore throat. Also, tonsils that were larger than normal, without any symptoms whatever, what-ever, were removed. However, that the tonsils are useful use-ful organs up to the age of puberty (14 to 16) is admitted, admit-ted, so that physicians physi-cians today do not advise removal of tonsils unless there are repeated attacks of tonsillitis. If one or more attacks of tonsillitis are followed fol-lowed by rheumatic attacks a few weeks later, the removal of the tonsils is usually advised. There has arisen Dr. Barton in recent years a new problem of sinus infection, sinusitis as it is called. And physicians are telling us that there is more sinus infection now because of the early removal of tonsils which were doing some of the work done "by the sinuses. The increase in the amount of work to be done by the sinuses filtering blood and air preventing nose, throat and chest aliments, is increasing in-creasing the number of cases of sinusitis. An examination of school children with and without tonsils by Dr. Kay-ser, Kay-ser, Rochester, N. Y., who has done so much research work on tonsils, found that sinus infection occurred more often in those whose tonsils had been removed during their early ear-ly years. Allergy Sometimes the Cause. That sinus trouble is not always dwe to infection is pointed out by Dr. E. C. Mitchell, Memphis, Tenn., in West Virginia Medical Journal, who states that allergy (sensitiveness (sensitive-ness to various substances) can set up an irritation in a sinus which the patient, and sometimes the physician, phy-sician, may believe due to infection. infec-tion. He points out that if allergy or sensitiveness is causing the disturbance dis-turbance in the sinus, the material dropping into the throat is liquid or fluid and the lining of sinus and nose is pale, whereas in infection of the sinus, the material is a thick mucous and the lining of sinus and back of nose is red and boggy. Relief for the 'Hard of Hearing' MOST physicians dislike recommending recom-mending new remedies or forms of treatment to those who are hard of hearing because they do not wish to raise false hopes in these patients. The hard of hearing patient, because he misses so much of what is going on around him, gradually grows moody, keeps looking look-ing inward instead of outward, and to have his hopes raised only to be dashed down, increase his mental depression. The use of prostigmin an ovary extract has given some help in cases of hard of hearing due to catarrh. ca-tarrh. From the Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat Monthly, comes the report of another series of cases of "partial" deafness in which prostigmin was used. Twenty-eight patients with head noises and acute or recent blockage of the eustachian tube (tube carrying carry-ing air from back of throat to inner side of ear drum), most of whom had marked deafness, were given injections in-jections of 1 cubic centimeter of prostigmin methyl-sulphate, 1 to 2,000 solution, at intervals of from three to five days, together with the opening up of the eustachian tube by the use of an instrument and massage. There was rapid relief from the annoying symptoms and few patients required more than five injections even where there had been loss of hearing for as long as one month. Thirty-three chronic cases of deafness deaf-ness were treated by similar injections injec-tions two to three times weekly, with resulting gradual improvement or very slow improvement. Remember, prostigmin is a gland product and should be given by, or only under the direction of a physician. |