CHILDREN'S NOSES | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 21, 1892

CHILDREN'S NOSES.

Why Parents Should Look after Them with Great Care

TELL parents to look after their children's noses, said a physician the other day. A child begins to talk through his nose, and it is too often accepted as a habit that will correct itself when he is older. Nine times out of ten it indicates the presence of a trouble that increases with years, and that produces a train of more or less serious consequences.

Various growths and malformations easily removed in a child become much more formidable in the adult, yet the manifest presence of these is disregarded. The nose is so intimately connected with the throat and lower breathing apparatus that trouble in the nasal passages is sure sooner or later to extend. Boys are peculiarly liable to trouble with the nose from the bumps which they get in their rough play. It isn't necessary to break the nose to inflict a serious injury; unless that happens, however, nothing is thought of the hard knocks boys get on the nose until long after, when the trouble ceases to be dormant. The voice, of course, is soon affected with imperfect nasal air passages. It has been demonstrated, too, that catarrh in a growing child has to an extent a reflex action upon his mental development.

Parents should realize their responsibilities and their resources. These are days when many evils heretofore considered irremediable admit of correction always and possible cure if taken in time. A child allowed to grow up with such, unrelieved, has a right to hold his guardians to an account and explanation of the neglect.—Home Queen.