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HOME HEALTH GUIDE

TREATMENT OF COMMON COMPLAINTS

PNEUMONIA.

(Prepared and issued by the Health Department.)

If every person who is stricken with pneumonia could get proper medical treatment within the first 24 hours, the death rate from this disease in New Zealand would fall away to almost zero. At present it ranks sixth’ as the cause of death.

Pneumonia is tragically swift in its attack. A person might be walking blithely down the street early in the morning feeling fine. By midnight he might be dead. Swiftness in attack must be met by speed in defence. The chief warning signal is a sharp pain in the chest, usually accompanied by a headachy and listless feeling. Rush the patient to bed, and get a doctor without delay. The doctor has in his possession the means of stopping the attack. But He must know in time. Medical skill has now a new wonder-working drug on its side. It is known as sulphapyridine, and it is powerful enough to overwhelm the pneumonia germs. Patients treated with this drug on the first day, almost without exception, recover. This has been shown here and in other parts of the world. Your doctor knows all about it, but he must be summoned as soon as pneumonia is suspected. Otherwise he, with all his skill, and the drug with all its magic, will be of little use. Pneumonia frequently follows a cold or a severe sore throat, a complaint that is usually prevalent in winter and early spring. The bodily resistance becomes lowered, and the pneumococci are let loose in the lungs. Very soon after the chest pain is noticed the patient becomes very ill, and then the grim contest starts between medical science on the one hand, and a deadly little germ on the other, a germ that is causing the lung tissues to flood with pus. If the germ wins, the lungs eventually clog up, and the heart, valiantly pumping blood against this obstruction, finally has to give out.

Pneumonia is highly infectious, and is no respector of age. Most people carry the germ in their throats all the time, and if they are healthy it is harmless. Keep it harmless. Look after yourself when there are colds and chills about.

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19411018.2.4.6

Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1941, Page 2

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Tapeke kupu
376

HOME HEALTH GUIDE Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1941, Page 2

HOME HEALTH GUIDE Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1941, Page 2

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