NURSERY COLDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19632, 10 May 1927, Page 5

NURSERY COLDS.

It is a very difficult matter to avoid nursery colds and chilis daring the wmlcr months and particularly just now,, .-when the weather »s so changeable, and a>s<s f moat people will agrt», a babv'A mm is mo'it ill-adapted by nature to cops wi«fi a nosy snuflSy cxhi. While {lk.ate stsll in the i:at :r ; g st.igo it is an <'iS-y tirailei to keep ih<-iu v;&rm, iAti (mi r. the crawhng tlagr- n r&ic''it-A iltt* docs pj«.-'.;it w/fnsj M'fy sv.-ni (iifftonlticfe. k cii.jt'*!. •,*?«.*#f Jiiiiv/Hgh it ;-i j'<,r a s>umrm-r c*tv««ng for nmMtsf/jf is not oauif tiawn eoongii for peflfdo from on« to tltsw vt ata' old to play on. A warni, thick . rug stfwtssld b« placed near the fheguarri, and on it a creaaore t-ox of t.ojr- 'H-e doots sho;/id iifit redly well, or, if tllwy dh not, Bs«n «som« v.*rt of drauplt!. must hn provided. Kvc-ry u:--,i,hzr or mnm sbwdd .snake a po>*K oi wttng on the fam her•elf to «» that tbera ;ia no dmc^Jbt. Mtojr litlsn chti irsio «r« rt-jr'yr* So chilblains, and beyond keepmg Vbesr hftods and: feet as warm fi.» posssifle, little .«sn tie drvn« e*t«sr«aSiy, but a eon«« of cod llwer oil « soon as tl»« »«atl;er gr's milv mid ,w4IS often woe# w«oder*. The eb.ila's diet, too, should thoogbt out WJtb regard masely to its beast-predawn 5 qanlities. For chtfdren a littia fc'der !«**> pram riding and mora bmk wafkiffg »ifl tend to imsrova lb® esrculatioß, a.cd v, pr«- , «»t asd al«» a»ka ib# isbtl- • dr<n Ims liabl* to ra:«fe cold With regard to isfectfosa colds, hw mmodim ar« mors m pr«v«iting a child from eatcbinjr a «old from aa<rtb*r fb»i»- etnaaasoa.. Moat ebsldraa <p»ta like this whan give® ,*a wall «wc«tened hot milk. M**y a»othar< ta«> an staftn to • praraat a cold *praadiag rtgat tfercusgb the family, if proper precaution-* ar« taien tkm* »s no s,#ed to *gy,. "Of . they'll all gut it " So pa/ticttlarly ea».faj that ibar* t* r« a*trtnf of feandfeer cbsef#, and let evary rhfld k*v« a fa* drops of one of tba anti'iafeetjoa osl* that are to bo bad anywhere m- hm baorfkareMaf JSaap tjba eh'Jdren mi cf doora a« Ktaebi as poaaibJo sad.,. If the .te a Ibaavy fsvariab eoa. fceap tb« S#f*ei*d child I* bad' ®»tH the arorat of *t is oaarff tit* sefwrtaaat# ?»Kv of t!«* lioatsa doaa gat it In bii tiny apology for a «w, tin bridge *t that a«aa ba. gf»t!f ris.hpd 4 !•«> nd with W!« sis of o :! Th» «aw»* «'»* tire way W rtsbh*d on bj? If ♦>,«'-« :« r4 r- ! 4 bmjog it aft a, o?ir P«r» mw pbomtaJ of! fa spt 'to bt4a® a ehi'-f* delkatft afein out in a raah, but the addl- ! tioa of (olrve oil away wfth this rbfe.