New Britain herald., 1914-07-17
WHAT EVERY MOTHER WANTS
 TO KNOW ABOUT HER BABY Anna Steese Richardson Director of the Better Babies Bureau of the Woman's Home Companion Ques- E tions of Many Mothers Answered. NO. 1-Summer Complaint
NO. Summer Complaint.

! for twelve hours. Better still, old l linen or cheesecloth can be used and burned.
 1 4-Is it caused by teething? No, but it often appears when l child is teething, because some of the 1 largest and most troublesome teeth 1 appear during the babys second sum- mer Also because the child, being partially or wholly weaned at this ] time, is given food which it should 1 not have.
 5-What is the commonest cause? l Impure milk. After that, milk or 1 any other food improperly prepared; i; 1 overfeeding, unsanitary surroundings; l lack of care.
 ! 6-What are the symptoms? Restlessness; drawing up of legs in pain; sharp, piercing cries; followed 1 bA frequent movements of the bowels 1 increasing from four to twelve a day, and changing from yellow to greenish- l yellow, then to bright green. with per | haps a frothy look. If the attack is 1 not checked, the temperature rises to l 1c3 degrees, tongue, is coated and dry. eyes dull and sunken, face pfnched and drawn bowel movements as fre- quent as twenty day, rapid pulse, heavy breathing. hands and feet l clammy and blue, stupor, or coma
 and death.
 What is the best home treat
 ment?
 No treatment can compare in value with prevention. But if preventive
 measures fail and your baby is at- tecked with diarrhoea, send at once for your physician. Until he arrives,
 stop all food. If the coming of the doctor is delayed, start cleaning the
 poison from the system with cathar- tics. Castor oil is best. Dose-three to six months, one teaspoonful; six to nine months, one and one-half tea spoonfuls; nine to twelve months, two to four teaspoonfuls; one year to two.
 cne tablespoonful. If the baby can
 not retain castor oil, give calomel Dose--three months, one-half grain;
 six months, five-eights of grain;
 nine months three-quarters of a
 grain; one year, one grain. Buy the
 calomel in tablets of 1-10 of grain
 each. Dissolve tablet in water and
 give every fifteen minutes until the
 full dose has been taken. Five hours
 later, give castor oil or citrate of mag
 nesia to carry off the calomel. Inject
 one quart of warm water in which
 one teaspoonful of salt is dissolved,
 into the lower intestines or colon to
 wash out the poison. If temperature
 causes thirst, do not give milk or cold
 water. Give sips of boiled water as
 lot as the baby will take it. Do not
 give paregoric, soothing syrup or
 pa tent medicine of any sort.
 8--How soon after the attack sub-
 sides, can a child be given regular
 feelings?
 Not for at least two weeks after
 the attack subsidies. In the meantime
 begin feeding in very small quantities.
 A breast-fed baby should be allowed
 to nurse only a few minutes in-
 stead of the full twenty minutes. A
 bottle-fed baby is given rice water or
 a.bumen water first, then boiled
 skinned milk with rice water. Gradually increase the milk and re- duce the water until the regular schedule of feeding is resumed. 9-How can I protect my baby from summer complaint? There is no infallible rule. Keep ] the food and all utensils in which it 1 is prepared immediately clean. Keep l the baby cool and clean. If he is old enough to drink water, give him only ] water which has been boiled and then cooled in stoppered bottle.