Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 6 February 1963 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY*, 1963

Common Cold Most Familiar Ailment

-.Editors Note: Few things . are easier to oame by or harder 4o got rid of than the common cold. Modern medicine, which to making advances in finding what causes a cold* is having tougher going in finding what to do about it The following dispatch, the last in a three-part series on the common cold, reports the latest information on what can—and can not be done about a eold. By BARNEY SEIBERT United Press International

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CHICAGO (UPI) - There’s an old saying among physicians: “Treat a cold and you'll be over it in seven days. Leave it alone and it will last a week." Despite the 8350 million a year spent by Americans on nostrums and remedies to cure the commpn cold, that old rule still applies, the American Medical Association (AMA) says. In an age of "wonder drugs” man is no more able to cure the common cold than were the ancient Chinese, who inhaled vapors

from a broomstraw plant; the Indian medicine man who shook rattles and chanted incantations; or the Medieval physistan, who drained off a pint or « of the victim’s blood. Patent cold remedies sometimes ease cold symptoms. They generally consist of pain killers, fever reducers, gntihistamines, decongestants, vitamins, cough medicines, rubs, gargles, antibiotics. Comments On Remedies In the January, 1961, issue of its magazine, “Today’s Health," the AMA made these commenst about ingredients in cold remedies: —Pain killers: Makes you feel better but does nothing for the cold. May cause nausea, dizziness or more dangerous side effects. —Fever reducers: Fever hardly ever accompanies a cold; may

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bring on ills evm Worse than the cold—Antihistamines: Helpful for allergies but useless for colds; can impair judgment, cause dizziness, drowsiness, headache. —Decongestants: May temporarily stimulate freer breathing but boomerang congestion may occur, starting a cycle of pill-confiestion-pill; may cause sinus infection; nose drop form can allow oil to slip into lungs, causing pneumonia. —Vitamins: Supplementary vitamins—in or out of cold remedies—can neither keep you from getting a cold or help you get rid of one. —Antibiotics: Worthless against virus-caused disease; may cause allergy; may create bacterial immunity, making them worthless against germ-caused disease.

—Cough medicines: You can get the same effect by sucking a lemon drop; other ingredients may cause stomach irritation, lung infection. —Gargles: Worthless against a cold because the infection is deep inside the body. —Rubs: "Application of ointment to the chest is foolishness.” Misuse of cold remedies can mask serious illness, the AMA said. Measles, polio, influenza, parrot fever, Q-fever and strepto'coccal infections begin with cold symptoms. What to Do What to do if you are among the 85 per cent of the population which gets colds each year? The AMA advises: Take a hot bath, drink a glass of hot milk or lemonade, go to bed, use steam as a vaporizer, avoid spreading

your cold to others. A cold remedy popular in Elizabethan England was sipping wine while soaking the feet in hot water. It may have had some merit. Dr. Noah D. Fabricant, writing in ithe March, 1958, Journal of Otolaryngology, reported that alcohol reestablishes circulation in nasal membranes, provides comfort, induces drowsiness and promotes a desire for rest “Although...alcohol is obviously not a cure...its beneficial rolecan neither be minimized nor dismissed,” he said. In any case, many a physician’s own cold remedy is an aspirin tablet, a shot of whisky, and bed.

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and they can then be easily rm sprinkled later. Garbage Can Care Heat the bottom at a new or cleaned metal garbage can with a hot iron and drop in a piece of paraffin or candle. The wax will melt and coat the bottom of the container so it will not rust out and can be easily eleaned. Onton OMng Onions are one of ttte most "dangerous" of vegetables to slice thin, because they have away of slipping out of the knife’s way and leaving your fingers there to take the rap. Avoid this by setting the onion on a flat metal grater while you slice it. The grater grips the onion and prevents its slipping out from under at the crucial moment