DIARRHOEA OR ECZEMA.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 2 September 1908, Page 2

DIARRHOEA OR ECZEMA.

How are we to apply the above advice to the treatment of such utterly different conditions as, for example, diarrhoea and eczema?

The essential background of treatment is the same in both oases, viz., to pay special attention to'evovytHns tint conduces to health. Though other measure? should be taken as well, to hasten the cure, general hygiene alone would bring about restoration to health in most cases, while at the snme time building up ihe phys'que and constitu-

ticn of the child and rendering it proof against any other disease. When a baby has diarrhoea the mother's atI tention become centred on regulating the bowels by means of food and drugs; it does not occur to her that fresh air would havo any effect. Yet a greatAmerican authority on babies says, when dealing with the treatment "of Infantile Diarrhoea:— The general hygiene of the child should be regulated. Light and air should be assured. Often a change from the city to the country will marvellously help these cases. In New York, for example, it is found that a single day in one of the floating hospitals of St. John's Guild, which take sick children from the tenement districts down to the Bay, will have a most decided effect in restoring these patients.