A Text book of Home Nursing; Modern Scientific Methods for the Care of the Sick
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It would be very unwise for the Home Nurse to prescribe any course of treatment. 80 A TEXTBOOK OF HOME NURSING A physician should be consulted, and his rules as to diet and treatment carried out faithfully. Pasteurized milk and gruels generally form the diet until the stools become normal. Cleanliness of body and clothing, especially after every stool is important. Heat to the abdomen is most helpful, such as hot fomentations, turpentine stupes, or mustard leaf. Change of air frequently brings ...relief from the disease. Whooping cough. We have been accustomed to con- sider -whooping cough as a child's disease; but adults in the fsimily frequently contract it. Infection comes through the sputum and cough. It is difficult at first to diagnose the disease, until the characteristic whoop ap- pears with the cough, followed by vomiting and sometimes nose bleed. Open air treatment, when possible day and night, good nourishing food, and separation from all other children are the principal points in nursing, with flannel under- wear, both day and night, because a chill might follow the heavy sweats after a paroxysm of coughing.
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