Home Doctoring
Just the "common cold" can be dangerous as well as infuriating to yourself and your family. It can do more than interrupt your work and your play. It can wear you down to the point when you are ready and likely to take any serious contagion that’s going. If we realise that it is largely a matter of "resistance," we are half-way to winning the battle. These are the things that "lower the resistance": bad ventilation, or stuffy, overheated air; draughts; and overheated body, either through exercise or too much clothing or bed-covering; adenoids, and unhealthy tonsils, over-eating; excess of starchy and sugar foods. The first thing to do is to learn to blow the nose in the right manner — one nostril at a time, and with the head bent on that side, and gently — and to keep the nasal passages clear. Correct your diet, adjust your clothing, be as much in the open air as you can manage, and exercise yourself reasonably. You can assist the health and happiness of your child, too, enormously if you help him to follow these simple rules, I have a friend who has apparently become immune to colds. He adds the simple precaution of a night and morning gargle,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 16, 13 October 1939, Page 15
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208Home Doctoring New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 16, 13 October 1939, Page 15
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