The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-02-16
WHEN YOU Catch COLD;
JUST What OCCURS

afternoon a saline laxative-a Seidlitz
! powder, citrate of magnesia. Rochelle
salts or castor Oils given. II the
patient be seen first In the evening a
less quickly acting rathartic is advis.
able, and none is better than small
dose of calomel (from one to three
grains), depending on the age of the
individual combined with 71a to Is
grains of bicarbonate of soda. Opium
or morphine should not be given.
One of the best treatments is one
of the coal-tar products, such as an
tipyrine, acentantlid or acetphernetid-
mum, although these drugs should be
used sparingly. Aspirin is now more
largely used than any other drug to
stop colds. 1t can cause heart depres-
sion and should not be used too free
ly. If the patient is not soon to be
subjected to exposure, hot bath is
another efficient means of relieving
internal congestion.
The old-fashioned treatment of a
hot foot bath, hot whisky punch and
the patient put to bed is often success
ful. In this age, however, when 9th
er dilators of the blood vessels are
accessible, it is rarely necessary to re-
sort to alcohol.
Spraying or snuffin solutions into the
nostrils at this stage is inadvisable.
The throat may be gargled with warm
saline solution, which is roughly rep
resented by one fourth teaspoonful of
salt to half a glass of warm water.
If the second stage develops, that of
profuse mucous and some mucopuru-
lent discharge, then cleansing the
nose and throat becomes urgently
needed. At this Usage all of the forgo-
ing measures should cease. A patient
who has been more or less deprived of
food, except small amount of liquid
nourishment for from "a to SO hours,
may resume his normal diet.
The discharge from the nostris
should not be allowed to remain block
ing up the passages. Consequently
atomizing with warm saline and aka.
line solutions should be more or less
frequently done. The simplest cleans
ing solution is one made from one half
teaspoonful of salt and one half tea
spoonful of sodium bicarbonate to a
glass of warm water, or half these
amounts for half glass of water.
The same solution may be used as
eargle.
1t is not well to clanse the mucous
membrane of the nostrils too thor
odghly before the patient goes into the
outside air, especially if that air is
dust-laden. The proper tine to spray
is when the patient is to remain in
the house for short time
If the coryza tends to become sub
acute and prolonged, tonic treatment
is required; a small dose of qunine
and small dose of iron, with or
without arsenic and strychnia are ad-
yisable.
There is no immunity acquired by
surviving coryza (cold in the headD,
a pharyngitis or bronchitis. There
seems to be no doubt that the influen-
ga acillus leaves patient temporarily,
at least, more susceptible to other
more dangerous germs, as those of
pneumonia or tuberculosis.
Every cold, especially in young
child, should be considered serious.
The possibility and the frequent oc-
currence of complications such as mid
die ear inflammation, inflammation in
one of the accessory sinuses of the
nose, broncho pneumonia or lobar
pneumonia must always be subject
for consideration and prevention of
possible.
Cold and throat infections are also
likely to cause bronchial glands. Any
one or more Of these glands may be-
come infected with tuberculosis. Most
colds, if not all, are contagious, and
are transmitted by contact through
families or close associates, and are
especially spread by contact in
schools.
With damming up Of the passages
from congestion and secretion germs
may migrate or be forced into some
of the sinuses surrounding the nostrils,
and the frontal sinuses are those that
most frequently suffer. This is the
cause of the frontal headache from
the congestion which occurs with
most colds, and of an actual frontal
sinusitis when infection actually en-
ters these regions. If the same in
flammation occurs in the nasopharynx
the mouths of the Eustachian tubes
may become blocked, and middle ear
congestion from aspiration of the air
is caused. Also, the germs of infec-
tion may migrate up these tubes and
middle ear inflammation develop.