Fraternity-Testvériség, 1963 (40. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1963-05-01 / 5. szám
FRATERNITY 5 THE DOCTOR LOOKS AT TRAVEL Your itinerary is planned, the new clothes are packed and a neighbor will take care of the goldfish. You’ve been waiting for a long time to take this trip and nothing has been left to chance. Or has it? Have you made provision for the excitement of travel, changes in food and water, or the effects on your body of radical time-zone changes? Physicians say travelers and vacationers on the move are more subject to disorders than are the same individuals in their day-to-day home routine. Sea and air sickness, too much sunburn and exposure are common complaints of the traveler. So are intestinal disorders brought on by changes in water, diet and climate; over-indulgence in food and drink, colds and flu, and just plain “nerves”. And doctors advise that along with that new vacation wardrobe or that briefcase — hallmark of the traveling businessman — you take a few simple remedies to prevent that queasy stomach, cold, sun-baked skin or sleeplessness. The pattern, doctors say, is usually sudden onset shortly after arrival in an unfamiliar locality or country, and just as sudden departure after twenty-four or forty-eight hours, leaving a deflated and exhausted traveler in its wake. But make no mistake about it. “Travel” is NOT confined exclusively to passports, visas and ocean-crossings. When you take that more-than- casual motor trip from home or cross the country on your vacation, you can become exposed to the body ills and aches one usually associates with long-distance travelers. Here at home, short plane and train trips, cross-country by motor car, vacation trips — all have inherent in them the changes in food, water, diet and drinking habits, rest and sleep, which can discomfort the human body and incommode the individual on his journey or holiday trip. Old wives’ tales and pseudo-medical folklore have produced scores of so-called remedies for the “turistas” — a south-of-the-border term for this many-labeled intestinal malady. Among these have been such staples as boiled rice, skim milk, tea and toast, all-cheese diets, nutmeg tea and that granddaddy of all home nostrums, blackberry brandy. Such folksy remedies may have offered some relief in their day, hut it took a team of medical researchers to come up with a convenient and efficient treatment. The result of their work is a capsule-shaped tablet, Diar-Aid, a fast-working formula that relieves intestinal irritation and cramps. A major reason this kind of tablet is so popular with travelers is that it takes up so little space and eliminates having to carry traditional liquid remedies in heavy, old-fashioned bulky bottles.
