Diseases of children, for nurses, including infant feeding, therapeutic measures employed in childhood, treatment for emergencies, prophylaxis, hygiene, and nursing . ns. Nervous symptoms- are relieved with ice-capsand cool sponges. Cardiac weakness should be combatedby heart stimulants. Isolation and Disinfection in Contagious Cases.—Pro-phylaxis should be complete, as the disease is highlycontagious and is prone to lea^e many serious complica-tions. The room selected should be at the top of thehouse if practicable, and it should have plenty of ventila-tion and be bright and sunshiny. All uph
Diseases of children, for nurses, including infant feeding, therapeutic measures employed in childhood, treatment for emergencies, prophylaxis, hygiene, and nursing . ns. Nervous symptoms- are relieved with ice-capsand cool sponges. Cardiac weakness should be combatedby heart stimulants. Isolation and Disinfection in Contagious Cases.—Pro-phylaxis should be complete, as the disease is highlycontagious and is prone to lea^e many serious complica-tions. The room selected should be at the top of thehouse if practicable, and it should have plenty of ventila-tion and be bright and sunshiny. All upholstered furni-ture should be removed, curtain^ and hangings takendown, and the carpets taken up. Where possible, two rooms and a bath should be setaside for the nurse and the patient. They must be iso-lated from the rest of the house, and no one should beallowed in the room except the physician and the nurses.,imless he gives permission. The nurse should not eat her meals in the room with thepatient. The room should be wiped up daily with a duster moist-ened with carbolic, bichlorid, or a 2 per cent, formalinsolutions. The floor should be swept with a broom. Scarlatinal angina (third day) (Hecker, Trumpp, and Abt).
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