INFLUENZA EPMICIDE

Wanganui Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15657, 8 November 1918, Page 8

INFLUENZA EPMICIDE

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PRECAUTIONS AGAINST ATTACK,

First.—Gargling the throat night and morning with any weak disinfectant solution, such as potassium permanganate, strength, 1 in 1000. Be in the open air as much as sible and avpid overcrowded and heated atmosphere. Attention to general personal hygiene, so that if attacked by the disease the patient has greater powers of resistance.

The initial symptoms, such as languor, lassitude, feverishness, pain in the back and limbs, are common knowledge, and constitute a warning that the person attacked at once lie up. Neglect in the early stages, such as remaining at work, often leads to serious complications. In all cases where there is any temperature medical attention should be sought. Great prostration during the attack and during convalescence is characteristic of 'the disease, and a too early return to work is unwise and may cause a relapse.

Sometimes the onset of the disease is startling in its rapidity, so that the preliminary symptoms mentioned above are absent.