THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1981
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Rest and fluids are only
prescriptions for mono
By CATHERINE J. THOMAS
Battalion Reporter
So you have a sore throat, fatigue, swollen
lymph nodes, a fever and a rash and you feel
all-around lousy?
Well, you’d better see a doctor, because those
are the symptoms of infectious mononucleosis —
mono.
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disease.
A.P. Beutel Health Center’s Dr. C.B. Gos-
wick said that mono is a tonsillitis that is simply
spread by contact with carriers, usually room-
But, he said, “Just casual exposure isn’t prob-
Mono is contagious, but not everyone who is
exposed to it will develop the symptoms.
“Someone can feel bad and not be contagious,
or vice versa,” he said. “That’s what keeps it going
around.”
There’s nothing that can prevent it, he said.
“They (mono patients) usually get over here (the
health center) sooner or later” for treatment, he
said.
Goswick said even though mono is “a little
more prevalent in the winter,” there is usually
someone in the health center every day being
treated for mononucleosis.
If infectious mononucleosis is diagnosed by a
physical examination and a blood test, Goswick
said all the doctors can do is recommend physical
rest and fluids.
“Medication is of no real value,” he said.
“Usually they’re sick enough at the begin
ning,” Goswick said, to be in the acute stage,
which usually lasts five days to a week.
They have “terrible-looking tonsils,” and gen
erally feel bad, he said.
During this time Goswick advises patients to
get plenty of rest and not to go to class, where
their coughing will spread germs.
After the acute stage, Goswick said the patient
will usually feel better in the next stage — the
convalescent stage — but still must take things
easy for a month to six weeks.
He said the patient is less contagious during
this period, although there is no “shut-off time.”
Goswick said during convalescence the patient
is followed up with bloodwork or white blood
counts, until they come out negative.
So if you have had mono, or if you get it in the
future, there’s one good thing that will come of it.
Goswick said people who have had mono develop
a relative immunity to the disease.
TTI says gas mileage helpers
usually have little or no effect
By DIANA SULTENFUSS
Battalion Reporter
Gadgets claimed to increase a
vehicle’s gas mileage usually don’t
have any effect at all, an assistant
research engineer with the Texas
Transportation Institute says.
“What you’re basically getting
is something that doesn’t work,”
Rick Tonda said. “My data indi
cate that these devices just don’t
improve gas mileage.”
Most of the devices treat the
fuel in some manner before it en
ters the carburetor of the engine,
usually heating it, he said.
“All these devices can improve
mileage a little,” Tonda said. “If
you add heat to fuel, you will bum
less while the engine is idling.
Therefore, if you spend a lot of
time idling your engine, you will
notice an improvement. But that
is only a small portion of most peo
ple’s driving time.”
Tonda said that more than 300
such devices are available now and
more than 150 have been tested
by the Environmental Protection
Agency or a test facility certified
by the EPA. TTI has tested six or
seven of these gadgets.
The devices are usually sold by
mail through advertisements in
newspapers and magazines and
may range in price from $23 to
$300, Tonda said. “Most of them
have a lot of hardware which
affects the price.”
The devices are tested using the
Federal Test Procedure, a stan
dard group of tests set by the EPA
to be used for each gadget. This is
to insure the test results can be
compared with some base figures.
The TTI usually does initial
testing in a controlled environ
ment using a dynamometer and
doesn’t take the engine out of the
building, Tonda said. The initial
testing compares the gas mileage
of an engine before and after the
device is installed, he said.
If the gadget proves to affect
the gas mileage in some way, the
device is tested in cars under city
and highway conditions simulated
at the facility. These conditions
are simulated so the testing will be
the same every time.
Tonda said the TTI tries to test
the devices on a basis proposed by
the EPA. “We try to use engines
representative of the current
population,” he said.
An inventor who has developed
a device of this type can contact
the EPA to do a free preliminary
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By RUTH GRAVES
Battalion Reporter
Each of us perceives colors dif-
ently. And, what’s more, our
ierences in perceptions of color
Texas A« y g 0 unnoticed since we learn
is mucli s associate color names with the
itetoCaji y we see colors.
StateCapi However, some people, espe-
nd let’s ie Uy males, have color percep-
aproblems that are evident be-
Schwarti ise re ^ er t0 co * ors by the
ong names.
•About 8 percent of males and
5 percent of females have some
pe of “incomplete color blind-
fovmls; Dr. Barry Glenn, a Bryan
ithamologist, said.
Although color perception
oblems are typically termed
olor blindness,” few people are
tually totally blind to color, he
r are ag® ^ “(] 0 ] or weakness” more
. In the pi cura tely reflects the problem,
tion to rep'Total color blindness would cause
t situation: aperson to see everything in tones
m Club, of gray, just like black and white
/ill bemaiifiovies.
diansheitj f Although some color weaknes-
In onk^obe caused by certain illnes
ses or drugs, the main culprit is
heredity, Glenn said.
Color weaknesses are carried
XY chromosomes and are re
cessive. In other words, the usual
item of heredity is from father
daughter to son. There is a high-
e to helpg® incidence of color weakness in
ou have i' s ° the trait usually bypas
ses females in the fink.
( The colors that most people
have difficulty seeing accurately
are red, green and blue, Glenn
Weaknesses in identifying
fors are usually caught in eye
laminations where people are
iked to identify a colored number
lat is surrounded by a different-
ilored field.
Many people with color weak-
Jesses can correctly identify col-
:ni sawakthat are isolated; however,
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, . f i another, color weaknesses can be
Iwasl " i [elected.
Whenh Department of Public
the streei Sjfety gi ves co j or tests on or jgj na j
nd ofminf'driver’s license applications, but
iur letter 5 these tests only include red, yel-
is owners ow and green, Department of
d home. Mdic Safety representative Pat
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i.; those colors, he doesn’t automa-
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Although color tests are done in
conjunction with routine eye ex
ams, a person may not find out for
years that he has a color weakness.
He may not have been given a
test, or he may have a problem
with colors that are not usually
included on tests.
For example, Robbie Nohm, a
Texas A&M senior from New
Braunfels, didn’t know he had a
color weakness until last year. In
describing a Corps uniform over
the phone, he said the uniform
shirt was dark brown. His clue
that he had a color weakness came
when his roommate insisted the
shirt was dark green.
As might be expected, prob
lems can arise when trying to color
coordinate clothes.
“The hardest thing to do is to
get a suit together,” Nohm said. “I
get the guys next door to do that. ”
When driving at night, Nohrn
said he can’t distinguish white
street lights from green traffic
lights at a distance.
Naturally, some inconveni
ences can arise because of color
weaknesses. K. T. Graves, a for
mer football coach from Katy, said
that if he hadn’t seen the officials’
red flags as they were thrown, he
couldn’t have seen them on the
ground. Graves has a color weak
ness with greens and reds.
There is no way to determine if
he perceives colors they same way
others do, he said, but his weak
ness is evident when green and
red are adjacent.
Color weaknesses can also
affect pople in their occupations,
especially in the armed forces.
Although color weaknesses don’t
stop people from driving, they can
keep people from performing such
assignments as flying if the weak
ness is severe.
Color tests are routinely given
to personnel as they enter the
armed forces. Two tests are usual
ly given, in order to determine the
severity of a person’s color weak
ness, said Capt. Bob Hale, an air
science instructor at Texas A&M.
People with slight color weak
nesses can do some jobs in the
service, but other jobs require
people who have perfect color vi
sion. For example, missile person
nel must be able to distinguish col
ors because missiles have color-
coded controls. Hale said.
Weaknesses with reds and
greens are the main force in keep
ing personnel from doing some
jobs, he said.
Although red-green weaknes
ses are common, Glenn said many
people have trouble disting
uishing related colors.
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