HOME HEALTH GUIDE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 90, 17 July 1945, Page 6

HOME HEALTH GUIDE

WEAK-CHESTED CHILDREN

(Uy the Department of Health)

Some mothers Avitli Aveak-chested children arc worried year alter year because the children start sneezing and coughing a& soon as ttie Aveather turns colder. It's really Avorrisome particularly Avhen other children are able to go right through winter without catching a single cold. There may lie scA'eral reasons for this Aveakness. There may be disf eased tonsils and adenoids or an infected nasal sinus- or chronic bronchiti^—but the mother most concerned is the one 1 who has already been to her doctor and had her child checked OA'er for physical and has been told there's nothing Avrong. Often she is told: He'll grow out of it. What mother wants to know is how to help her child do this. You can't ahvays- prevent your child joining in the Avay of cold germs, but you can help him to build up his strength so that the cold doesn't get such a hold of him. The ability to resist colds is built on a foundation of adequate sleep fresh air in rooms day and. night, and proper food. The sleep helps the food building blocks to settle strongly into and the fresh air from open Avindows keeps the. germs diluted so that the child (doesn't get too big a barrage of germs at once. The .particular building blocks that are wanted from the food are Vitamins A and D —for sturdy frames and bodies and resistance to colds. S<£ if you've a weak-chcstcd child see that lie gets the full amount of sleep in an open-AvindoAved bedroom and see that ,£e is. taking from Easter-time onwards a daily dose of cod liA r er.oil or some substitute.. With fruit and vegetables this combination builds up the child's general health.