Vaginal Discharge Treat it considerately It is fairly common for young girls to develop slight vaginal discharges. A majority of these are caused by unimportant germs and clear up in a short time. A thick, profuse discharge that is irritating may be caused by a more serious infection... 

Urinary Disturbances Late bed-wetting (enuresis). There are a number of different causes. A very few cases are due to physical disease, hi these there are usually symptoms, such as inability to control the urine in the daytime, that make the doctor suspicious. The great majority of... 

Rheumatic Fever It takes many forms. Rheumatic fever is a disease that affects the joints, the heart, and other parts of the body. The liability to it runs in certain families. Doctors believe that it is a reaction in some part of the body (a joint or the heart, for instance) to... 

Tuberculosis Tuberculosis is different in infants, children, and adults. Most people think of tuberculosis as it occurs typically in adults. A “spot,” or cavity, develops in the lung, and produces such symptoms as fatigue, loss of appetite, loss of weight, fever, cough,... 

Quarantine Quarantine or isolation  for contagious diseases.  Ongeneral principles, it’s a good idea to keep a child with a contagious disease away from all other members of the household except the one person who is taking care of him. This is, first of all, to prevent others—either... 

Infantile paralysis (anterior poliomyelitis) In the summer and early fall, when most epidemics of infantile paralysis occur, parents naturally think of this disease whenever a child becomes sick. It begins, like many other infections, with a general sick feeling, fever, and headache.... 

Diphtheria Diphtheria is a serious but completely unnecessary disease. If your child is given 3 injections in infancy and booster shots at 1 year and tlien every 3 years, there’s practically no chance of his catching it. It begins with feeling sick, sore throat, and fever. Dirty-white... 

Scarlet Fever Scarlet fever usually begins with some of these symptoms: sore throat, vomiting, fever, headache. The rash is not apt to appear for a day or two. It begins on the warm, moist parts of the body, such as the sides of the chest, the groin, the back where the child has been... 

Chicken Pox, Whooping Cough, Mumps Chicken pox The first sign of chicken pox is usually a few of the characteristic pimples on the body and face. These pox are raised up like ordinary small pimples, but some of them have tiny, yellow water blisters on top. The base of the pimple and... 

Measles, German Measles, Roseola Measles Measles for the first 3 or 4 days has no rash. It looks like a bad cold that is becoming worse. The eyes are red and watery. If you pull the lower lid down, you see that it is angry red. There is a hard, dry cough that becomes frequent. The...