Suggestions to mothers on the management of their children / by a mother. Rev. throughout by a physician.

Date:
1889
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Credit: Suggestions to mothers on the management of their children / by a mother. Rev. throughout by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2. The Public Baths in Park Street and North Hoad afford the means of securing baths at a very small cost; and personal cleanliness forms, in addition to domestic cleanliness, one of the best preventives of diarrhoea. [See pp. 321, 322, 403, 419.] (C) Rules as to Food.—1. Wholesome fruit does not cause diarrhoea, but tainted fruit may cause it. Avoid any fruit which is being sold much below the ordinary prices. 2. Milk should always be boiled before being drunk, especially during the summer months. Attention to this rule would go far to put an end to the present serious loss of life from diarrhoea. 3. Infants under eight months old should have no food except milk, unless a doctor’s opinion to the contrary is obtained. It is a mistake to suppose that this is ‘not sufficiently satisfying.’ The healthiest infants are those fed only from the breast, and they very rarely suffer from diarrhoea. If cow’s milk must be employed, then it should be diluted with one- third of water, to which a little lime-water has been added ; or with barley-water if the milk seems to disagree with the infant. 4. Never use £ pap ’ (bread sops) for infants, and never give any of the patent foods for infants which contain starchy matter (as most of them do). 5. Always prepare the infant’s food fresh each time, with freshly boiled milk. Milk and water, and still more £ pap ’ or artificial foods, if left for two or three hours, £ go bad,’ and are then highly dangerous to an infant. 6. The bottle from which the infant is fed should be thoroughly scalded daily, and the tube thoroughly cleansed. If the bottle smells sour be sure there is something wrong and the child will suffer. It is a good plan to soak the bottle once a day in water to which a little Condy’s fluid has been added, and then rinse it out afterwards with clean water. The Condy’s fluid will be supplied free at the Sanitary Office, Town Hall.
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