HOME HEALTH GUIDE
RATIONING OF DRUGS. NEED FOR ECONOMY STRESSED. (By the Department of Health.) The need for economy in the use of drugs, dressings and medical supplies has not been greatly emphasised, but it is imperative that stocks should be conserved. The war has interfered with our normal supply of drugs. Many of them are now rationed, and may not be bought except on medical prescription —for, instances, quinine, caffeine, menthol, camphor. These were drugs you could purchase when you pleased, and they are commonly used in many proprietary . medicines and tablets. Formalin and perman-, ganate are in limited supply. This will affect the manufacture of cosmetics, which should be used sparingly from now on. ' Cotton wool, lint, bandages and rubber medical supplies are all getting short. Bandages and lint should be used economically and, where possible, bandages should be washed and used over again. Manv -people have been in the habit of purchasing vitamin preparations. AH of these have to be imported. Selfprescribing of vitamins should cease. They can, and should, be obtained from ordinary foodstuffs and where the need is greatest, then the doctors can prescribe the concentrated preparations. For the normal person, a wellbalanced, healthy diet will do all that is required. The only vitamin likely to be short in a properlv-planned New Zealand diet is Vitamin D, which is supplied most conveniently by cod-liver oil or some substitute concentrate. In the absence of supplies from overseas it will be necessary to get all the sunshine you can, because the action of the sun on the skin will manufacture your requirements of this important vitamin. 1
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 September 1942, Page 6
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270HOME HEALTH GUIDE Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 September 1942, Page 6
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