Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-09-27
w Onan'S World.
BABIES IN SUMMER.
Special Care and Treatment During this
Te.thlnK Period.


The hygienic treatment of a baby
attacked with diarrhea is explained
by DR.. Rowe of Buffalo as follows:
When an infant is attacked with
diarrh9a in the summer time one
of the most important things to do
is to keep it perfectly clean and cool.
This will require considerable hard
work on the part of the mother or
nurse, but it will do very much
towards saving the baby's life. The
room occupied by the sick child
should be large, perfectly clean and
well ventilated. 1t is hardly posi-
BILE to give these little sufferers too
much fresh air. Diapers should be
changed after each movement of the
bowels and those that are soiled re-
moved to distant room to be
washed. A bath two or three times
day of moderately strong salt
water is not only cleansing but de-
cidely refreshing and stimulating
1t also prevents that peculiar ''sour-
smelling condition so common in
summer diarrhea, The water for
the bath may be either very hot or
cool, but not tepid, as tepid baths
are weakening. If there is much
fever the temples, forehead and
wrists may be bathed frequently in
cool water which has a tendency to
keep down the fever.
A child sick with summer diarrhea
is to be kept quiet and not taken up
and carried about the room every
time it cries. This precaution is
most imperative. | have seen many
a mother hasten to the cradle every
time the child would cry, take it up
in her arms and walk the floor with
it until it would stop crying. Now
such treatment will not only spoil a
well baby but it will make sick one
worse, and especially if it is sick with
bowel trouble.
A grown person does not want to
be jolted or carried about if he has
an attack of cholera morbus, and an
infant is the same way.
A sick child that cries considera-
bly, does so because it has pain, and
the pain is generally located in the
stomach or bowels. In a case of
summer diarrhea the child should
be comfortably but not too warmly
covered and lie on firm mattress.
| have seen instances in which the
child was almost buried in large
pillow or feather mattress, 50 that it
could scarcely get a breath of fresh
air.
Food Much depends upon proper
food for these cases, and there is
nothing quite equal to the mothers
milk, provided she herself is in good
health. If the child is bottled-fe
the bottle is to be scalded twice daily
and the rubber nipple washed after
each feeding. Two parts milk and
one part water with a little sugar
added makes good food for a bottle
fed child. 1t may be necessary to
change the food at times, for what
will agree with one will disagree
with another. Such articles of diet
as scalded milk, barley water, boiled
flour, rice and milk, milk and arrow
root, kumyss and a number of the
artificial food stuffs may be used in
these cases.
Medical Treatment: There are
numerous drugs used in this disease,
but l shall only mention a few that l
consider safe and efficient. l espec-
tally advise against the giving of
soothing syrups and cordials, for
they are almost certain to impair
the stomach and aggravate the dis
ease. The child's tongue should al,
ways be examined and if it is found
to be coated white as it often is, and
if it cries a good deal, the following
medicine may be prepared by the
druggist and given: Take fluid ex-
tract nux vomica, drops four; pow
dered bismuth, grains five; water,
ounces four; mix. Dose Teaspoon
full every four hours.
If the discharges are frequent and
thin, and if there is fever, give the
following: Take fluid extract ipecac,
drops five; water ounces four; mix.
Dose: Teaspoonful every two or
three bOurs. If there is much vomit-
ing IA tea made from peach tree bark
will Oh i