AFTER INFLUENZA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 206, 3 September 1935, Page 2

AFTER INFLUENZA

Considering that influenza is so com mon, ami that its most severe period lasts such a little time on the whole, its after effects are particularly devastaling. One may have been ill with influenza only a week, yet so feeble does one feel afterwards that one might easily imagine one had been in bed for weeks. Influenza is sudden in its attack. Hetidache, a fit of shivering, pain in . the limbs a quick rise of temperature, and influenza has us in its power. A hot bath, a rapid retirement to a warm bed, and hot fruit drinks are essential at once, am! the warmth ami the hot drinks should be maintained until the temperature, falls to normal. All through the p ri<»<i I when one minute one feels icy cold and 1 the next burning hot, when ihe leys' won’t keep still and the whole boUx i aches, when one is troubled by a cough and running from the nose, bed in a warm, ventilated ropin is the onh ! pla.-e. ,\o solid food should be taken 1 until tin* feverish condition has passed. ’ When one is allowed up again, and one . tries to walk downstairs with leg' l that feel at first as if they made of t lotton wool, and then after after a day or so ns if they might be matrii sticks, , is is then that great care is neeessarv i to avoid catching further chid'. Don’t attempt to do too much. However i much work there is for you to do, let 1 it. >\ait a fc\x <l;i\s more. Axoidj draughts, wrap up vxell, but have the 1 window open, for frosh air and sun shine Mill help you on to recoverv j When the doctor allows you out, choose . the sunny side of the road, and beware I of keen winds. Eat light, uouri/hini; • food, sinh as jellies, junket,, custard, eggs, milk, and beef tea. \ To help on the work of eonvaleseeiiee a tonic food that is quickly assimilated is generally r< commended.