The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-22
CHASING AROUND

CHASING AROUND
 My wife is pregnant for the first time at the age of forty (writes 8 Sakatchewan reader>. I engaged one of the leading local physicians. but she didn't seem satisfied, as she thought she should be bigger py now and she imagined the baby didn't move enough. So l took her to another doctor for double check. He examined her ana salo everything was normal so far as ner size and movement of the baby were concerned but that she had high blood pressure and a trace of albumen in urine. He said he was surprised the other doctor hadn't nut her on a diet. He told her she should eat no meat, no eggs.
 On the next visit to the first doc tor I asked him if meat causes high blood pressure, and he answer ed that this was a common put CT, roneous belief. He again assured us that everything is normal. My wife is now in the seventh month. what would you suggest, Dr. Brady 'H. M. CJ The first doctor was right aoou it. Of course meat does not cause high blood pressure.
 He was right, too, in NOT put ting your wife on a diet, at leaSt in not advising her to eat'no meat no eggs. The quaint old character who gave your wife that aoVlce may be a huge success in putting himself over on the community out I'd hate to have any member o' my family under his care. There is no good reason why ons with high blood pressure and alou- men and casts in the urine or even well developed chronic nephrltis (chronic Bright's disease) should not eat a reasonable amount or meat, eggs, fowl, cheese, milk, fish, In fact the notion that meat, par ticularly "red" or dark meat Qean beef) is in some way unsuitable TOT persons with high blood pressure, chronic rheumatiz, chronic Brights disease etc, seems to be one or those quaint old medical traditions for which there is no substantial foundation.
 Although the correspondent does not mention 1t, the fact that ms wife is forty probably worries her too. That's a favorite theme for the popular song, popular with the old woman of the neighborhood anyway The Expectancy Blues" It would do the poor girl no harm, may even give her bit of confl- dence and good cheer, to read the chapter Her First at Forty in the booklet Preparing for Maternity and Ter husband too. After all, this baby business is a fifty-flfty part nership from the moment the con- tracting partners say T do' until the sleeping partner, the little stranger they have dreamed about, says Well, SO long. Nom and Dad its been nice knowing you'
 Expectant fathers who feel at all different about this business may get of to good start by sending ten cents and stamped self address ed enveloped for Preparing for Maternity"
 QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 CT0SS the Drluge when
 am 37 and believe I'm starting to go through the menopause, be- cause I am accumulating excess weight and =. Miss E. S.
 Answer-Come now, 1t is TO jok- ing matter Why not occupy your self writing a kind of journal dur ing your first ten or fifteen years journey - entitled Through the Menopuase Without a Flash" Send a stamped envelope bearing your address, for pamphlet How to Lose Weight" If you are serious about the menopause, inclose ten cents for pamphlet about that.
 Post Cards
 I should be glad to have you send me the pamphlet on hemorrhoids mentioned in your article.
 (G. c. S.)
 Answer-Yahbut who pays the freight? The pamphlet is available on written request Ca clipping will not do) if you provide stamped self addressed envelope. Ask for Tt Is Stupid to Suffer from Piles" stupid.
 Will coffee taken at the same meal with vitamin tablets neutralize or mullify the good effects of the vitamins? Mrs. D. L)
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