Major Adjustment
The adjustment is the acute condition—M.C.P. and K.P. A greater length of time will be required, however, than in the acute stage, but the prognosis is always good. In caring for a child in this condition the parents and attendants should exercise care that there is no unnecessary irritation of the nose and local parts. The nose should be kept clean and as soft a handkerchief as possible used in wiping the nose. During the process of retracing discharge from the nose will pass through practically the same stages as during the progress from the acute stage. The process is just reversed. The scabs that form in the nose now begin to soften and the discharge continues to change until it becomes as it was in the beginning of the acute stage in a thin watery discharge. Finally the discharge ceases entirely and the child is well.