MEDICAL.

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 2, 5 June 1930, Page 3

MEDICAL.

' Vmi may have s&iuc varicose, or thickened veins in the legs, and wonder ju-st what should be done about it. If there arc ju.=i :i. few, not heavy, and standing out Jike heavy cords, and there is no pain, heaviness, or sweLling lin the legs, it is just as well to forget about it.. However! if t-iie veins"are very thick and I'xleiul upwards into the thigh, and thore are heaviness, tiredness and swelling, it would be wise to have them removed either by thq knife or injection method. These niet-hod.s are botih sa<fe now. Tliere 'ii.ro. eases also of iiteers of these' veina, and sometimes old skin ■ail in cuts, like eczema.; that simply will nut.heal or clear up. Now, the reason if or- tins refusal to heal, or delay in- healing, is that the return flra-w of bipod -to.1 tlhe heart is boing' interfered with in soiiie T("ay.' Sometimes it is tight garters, perhaps standing, in one position too long, as in ihl' (:a^ii: of mofcprmen, poli(fcin;e;n a-nd others. " ~■".'.• • '; ' What really happens, in these legs? . 'PhiS circulation is so interfered with ■that used blood, blood with. poisons in / . it, on its way to-the heart moves so ! slowly that it remains toju long in this region, hence the "slowness" in building up, or healing, in the tissues, of this region. • .- j rapidity with which old ukers or skin atfmeinits will heal up if the patient can. •'got off his feet" is astonishing. Where the condition is not too bad, if tight garters are removed and the. patient will walk a little every day,'or raise his body on his toes a number of times diiily, -ie will help to pump the blood urpiward back to the heart.

Upwaxd massage of the legs has proved heipful also.

If you ai^e overweigftit it would be wise to got your weight down to normal or nearly noimial. The though*, then, about varicose veins in t-he leg is thisut the blood in the log contains less oxygen and more ca^boai dioxide, and shoui'd be moved

nlong a? above,

TOYCIJItE A COLD

We a.ll kn'OiW the symptoms —-ftreadache soro tliKraft, streaming nose and eyes, ■with a general feeling of illness, -writes

•a doctor.

'this-is the season when severe colds deveilop, and is therefore an appropriate time to discuss tihem.

The ideal wnv to treat a cold is:—

Gb'.to bed foT 24 hourly take hot drinks/have duly .liquid food, take five grains of quindne/a-t bed-tihie, take with the quinine ane igrain of calomel, in >the lnoTnyig take a saline aperient. Use an alkaJ'itie nasal douche, made up of. '■ bicarbonrtte of soda and borax. JJse it through a. spray. ' ' , These nioasures may well stop a cold developing furtior. > Tliey will certainly cut short an attack and lesson the risk.of chest -complications. r" ,

I suggest that these instTuctions anre cither eommittedtd menaoi-y or, botter still,-'preserved for future reference. If you have a severe cold in the head •and will.'not be bothered to deal with it

propctly, t-hen the.fault is yours