The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-04
WHAT TO Do FOR GRIP.

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The first thing TO do when the aching
chilliness and fever indicate an attack
OF influenza is to go to bed III 4 quiet
well ventilated room and to have no Wis
itors except the attendant or nurse. Stop
all FOOD Tor from tWenty-fOur To forty
eight hours and secure a free action of
the bowels either by enema or by some
mid laxative as prescribed by the family
physician. who should always be called
warm bath with cold TO head, or if
that is not practicable. a hot foot or leg
bath with an ice bag to head and back of
neck will often give much reHef. especially
where there is much congestion of the
brain, high fever and delirium Where the
patient is too i'll to sir up, the legs and
leet may be wrapped In blanket wrung
out of hot water and at the same time
the head and face be sponged with either
hot or cold water. whichever seems to af-
ford the most relief
La grippe patients do not bear heroic
cold treatment well; therefore, even when
the fever is high. tepid or even warm
sponging or a tepid full bath will do more
good than using the cold water treatment
SO often useful in typhoid and other dis
eases characterized by high temperature.
The fever in influenza is often high and
may reach 1O6 degrees or more, although
IN ordinary attacks the average Is los
degrees TO 1922 degrees. 1t usually lasts
from four to six days, when it may sub
side entirely. usually leaving the patient
weak and depressed
During this time the diet as in other fe-
milk If the patient reliSheS il. and can
digest il well. and fruit juices There Is
much that can be done to lessen the Sc
verify of an attack of this disorder by
proper care during the high fever stage.
This means 10 prOVfde the patient with
fresh air.in abundance. The value of this
all potent remedial agent for the treat
ment of many diseases, notable among
which are tuberculosis and pneumonia, is
so much appreciated by the medical pro-
fession at present that in the hospitals of
Nor M Ot they
treating such patients by taking them 20
the hOusetOp and keeping them in the
open air night and day. AS many OF these
cases are pneumonia attacks Following
la grippe, it is rational to suppose that
the open air treatment which would cure
a case of pneumonia whom the patient
seemed past all hope would have prevent
ed this disorder had it been used before
the onset Of the disease 1t may require
some exercise of faith in the medicinal
virtues of fresh cool air to open all the
doors and windows of the fever patient
room on a cold winter day. or even move
him out 20 a cot on the Veranda. never
theleSs il is the pure air, which he can
not get in his own room, that he needs.
The atmosphere of the inside air is being
constantly contaminated by the eXhala-
tons from his body, as well as that OF
the nurse. and all the sources of house
air defilement potent among Whlcn are
hot air furnaces and oil, coal and gas
stoves. and lamps.
This out OF door treatment should not
De faSnly duihhitSlehSV' Du1 SANNh -
gently. The patient should be put INTO a
proper bed. preferably one with ralllnS
a few inches deep TO keep the bedding
from being displaced. and also TO shut
off currents of cold air from flowing in
under the covering and chilling the pa
tent A well heated excelsior mattress
will retain warmth a long time If q wool
en- blanket is laid under it next to the
springs, and a well warmed cotton mat
tress over il. The sheets, preferably light
weight cotton blankets. and all the upper
bedding should be warm and dry, and
hot bag laid at the feet. The patient can
be tucked into his warm nest in a warm
room and carried outside Tor fresh air
treatment for a number of hours two or
three times a day and often il IS we'll Tor
him to sleep out of doors at night.