The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-12-18

will, in the course Of time, catch
his share Of infectious diseases,
one should try to guard them from
possible sources of infection until
they are better able to cope with
them. Incidentally, he holds out
for this concerning all babies, not
just his own.
Eve do not take them with US
to stores, theatres, parties. or any
crowds. Even so we meet people
in the house or in the park and
there is the rub. The majority Of
complete strangers will not only
come very close and talk to the
babies, they will insist on tickling
their chins and feet and holding
their hands.
Most people will give in il one
refuses to let them hold a baby
lust for a moment but they will
be deeply offended if one asks
them please not to touch the chill
dren. | hate to be rude, but | also
hate to unnecessarily expose my
children to everything from colds
TO measles.
do you think, DR.. Clendening,
that we are unjustifed in our wish
TO keep strange hands from our
young babies. let's say up to the
time when they can walk alone 7"
Parents Right
This is a very human problem
which no one can solve by issuing
ukases, or giving advice, or pass
ing laws. OF course, the parents
are right in this instance; the
babies should be protected from
unnecessary Contamination and in
lection. The fact that they are
twins makes it even harder than in
the case Of single baby. Human
beings just don't seem to be able
to keep their hands Of twins.
1t probably won't do any good.
but think it is worth saying any
way, "Will nice old gentlemen in
parks who probably have ten
billion more kinds of germs than
a little baby ever came anywhere
near having please be kind enough
not to tickle babies under the
chin ?"
The thing goes even further
than this, which is the thought
lessness that people in general
have about sickness. AS soon as
the wife Of your next door neigh
Dor is i'll, half the people in the
neighborhood can hardly resist
sending her flowers and going over
and sitting all afternoon and
breathing in her face. 1t is just
possible that she went to the hos
pital in order to get away from
that.
Most Of this tickling babies un-
der the chin in parks and going to
see your sick friends is form OF
exhibitionism anyway.
This article probably won't do
any good, but | feel like writing it.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
D. NJ. Eff a patient had
diabetes last fall and took insulin
for eleven days and cleared Of
sugar, and has not taken it since,
and now has an abscess on the
foot which is healing slowly, would
it be all right to eat cherries,
pears, parsnips, plums and rails
ins?"
Answer: Your patient has the
worst complication Of diabetes
complete ignorance of the disease.
If the patient had diabetes last
fall, he or she still has it; the
slowly healing abscess On the foot
shows that. Insulin will not cure
a case of diabetes in eleven days.
OF course, it clears the sugar, but
that doesn't mean the diabetes is
gone. Insulin must be kept up in
definitely. The articles Of diet
which you mention are about the
worst articles for a diabetic TO eat.
alleged news that does circulate
isn't real news, but rumor and
quite unyerifable. 1t gets Itself
printed and onto the radio, never
theless. Readers and listeners are
at liberty TO believe it or not, as
suits 'em.
There's no panic about the situa-
ton, but it's commotion that
verges on incredibility, and it's
darned wearing
Thank heaven I'm not an Axis
allen in the midst Of 1t.