| FDA issues warning about cold medication for children
The Federal Food and Drug Administration issued a warning Thursday that children through the age of 2 should not be given over-the-counter cough and cold medicines. The agency also is considering whether OTC cold remedies are safe and effective for children younger than 12. Parents searching for a way to treat a cold in children can use Tylenol or acetaminophen for a fever, said Ellen Schumann, pediatrician at Marshfield Clinic Weston Center. "Another thing that helps a lot is saltwater nose drops or nasal spray," Schumann said. A saltwater spray releases the congestion and can be wiped away. "A parent could use a bulb syringe to suck it out, but it's not necessary," she said. Other treatments for a cold are to sleep with the head elevated, use a humidifier next to the bed when sleeping, stay well-hydrated and keep the nose lubricated with Vaseline, Schumann said.
Jury-rigged, jerry-built: Maybe a problem?
The word had popped up the week before in The New York Times Magazine article, "The Sleep-Industrial Complex," all about the mattress and pharmaceutical industries. The piece included a reference to a man who was such an enthusiast for Sleep Number Beds that he "jury-rigged something similar for his bulldog." On the subject of exactly how the dog expressed its preference for a particular Sleep Number, the author was silent. Jury-rigging is a term with nautical origins. "Rig" is one of those little words so short that it contains nearly infinite meanings (an early form of nanotechnology). One of its meanings is "the arrangement of masts, sails, etc., on a vessel." In the days of the tall ships, when a vessel on the high seas lost a mast in a storm or a battle, the ship's carpenter would fashion what was known as a jury mast from spare parts down in the hold.
10 Bar workers jailed following brutal assault
A Purley man has been jailed for beating a man so hard with a metal pole that it bent. Ralph Daley of Palamos, Church Road, Purley was sentenced to 18 months for violent disorder at the Inner London Crown Court today. The 45-year-old will serve half the sentence in custody and the rest on licence. He was sentenced along with four other men in connection with a brutal assault outside the Fridge Bar, Brixton on November 26 last year. Frederick Mallefroy, 43, of Kingston Road, Ilford, Essex was convicted in his absence of attempted GBH and sentenced to three-and-a-half years. Victor Carl Reid, 41, of Eamon Casey House, Mostyn Road, Brixton was convicted of violent disorder and sentence to two-and-a-half years in prison.
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