CURE OF SORE NIPPLES.

Sore nipples in breast-feeding women: a clinical trial of wound dressings vs conventional care.

BACKGROUND Sore nipples in breast-feeding mothers are a common cause of premature weaning, and are difficult to treat owing to recurrent trauma and exposure to the infant's oral flora. OBJECTIVE To compare the safety and efficacy of a hydrogel moist wound dressing (Elasto-gel, Southwest Technologies Inc, Baltimore, Md) with the use of breast shells and lanolin cream in the treatment of matern...

Why do men have nipples?

Every day the home page of my internet service offers a selection of trivia including news of celebrities who are either sleeping with each other or splitting up. There is also usually an item of popular science, often packaged as ‘the latest research’. If one of these catches my eye I sometimes click on the link to read it in more detail. Two items I recently followed up in this way were heade...

Prevention of Sore Feet

To the Editor, " Indian Medical Gazette." ^IR,?A great deal lias been written and said about the prevention of sore feet in soldiers and sportsmen who perform marches ; still I take the liberty of suggesting a very simple remedy for this complaint which, trivial in itself, is of the greatest importance. For the last twelve years I have P?en accustomed to taking a great amount of pedestrian and ...

Treatment of Naga Sore

Naga Sore

Sir,?Recently I read with interest the ' Report on the Occurrence of Naga Sore in Calcutta' by Drs. Panja and Ghosh in your January issue. In my sixteen years' practice, the disease was rarely found here; though it has been always endemic in the hilly parts 30 to 40 miles off from this tea estate. In 1942, some labourers who were sent for road work to the hills near the Burma border returned wi...