HOME HEALTH GUIDE

Hutt News, Volume 18, Issue 45, 30 May 1945, Page 6

HOME HEALTH GUIDE

— :■* THAT "TOUCHY" FEELING Most of us at some time or another have experienced that pouchy' feeling, when the slightest' little dis- ▲ cord in our daily routine puts us of|B balance. Generally, we get rid as the days goes qn. But theretimes when the condition, particularly in the lady of the household, becomes more or less chronic ans,,as far as the rest of the family ' cerned, a little hajs to '/ becomes a mass of nerves, is subject to bouts of crying and periods of deV pression lor which there seems to be no cause, bhe is liable to flytlm - handle; she is irritable, apprehensiljr and easily exhausted. / J This is when the rest of the family | should be patient and forb'earipg. is difficult at times to see the reason"* for 'Mother's upsets, but it's not fair to assume that worry and. fussing about things have brought on this condition —a condition*" that is so often JooKtly described as > "mostly; It's not always fair to. say that m-nbcr jL.ay be suffering'irom anaqiv.i'.'.. or ;•(: over-activity of the thyroid or glandular readjustment during the menopause, or change of life, and .that it's usual at" this-time * in b vuinan's life to have physical upsel;> und changes in normaL poui'.iitu - The point is that these and other' causes—there, can be anumbe? of. other causes—are specifically a. job" for investigation by a doctor. Therefore, when mother, becomesjumpy and hard to dear with, make allowances, and insist on her seeing a doctor. He should find out what's, wrong, and will be able -ta easier for her.

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