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IBy JANE STAFFORDPROBABLY not many people realize that the care of the eyes begins with life itself, as one authority, Dr. T. L, Terry, of Harvard Medical School, puts it. By this phrase Dr. Terry means the first beginning of life, before baby isborn.The faulty diet of the expectant mother,” he says, may be the cause of cataracts in the infant.This is one more reason for expectant mothers putting themselves under the care of a physician as soonas they think they are going to havea baby.Care of the baby’s eyes at birth, to prevent them from injury or infection, is also important. Most states now have laws requiring doctors and midwives to put antiseptic drops into baby’s eyes at birth, to guard them against infection. This is advised even if both parents are healthy, because venereal disease is not the only cause of eye infections at birth.Six general rules for eye care which Dr. Terry drew up have recently been published in a book for f lay reading. Health At Fifty, edited by Dr. William IT. Robey. These are as follows:1. Rend when and where you desire, but insist upon sufficient illumination and use glasses if they are needed.2? Do not try to save your vision by avoiding reading, sewing, or movies. You gain relatively nothing, because eyes do not wear out It is disease that destroys vision.3. As a general precaution have your eyes examined regularly at intervals of two or three years,.4. If disturbances :of vision, inflammation, pain, or headaches occur as the result of use of the eyes, they* should be examined more frequently.5. Beware most particularly of rainbowlike colors around artificial Eights or blurred vision which clears is the day advances.6. If you should develop some eye iisease have Jt investigated thoroughly, co-operate fully in the treatment, and avoid needless worry, for ear of blindness, often needless, is i condition which In. Itself causesnur.h Rrtfforir»frI1/sVr«clt;p;frItinoi!fliBigidcw.
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El Paso Herald Post
El Paso, Texas, US
Thu, May 18, 1939
Page 13
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