The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-04
SoME LIGTIT ON MEASLES

Reader asks if any permanent injury can result from measles and what relation there Is between measles and eyesight.
 The conjunctivitis or inflammation of lining of lids and covering of eyeballs that usually ac- companies the onset of measles sometmes de- velops into an inflammation of the transparent coat (cornea) of the eye, and this may leave permanent astigmatsm or other error or vlslon Measles is usually accompanied with more or less bronchitis In some cases the inflammation
 of the larger bronchial tubes extends downward and broncho pneumonia or as the old fashioned
 doctors called it, capillary bronchitis, and still more ancient practitioners, suffocative catarrh'
 develops.
 It is perhaps the not rare occurrence of this
 bronc ho- pm neumonia during or following measles
 that accounts for the common notion that I tne
 measles patient must be strongly guarded against taking cold.' The endeavors of ignorant people to protect the measles patient from this fancied
 danger leads serious neglect of ventilation and unquestionably predisposes the patient to such complications as pneumonia and such sequeis as Some people are ignorant yet intelligent. They are capable and often eager to learn what they
 don't know. and thanks to their intelligence they recognize that doctor is qualified to teach them about such things and Mrs Sumsey and Sairey Some people are ignorant and superstitious, and you can't do much for them with education, because they're incapable of learning anything
 except superstition and hoodoo which pervades their dwarfed minds to the exclusion of all else. child with measles developing measles may seem to have "just a cold" If ignorant peo-
 %th pra ase Suspicious redness of the eyeds and haps slight cought for day or so before the
 rash appears. The child's first symptoms, how ever develop on an average of weeks after in- lection. Therefore 1t is necessary that every possibly exposed child be isolated. at least kepet out of school for two weeks or better for sixteen days to make the child is not coming down with the disease. -
 During the feverish stage which begins with the appearance of the rash and lasts three or four days the patient should have all the cold
 water and fresh fruit beverages he wants The eyes may be protected with eyeshade or gog- gles if necessary but the sickroom should have | all possible sunlight at all times
 The temperature of the sckroom, the ventila- tion and the dress or of the patient |.should be the same as in any other short fever
 ish illness. It is distinctly injurious to the pa clothes or keep under too warm covers QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Vitamin B. Some time ago read about the use of wheat
 germ by people with arthrtis. Is 1t beneficial? If so what does 1t supply to their bodies? L. P. J.) Answer-vitamin B and vitamin E. I have no harm in eating it--try it and let us know if you find it beneficial Best way to get it is in the en-
 tire wheat you buy from farmer. mill or feed or | I would like to have your opinion about bron.
 Answer-ay opinion is that bronchiectasis Is a l low mean sort of illness, but you might have a
 IVY The Acid Delusion
 l am troubled with kind of catarrh which ] i understand Is caused by an acid condition oI the | system. I never had this trouble when lived 1 where there was much lime in the drinking Il water Is the lime water one buys at the drug
 store the same In effect as the lime in drinking II water? . Il Answer-I know of no acid condition of the system which account for any ailment or | complaint. So far as we know the lime in lime | water acts the same as the lime naturally pres | ent in foods such milk, beans, cabbage | oranges, etc, though you get more lime from 6 glass of milk than you do from a glass of limt
 water. and probably more than you do rom gallon of any drinking water. | Girl Covers Up Head
 My niece winds the covers around her head a night and sleeps all night like that, while hel body Is uncovered. She doesn't know she doe it. We are afraid she will sunOcatc. (K. S.)
 Answer-Never fear-she vii leone wide awake if her air is ever shut on. Try making thu bed so she can't pull the covers up above hel
 shoulders. Have the room as cold as possible st she will awake from discomfort when she pull the covers off.
 II Basketball
 | am an enthusiastic basketball player bust an greatly hampcrcd because whenever jump m! feet nearly give out. Couldn't wear some sup port. (M. J.l
 | Answer--Better not. Have your doctor trea your pronated or weak feet.
 tCopyrisht John F. Dille Col