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Portland (Obstruer Page 6 northby northeast COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER May is High Blood Pressure Awareness Month! High blood pressure (hypertension) is our country’s most common health problem, affecting nearly one in three adults. Hypertension increases the risk of stroke and heart attack. Don’t let this happen to you! Make sure your BP is under control. This month - and every month - we offer free blood pressure checks between 9.00 am and 5:00 pm Monday - Friday. Come on by! 3030 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. | Portland Oregon 97212 503-287-49321 nxneclinic.org May 30, 2012 Laundry Pods Cause Safety Concerns Children confuse packets 1 with candy (AP) — The m aker o f Tide Pods will create a new double latch lid to deter children from accessing and eating the brightly colored detergent packets. Procter & Gam ble spokesman Paul Fox said the Cincinnati-based com pany plans to create a new lid on tubs o f Tide Pods "in the next couple o f weeks." The company continues to study the design o f the package, Fox said. D octors say children som e times swallow Tide Pods and simi lar laundry products, around 1 inch cubes that are meant to be dropped into a washing machine in place o f liquid or pow der deter gent. Nearly 250 cases nationally have been reported to poison con- Dr. Billy R. Flowers (above center) and his skilled sta ff are ready to help those in need. __________ .THE_____________ SPINAlCQLUMN An ongoing senes of questions and answers about Americas natural healing profession Part 3. ALLERGIES: Why Chiropractic often works more effectively than drugs. : Nothing else has ever really tem controls the body’s flow of just the sym ptoms, Chiropractic helped my allergies. What energy. We also know that when can often provide complete, last can Chiropractic possibly do? the spinal column is out of align ing relief. W ithout drugs or ment, it interferes with the central drowsiness. For help with your : First, take a look at the word nervous system’s flow of energy. allergy-related problem s or an itself. “Allergy” is a short When those nerves leading to the sw ers to any q u estio n s you ened form of “a/tered energy.” eyes or nose or throat are being might have about your health, Way back when patients first interfered with, “altered energy" your will find that Chiropractic complained of allergic symptoms, symptoms result. By correcting is often the answer. Call us for it was obvious to the physician the source o f the problem, not an appointm ent today. who coined the term that some how, the body’s energy configu ration had shifted and caused the 2124 N E Hancock, Portland Oregon97212 problem . Chiropractors now Phone: (5 0 3 ) 2 8 7 -5 5 0 4 know that the central nervous sys- Q A Flowers' Chiropractic Office M Laundry detergent makers introduced miniature packets meant to be dropped into a washing machine in palace o f liquid or powder detergent. But doctors across the country say children are confus ing the tiny, brightly colored packets with candy and swallowing them. (AP photo) trol centers this year, a figure that's expected to rise. No deaths have been reported. Alm ost all o f the cases so far have been reported since March, when several com panies began to m arket the packets. A handful o f children have been hospitalized for several days. Texas reported 71 instances of exposure this year, all but one in M arch or later. M issouri reported 25 cases related to the packets, and Illinois reported 26. Some children might be con fusing the tubs of colorfully swirled detergent packets for bowls o f candy, said Bruce D. Anderson, director o f operations at the M ary land Poison Center. Maryland has reported 15 cases this year. "Kids are very bright and will find a way to get to som ething that they want to get to," he said. Dr. M ichael B uehler o f the Carolinas Poison Center said Tide's tougher lid could make a differ ence. "In a nutshell, yes, it w ould be good, but I don't know enough," Buehler said. "It's too early to tell." The packets appear to cause m ore severe sym ptom s than typi cal detergent, possibly because a single packet has a full cup's worth o f detergent or because the pack ets m ight activate more quickly or differently. In suburban Philadelphia, a 17- m onth-old boy clim bed onto a dresser and popped a detergent package in his mouth. The boy vom ited , b ecam e drow sy and started coughing, said Dr. Fred Henretig o f the Poison Control Center at The Children's Hospital o f Philadelphia. The boy was put on a ventilator for a day and hospitalized for a week. ■BMMH Doctors Apologize for Nazi-era Crimes (AP) — G erm any's m edical association has adopted a decla ration apologizing for sadistic ex perim ents and other actions o f doctors under the Nazis. In the statem ent adopted ear lier this week in Nurem berg, the association said m any doctors under the Nazis were "guilty, con trary to their m ission to heal, o f scores o f hum an rights violations and we ask the forgiveness o f their victims, living and deceased, and o f their descendants." In a d d itio n to p e rfo rm in g pseudo-scientific experiments on concentration cam p inmates, Ger man doctors also were key to the Nazi's program o f forced steriliza tion or euthanasia o f the mentally ill or others deem ed "unworthy o f life." The medical association says "these crimes were not the actions o f individual doctors but involved leading members o f the medical community" and should be taken as a warning for the future.
