The Nome daily nugget., 1937-08-16

attacks the muscu- lar tubes of the air passages and causes these muscles to contract, thereby diminishing the volume of air that Is breathed in. Hay fever attacks the membrane of the nose. Eczema may break out in the skin almost any where.
 It has been found that, when both parents have suffered from hay fever or asthma, 5S per cent of the children have these ailments. When only one parent suffers from hay fever and asthma, usually just half of the chil- dren have the same ailment. But hay fever and asthma also develop in some children where there is no family his tory of this disease. When both par ents are asthmatics or hay fever suf- ferers, children develop the same dis ease earlier in life than when only one parent is involved or when there is no history of these particular ail ments in the mother or father.
 Hay fever parents usually beget hay fever children, and asthmatic parents beget asthmatic children.
 Hay fever is usually associated with August, the month in which rag weed pollens are most numerous in the air. But the Representative condition of the nose can be brought about by other substances than plant pollens, animal hair, dandruff, or such sub stances can cause 1t, as can face pow ders, perfumes and certain foods, such as strawberries, almonds, fish, etc. Or it can be brought about by bacterial infections. In this instance 1t is not the bacteria that cause the disease. as in the case of a boil, but 1t is the component parts of the bacteria that are absorbed by the blood stream and come in contact with the nose in this way.
 The cause of asthma can be the same as that of hay fever. Inhaling certain substances, ingesting certain substances as food or remote foci of bacterial growths, can cause an in- creased sensitlveness of the muscuId ture of the tubes leading air to the lungs. This increased sensltiveness causes spasms of these muscles. It Is during the period of spasm or cramps that the asthmatic is most uncomfort. able. Another manifestation of hyper. sensitiveness to foods is the uticara or hives that break out on the skin after the eating of certain foods.
 In studies which have been carried on at the Illinois Research hospital in connection with the University of Illinois, 1t seems that an individual be- longing to the asthma, hay fever, ecze- ma or hives group Is put together in a different way from the rest of us. These Representative people are so con. stituted and constructed that they re- act in an abnormal manner to wha. would be normal to most of US.
 The individuals who suffer from migraine headache, the sick headache that comes on with regular periodicity really belong to the same general group as the Representative persons do. This does not mean that the migraiDe Is brought on like an attack of asthma or hay fever. But studies of the head ache groups that we have made in our research laboratory leave us impressed with the fact that preceding an attack of sick headache, certain definite in ternal changes take place. These in- clude changes in constituents of the blood, and there seems to be differ ence in the internal metabolism of these migraine sufferers. The changes seem to be periodic, occurring some times at weekly intervals. and again at fortnightly, monthly or even longer intervals. Consequently these sick headaches, although not brought on by inhaling plant or animal substances or by eating certain foods, seem to de- pend on a changing or unstable inter- nal regulating system that makes the migraine patient closely akin to asth- matic and hay fever sufferers.
 Our conclusion then is that persons suffering from asthma, hay fever, eczema, hives and migraine. have a very unstable involuntary nervous system.
 The involuntary controlling machln- cry of their body functions is so rcgu. lated that 1t can be upset or thrown out of tune as a result of contact with irritating substances that to the rest of us produce no deviation from the normal
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