The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-28
THE PREVENTION OF ADENOIDS

In our discussion OK Ille IdtlOlldl
Conception of Adenoids the other day
we nearly put one over on the CEN
sor. Remember? We advised giving
plenty of pure RAW milk to infants
and children for the prevention OF
adenoids and one thing and another,
and we were trying to sell little
CERTIFIED milk when the censor
started out of his doze and rang the
bell.
Today let's get started here at the
beginning. It has been practically
proved, particularly in England, that
infants and school children who re-
ceive RAW milk have better health
and better teeth and better develop
ment of jaws and nasal passages and
hence less trouble from adenoids and
enlarged tonsils, than do infants and
children who receive only pasteur-
lied or otherwise procesSed or heated
or cooked or sterilized milk.
CERTIFIED milk is the only raw
milk that is universally pure and safe
for infant. child or invalid. Ordinary
market milk may be free from pollu-
ton, but it is so frequently infected
with the germs of tuberculosis, septic
sore throat, undulant fever, ETC., that
some kind of disinfection is neces-
Sary for safety. and most commun-
tiles adopt ordinances providing that
all nondescript milk offered for sale
shall be par-boiled, boiled or pasteur-
lied to kill the disease germs that are
likely to be in it. Pasteurizing means
simply heating milk up to las de-
grees F., holding it at that tempera-
ture for 20 minutes, then allowing 1t
to cool again. That is enough heat
to kill off tubercle bacilli, diphtheria
bacilli, typhoid bacilli, streptococci,
etc. In many small villages or coun-
try towns it is possible to buy, per-
hapS from neighbor who keeps a
COW, if you can't keep one or a goat
yourself, perfectly clean, pure, safe,
raw fresh milk, and where this is pos
Sible it is boon to the children in any
family.
l believe the prevention Of adenoids
and enlarged tonsils is largely if not
entirely a question of nutrition, and
that the same nutritive requirements
as those laid down for the develop
ment and conservation of the teeth
insure also the prevention of over
growth or hypertrophy of adenoid It's
sue. Of you don't know how to con-
serve the teeth, send stamped en-
velope bearing your address and ask
how
The influence of the vitamin, or
whatever it is in fresh RAW milk
that favorS the normal development
of teeth and jaws, is promoted by the
influence of plenty of sunlight on the
naked skin. At all times, therefore
nakedness or nudism must be regard
ed as healthful for infants and chill
dren. The fashion of bare knees or
bare legs or bare feet is commend
able. The scantiness of attire which
so greatly shocks us older fogies. is
likewise commendable from the view
point of health. Even in mid winter
it is healthful to go without clothing
or without this or that superfluous
garment, If one finds it comfortable
to do so. The midwinter sunshine or
skyshine is comparatively poor in
ultraviolet, but still it is beneficial
if it can get to the skin.
In my opinion-just one of my no
tons "a suitable iodin ration tends
to prevent adenoid hypertrophy. The
infant should get his iodin ration in
his food or from his mothers breast
The school child or school child
should get it from food, in regions
where soil and water. and hence food
arc poor in iodin. from the iodizad
salt that should be used exclusively
in households in such regions. The
older child may require a weekly dose
of drop of tincture of iodin in a
glass of water, during most of the
school year.