HOME HEALTH GUIDE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1942, Page 5

HOME HEALTH GUIDE

PRECAUTIONS AFTER FORTY.

WARNINGS SHOULD BE HEEDED

(By the Health Department.) Once you have reached the age of 40, the bodily machine, just like any other machine after years of use, starts to slow down a bit, and defects can be expected. You can notice it yourself—you can notice certain shortcomings that were not apparent be-, fore; for instance, shortness of breath, a tendency to get tired more quickly, perhaps a slight suggestion oi pain in the chest. They are warnings to take it easy. They are .signs that the heart, the most amazing of all body organs, is starting to register a protest after years of use and abuse. Take notice of therm Intelligent care will arrest the disease that threatens the heart if treatment is taken in time— immediately the danger signals show. Your doctoi will tell you how. , , Angina pectoris is the type of pam most often heard about in connection with heart disease. It is almost always associated with bodily effort, and there is a tendency for the pain to radiate from the chest to the left shoulder and down the arm to the fingers. Interference with the blood SU PPL’ ® the heart muscle is frequently the PRLISG i Then there is shortness of breath during, or after, ordinary exertion. When due to heart disease it is usually produced by congestion of the blood vessels in the lungs. This happens most commonly . because of the failure of the left side of the heart io pass blood on from the lungs as ias> as it is delivered into the lungs by the These symptoms may not necessai’’ ily indicate incipient heart disease, though they probably do. Play safe. Let your doctor decide their importance without delay.