FIRST-AID AT THE SEASIDE.

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 29, 11 December 1930, Page 8

FIRST-AID AT THE SEASIDE.

i -—— --. . v . ! A very little thing can completely spoil a seaside holiday, but if you study and tuck away in your memory ■the following simple pfeventatives and eu-res, your holiday should be troublefree. The wax deposit whiol guards our ear-drums varies considerably in different individuals. That is wliy, in bathing, water gets into, some people's ears while others are immune. The result, if it enters, may be a brazing which persists for days, or something more serious. But the preventive is very simple; always plug the ears with cot-ton-wool, with the outside part touched with, a little olive oil, when you bathe. -

Most of us know how easy it is to get a cut on a beach from a fragment of shell or glass. To go into the sea with even a tiny cut insufficiently protected is to invf^te. painful festering—rthe salt is responsible—or even bloodpoisoning. Such cuts should be dabbed at once with idbdine (a small phial can be carried quite easily in a handbag or waistcoat pocket) and sea-water kept away from it. Oiled silk tied over court-plaster would effect that.

Many holiday makers with delicate skins suffer agony from, getting burnt hy the sun, with resultant inflainitnation blistering, and unsightly peeling. The best prevention is to keep out of the ■direct rays of the sun for the firs^ two days of one's holiday—to give the sTein a chance of acclimatising-itself. Then, if all exposed parts are rubbed each morning with, a cotton-wool pad moistened with olive oil, the skin will brown and not burn. .