Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1991. január-június (45. évfolyam, 1-26. szám)
1991-05-23 / 21. szám
8, AMERIKAI MAGYAR SZÓ Thursday, May 23. 1991. ORVOS* ~ _ A CSALÁDBAN _ ■■ Ulöidegzsába: Isiász Az ülőidegzsaba, ülőideg-pailladás (sciatica) rendkívül fájdalmas es néha sokáig elhúzódó betegség. Oka lehet az ágyék-ke- reszttáji Ízületnek a sérülése, betegsege: meghűlés, szifilis, alkoholizmus, arzén és ólommérgezés, vérkeringési zavarok, daganatos elváltozások a medence űri szervekben, a hátgerinc vap? medence csontok tuberkulózisa, gócfertŐzes stb.. A gyógykezelés és a gyógyítás módja tökéletesen az előidéző ok természetétől függ. Legelső sorban rendkívül tüzetes vizsgálat alapjan azt kell eldönteni, hogy a fájdalom oka idegzsába (neuralgia), vagy pedig ideggyulladás (neuritis). A baj lefolyása ugyanis e kettőnél nem egyforma. Az idegek működési vizsgálata, a reflexek viselkedése képes eldönteni e kettő közötti különbséget. Minél hamarabb fogunk hozzá a gyógyításhoz, minél hamarabb vagyunk kepesek kikutatni az előidéző okot, annál nagyobb a valószínűség, hogy a baj nem megy át úgynevezett krónikus stádiumba, amelynek a gyógyítása néha hónapokat és éveket is igénybe vehet. Szorgosan kell kutatni fertőzési gócok után es ha olyan található, akkor azokat sürgősen és feltétlenül el kell távolittat- ni. Ilyenek: a rossz fogak, a gyulladásokon sokszor átesett elsorvadt, vagy megduzzadt mandulák, az orr és melléküregeinek a gennyes betegsége. Teljes ágynyugalom a gyors gyógyulásnak elengedhetetlen feltétele. Addig szükséges ágyban maradni, mig a fájdalom tökéletesen meg nem szűnik. A meleg alkalmazása (akár meleg viztomlö, villany melegítők, sugár kezeles stb.) rendszerint kedvezően befolyásolja a fájdalmakat, bár fájdalom csillapító orvosságokra is nagy szükség van a legtöbb esetben. A diéta (étrend) nagyban függ attól, hogy nincs-e cukor vagy vesebaja az illetőnek. Ha igen, akkor speciális diétára van szükség, ellenkező esetben az étrendnek jó táplálónak kell lennie. Naponkénti székletről feltétlen gondoskodni kell. Ha a baj krónikussá vált, akkor szükségessé válik a fürdőkezelések, masszírozások, villanykezelések igénybevétele is. Súlyos, makacs és gyógyulni nem akaró esetekben a kereszttáji gerincoszlopon keresztül a velözsákba fecskendezett (injection) orvosságos folyadék a legtöbb esetben gyógyulást eredményez. NB 1 LABDARUGÓMÉRKOZÉSEK EREDMÉNYEI 26. forduló május 18. SIOFOK - PÉCS 1:0 VESZPRÉM - VASAS , 0:1 BÉKÉSCSABA - VOLÁN 0:1 FERENCVÁROS - RÁBA ETO 1:2 SZEGED - HONVÉD 1:3 DEBRECEN - MTK-VM 1:7 TATABÁNYA - VÁC 2:0 Uj. DÓZSA - VIDEOTON-WALTHAM 2:0 THE HUNGARIAN AMERICAN OBSERVER Hungary's Strange Bedfellows BUDAPEST. If Thomas Szomor wants to see his ex-wife, whom he divorced five years ago, he does not need to go far at night. He can just roll over in bed. It's not that the Szomors reconciled. Rather, because of Hungary's acute housing crisis, the divorce judge told them to continue living together. Their cramped apartment, too small for anyone to take a full stride without smacking into a wall, or furniture, has just two rooms, one for their sons and one for them. Their room has barely enough space for a small table with chairs and their double bed, which folds out from an old couch. Thomas and Maria must sleep together, sharing a hatred of their plight but divided by what Thomas calls a "demarcation line" along the center of the bed. "Nothing happens," he declared, nodding toward the mattress. Of 25.000 divorces in Hungary, in 1989, about 4,500 concluded with the judge ordering the ex-spouses to share their apartment because neither could afford new housing, according to the Justice Ministry. There is a waiting list of 81.000 names for subsidized housing in Budapest. Hungary's transition from communism to capitalism is improving some facets of life, but not, so far, the housing crisis. As the government retires slowly from the subsidized housing business, market rents have soared beyond the reach of ordinary people. This is occurring amid a recession, and is in part due to the arrival of foreigners and the need for office space by newly created small firms. The housing crisis is affecting more than just divorced couples. Most unmarried people in their twenties or thirties live with their parents, newlyweds often start their married life living in a room with one of their families, sometimes for years. If they are lucky enough to find an affordable one-room apartment, they outgrow it with their first child. The former Communist government gave housing priority to couples with children, and the more the better. As a result, officials now acknowledge, many couples with just one child had one or two more to decrease the waiting time for an apartment. INVESTMENTS IN HUNGARY By:Peter Maass BUDAPEST. When the U.S. government opened an office here to disburse a $60 million fund for aiding Hungary's infant private sector, people lined up outside the entrance and deluged the staff with thousands of questions and applications. Some entrepreneurs sought money to open sex shops, massage parlors or escort services and figured the U.S. government would be interested. Others suggested cemeteries. Twenty-one people from a farming village asked for pigs. More than a handful of Hungarians just asked for money, to help pay the bills. "The impression was created that the money was going to be handed to anyone who stood in line and wanted $20.000 or $30.000," said Charles Huebner, managing director of the Hungarian-American Enterprise Fund, one of several set up by Congress to nurture private enterprise in Eastern Europe. Other such funds have allocated $240 million to Poland and $60 million to Czechoslovakia. Huebner, an American businessman who emigrated from Hungary as a child decades ago, quickly dispelled the notion of a handout and embarked on an energetic and unexpected investment program. Instead of sprinkling the money among a large number of small, struggling firms on the rough edge of expanding capitalism, the fund's semi-independent managers are mainly making six-and seven-figure investments in "safe" companies. In some cases that has meant backing enterprises headed by former communists with business backgrounds. "The big problem is the economic skills of the starting businessmen," said Elisabeth Birman, a Hungarian banker and one of the eight directors of the innovative fund, which is run by profit-oriented business executives rather than paper-oriented government officials. "They can't put on the table a good feasibility study. They don't know what cash flow means." But many of the Hungarians who do know about cash flow, and much more are former managers of state firms or government bureaucrats, most of them lifelong members of the country's Communist Party. They have the kinds of knowhow, language skills and tidy wardrobes that impress investment-fund managers. The Hungarian-American Enterprise Fund drew concerned attention from U.S. diplomats here by investing in a new record company called Quint, which is run by JenÖ Bors, longtime manager of a state- owned record company until he was fired by the new democratic government last year. Bors, raised in the Soviet Union, joined Hungary's Communist Party in his youth and quit last year. The reasons for his firing are unclear, though Hungarian government officials accuse him of being a symbol of communist culture. Bors laughs off the charges and contends he was fired because of petty jealousies and the nationalist-tinged government's desire to destroy his plans for selling a stake in the state record firm to a foreign company. After he set up Quint he had no trouble raising money from a variety of investors. The Petóháza Sugar Mill is to be transformed into a joint stock company in a joint venture form with a foundation capital of 3.7 billion forints.The Hungarian partner's stake is 2.6 billion.
