CHILBLAINS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2305, 21 July 1921, Page 4

CHILBLAINS.

Children, like grown-up people, do not get chilblains if they arc well fed, warmly and comfortably clothed, take plenty of regular outdoor exercise, live in fairly warm rooms, and are in vigorous health. Chilblains are not a necessary consequence of winter weather, as some people seem to imagine. Lots of ns go through life without ever making theNiequaintance of one single chilblain. We are generally those who like fat and can digest it. A slow circulation always causes this tendency to these winter torments, and this slowness generally goes with health a little bit under “par.” For this reason the "martyr to ehilbla-

ins" should endeavour to feed up. All Children and young people who have chilblains should, if they can digest it, have eodliver oil regularly three times a day, directly after meals, all through the winter. An excellent ointment that gives great relief to chilblains is this: Oil of swallows, eucalytus, white wax, vaseline. As much of each as would have cost one penny before the war. For broken chilblains the best treatment is a dressing of equal parts of balsam of Peru and simple ointment spread on a piece of lint and bandaged on. Tight boots and gloves “make for chilblains. ’■ A hot jar in your bed at night does not cause them. It helps to prevent them. Anything that improves the circulation helps to prevent them; this is why brisk exercise is so valuable.