The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-15

late summer and fall type Of hay
fever are preparing to resist their
invisible but none the less malig-
nant invader.
I want to start out the articles
this year with some suggestions
that have come in from readers.
Here's one from Winchester, Viz
ginis.
81 am In poor health and can
not stand the ordeal Of shots for
my hayfever. Besides I cannot
afford TO leave town or have an
air-conditioned room. Is it pos
sible to get relief from wearing
nose protection as evidenced in
some magazines"
This contains an essential fall
lacy, because hayfever patients
will tell you that their eyes are
more trouble than their nose, and
inasmuch as there is connection
between the eyes and the nose, and
the secretion Of the eyes runs
down through a duct into the nose,
the pollens which alight in the eyes
are dissolved in the tears which
on account Of their salt content,
make an ideal solution for pollen
and flow down into the nose, caus-
ing trouble there no matter
whether the nostrils are stopped
up or not.
Another suggestion comes from
W. W. D. Of Kansas City: with
the approach of the hayfever sea-
son, may l tell you of my expert
ence with it? Ny father and
mother moved from Western Penn
sylvania to Kansas TO alleviate his
asthma and her hayfever, both
severe. A brother and sister with
severe cases of hayfever, and my
own case seems bad enough.
with the advent Of each season
buy a bath spray which hooks on
the water spout of the bath, and
costs fifty to seventy-five cents.
take one of these spray baths on
arising the year round, but at this
season l let the spray play partic-
ularly, on my throat and upper
chest. In the evening before din
ner, l let this cold spray play on
my throat and chest, and again
before going to bed, and ! hardly
know it is the hayfever season.
That is, until some evening, l miss
the pre-dinner shower or the bed
time shower, and then l suffer as
much as anyone with burning eyes
and running nose. That usually
happens but once or twice in a
season. One feels so we'll he thinks
he can skip it without being penal
lied, but the pollen gets him.
"My remedy is so simple that
sufferers won't believe me-but I
would be interested to have you
recommend this to wide number
and check the results"
l received this letter last year
too late to help sufferers in that
hayfever season. / have had no
personal experience with the
method, and cannot therefore,
give it my recommendations but
since it is perfectly harmless, I am
glad to give it publicity and will
be glad to hear from my readers
what results they have obtained
from it.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
E. H. G.:-"Has a seven-year-
old child a chance to outgrow a
rheumatic heart caused by acute
rheumatic fever?"
Answer: Acute rheumatic fever
affects the heart in different ways.
II the heart muscle or pericardium
alone is affected, the child will
probably overcome it in time. II
the valves are affected, the condi-
ton is likely to be permanent, but
may not progress for many years.
thing we owe 10 Cal. He sent q
navy mission to Rio to build a feet
and educate its personnel, and it
did a first-rate Job. Brazil had a
lreadnaught ahead Of any other
country except Britain and the
United States.
One thing we need 10 do Is. to
learn Spanish-AND Portuguese.
When Yankees acquired Span
ish he thinks he's got the whole
thing. He hasn't The Brazilians
say they can't understand ii. Per-
sonally l don't think there's much
difference, but the Spanish and
Portuguese do. Each contend that
the others a mere dialect, and it's
diplomatic to know 'em both.