European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Critic health amp so i e n c e vyv Vij. A a a a a a.  amps Doyle Hitman a medic inspects the feet of spec. Daniel Jackson Oft Hebsch military police in in Mannheim Germany one of the foot _ soldiers at Nijm Egen. Jackson stopped at an Aid station for help with recurring blisters. Sole repairs care for Nijm Egen s blisters by Doyle Tillman staff writer oot care during the recent Nijm Egen March varied among the different nationalities but the idea r was the same get the troops through the 100 Miles it american medical teams at the Netherlands March used a treatment that included an a a a injection and a Moleskin Patch. Dutch and other european teams used a More expensive compound called duo derm. And Cut bandages. Despite the Cost difference Quot there s _ no difference in the Quality of care we give marchers or what other countries. Give Quot said Gap. Kyle Campbell the . Army medical services officer at Nijm Egen. A foot care is in area of Medicine where Quot you can spend dollars or pennies Quot Campbell said. For Nijm Egen and the volume of Blister injuries the . Army took the sound business approach and used Moleskin Quot a Felt _ pad that Sticks to the skin and is designed to disperse friction and pressure Quot he said. He was unable to provide an exact Cost difference Between the two treatments. _ _ . Marchers had to have eaten and showered before the medical staff would attend to their blisters. Campbell said the treatment required patients to stay off the foot until the next morning. Medics usually made a Small incision with a Scalpel Blade to Drain a Blister s fluid. Sometimes it was necessary to use a Needle and syringe. Patients then received a tincture of Benzoin injected into the Blister. Tincture of Benzoin is a diluted alcohol based Antiseptic compound. On raw flesh it Burns As it sterilized. Within a. A minute after injecting the tincture i medics syringe it from the Blister. The treatment basically glued dead skin Back to the tender flesh of the foot acted As a drying agent quickened the callous process and toughened the foot. A the injured foot was left exposed overnight to Aid the Healing process. The skin became Sticky which helped the Moleskin Patch adhere the next morning when it was applied by the Soldier or a medic. Applications continued at each of the three Aid stations. And when the March was Complete the process began anew. In contrast the dutch and other. European medical teams Cut away the dead skin and exposed the sensitive raw under skin. They used a drying compound and applied duo derm a porous substance almost like beeswax to the exposed area and Cut the Patch to _ fit. _ a the dutch then applied strips of tape layered from the top of the wound to the opposite end. It seemed much the same As the a american procedure until it was time to remove and replace the Patch which As with the american treatment was done every Day. _. A a Quot i Don t like the duo derm because it has to be peeled off daily and it just a peels away More of the raw flesh Quot said Campbell. Quot at least with Moleskin our soldiers still had a layer of dead skin protecting the  treatment of some kind was an absolute Nec Nesity at Nijm Egen. Quot people s feet literally looked like raw hamburger. It looked like they were in a fire Quot Campbell said. Amazingly having feet that resembled hamburger or having been through a fire did not cause a lot of disqualifications the Captain said. Campbell attributed a Low dropout rate to physical conditioning diet weather types of military boots and Overall foot condition _ prior to Nijm Egen. American teams at Nijm Egen 94 disqualified Only 16 marchers due to medical reasons said staff sgt. Gerald Stoner he co det 68th medical group Wiesbaden Germany eleven were due to heat related conditions and five to foot related  a single american Soldier was disqualified for just blisters said Stoner the five foot related injuries began As blisters but Stoner said they had since. Become infected or inflamed and shown an excessive loss of skin. Campbell praised the american military medical staff at Nijm Egen for its ability to work so Well without any previous joint experience. Quot our goal was to provide Quality medical care and treatment to enable the maximum number of soldiers to finish the 100-mile March Quot he  Short ancient Bison uncovered construction at the University of Utah a research Park has unearthed the remains of an 18,000-year-old Bison an extinct Cousin of the Modem Buffalo. State Pale oncologist Dave Gillette said the female Bison died on the Beach of Anci Erit Lake Bonneville he great Salt lakes Freshwater predecessor and her Bones Sank slowly into the soil. The Bison species extinct for 11,000 years is thought to have resembled present Bison with the exception of having straight and not curved  As pest control a virus that kills a vegetable munching insect worked faster when armed with a toxic Gene from a scorpion raising prospects for using the approach in pest control a study says. In a Field test the genetically altered virus killed insects called cabbage loopers More quickly than Ordinary virus did reducing the amount of Plant damage by the insect. The implanted Gene lets the virus produce scorpion toxin. The work is reported in a recent Issue of the journal nature by scientists at the National u _ environmental research Council Institute of virology and environmental microbiology in Oxford England and  healthful saliva mothers who share spoons with their babies and kiss them on the Mouth May be protecting them from getting tooth cavities years later. Finnish researchers have found that mothers who Transfer saliva to their infants before their Teeth come in help build up the child a antibodies to the bacteria that initiate. Cavities. The rese Argi was published in a recent Issue of paediatric dentistry. The study started with 7-month-old infants who were examined periodically Over five to seven a years. By the end of the study conducted in a finnish City without fluoridated water the children who As infants had frequent Oral Contact with their mothers had significantly fewer cavities. A Viet vets and suicide the risk of suicide by Vietnam veterans a a increases with the severity and number of. Combat wounds the veterans administration says. A study of nearly 35,000 army vets by a researchers indicates that Vietnam vets who were badly hit or suffered More than one combat wound Are More Likely to commit suicide than vets of the same Era who did t Sene in Vietnam. The findings which contradict earlier studies. Showing that Vietnam vets had the same suicide rates As other veterans a were announced at a recent meeting of the society for epidemiological research. A from wire reports tuesday August 2, 1994 the stars and stripes