Where There Is No Doctor 2011
Chapter 10
FIRST AID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Basic Cleanliness and Protection 75
Fever 75
Shock 77
Loss of Consciousness 78
When Something Gets Stuck in the
Throat 79
Drowning 79
When Breathing Stops: Mouth-to-Mouth
Breathing 80
Emergencies Caused by Heat 81
How to Control Bleeding from a Wound 82
How to Stop Nosebleeds 83
Cuts, Scrapes, and Small Wounds 84
Large Cuts: How to Close Them 85
Bandages 87
Infected Wounds 88
Bullet, Knife, and Other Serious Wounds 90
Emergency Problems of the Gut
(Acute Abdomen) 93
Appendicitis, Peritonitis 94
Burns 96
Broken Bones (Fractures) 98
How to Move a Badly Injured Person 100
Dislocations
(Bones Out of Place at a Joint) 101
Strains and Sprains 102
Poisoning 103
Snakebite 104
Other Poisonous Bites and Stings 106
Chapter 11
NUTRITION: WHAT TO EAT TO BE HEALTHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Sicknesses Caused by Not Eating Well 107
Special Diets for Specific Health
Why It Is Important to Eat Right 109 Problems 124
Preventing Malnutrition 109
Anemia 124
Main Foods and Helper Foods 110
Rickets 125
Eating Right to Stay Healthy 111
High Blood Pressure 125
How to Recognize Malnutrition 112
Fat People 126
Eating Better When You Do Not Have Much
Constipation 126
Money or Land 115
Diabetes 127
Where to Get Vitamins: In Pills or
Acid Indigestion, Heartburn, and Stomach
in Foods? 118 Ulcers 128
Things to Avoid in Our Diet 119
Goiter
The Best Diet for Small Children 120 (A Swelling or Lump on the Throat) 130
Harmful Ideas about Diet 123
Chapter 12
PREVENTION: HOW TO AVOID MANY SICKNESSES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Cleanliness—and Problems from Lack
Trichinosis 144
of Cleanliness 131
Amebas 144
Basic Guidelines of Cleanliness 133
Giardia 145
Sanitation and Latrines 137
Blood Flukes
Worms and Other Intestinal Parasites 140 (Schistosomiasis, Bilharzia) 146
Roundworm (Ascaris) 140
Vaccinations (lmmunizations)—Simple,
Pinworm (Threadworm, Enterobius) 141 Sure Protection 147
Whipworm (Trichuris) 142
Other Ways to Prevent Sickness and Injury 148
Hookworm 142
Habits That Affect Health 148
Tapeworm 143