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2B Daily News – Tuesday, March 5, 2013 High school junior tired of being a perfect little angel mailed some old pictures of him Dear Annie: I'm a junior in I had discovered. His thank-you high school. I thought everynote included an invitation to thing would happen this year — call "them" if I was ever in his the great friends, the boyfriend, area. etc. On all of the TV shows, the I will be traveling to the city juniors are having boys over, where he lives in April. While I getting drunk, going on dates, am eager to suggest meeting for having sex and so much more. I lunch, I am not sure this would know my life isn't a TV show, but I'm no different than last Annie's be proper. I believe he is married, but my intentions are only year. to catch up with someone for I want a boyfriend. I want to party. I want to have my first by Kathy Mitchell whom I once cared greatly. kiss. I want to be a teenager. But and Marcy Sugar Should I invite him with his wife? Should I simply shelve I feel as distant from my friends as ever. And there is a boy I really like the entire idea? — Perplexed in who is sweet, kind, smart and nonjudg- Phoenix Dear Phoenix: You are over-thinkmental, but I'm not allowed to date. I know that being a teenager means dis- ing this. By all means, suggest meeting obeying my parents, and though that for lunch, and please include his wife. seems like the worst thing I could ever If you only want to reminisce and catch up, there should be no hint of ulterior do, I'm slipping. I don't know what to do. My grades motives. You might even make a new and alcohol and this boy and drugs are friend. Dear Annie: "Conflicted Adoptee all lurking in my mind. I'm tired of being this perfect little angel. I know from Kansas" wanted her birth mother I'm only 16, but what do I do? — Trou- to tell her other children that they have a sibling. bled in High School I gave up a son 30 years ago. When Dear Troubled: Don't believe everything you see on TV. Those pro- he was 18, we got together to discuss grams are an enhanced version of what why I gave him up. I had to tell my girls the producers and writers think is excit- that they have a half-brother. Although ing to watch. Seeing kids fall apart is that part went well, answering questions interesting — like watching a train from my son was a lot harder. It opened wreck. Most high school juniors are not up all kinds of wounds. I was worried out partying, drinking, having sex and about his opinion of me, but he was so doing drugs. They are going to school, mature. He said, "I know you are not the studying and working at part-time jobs. same person you were back then." It is difficult to open your heart to And the smart ones are also listening to their parents because they recognize someone, even if you feel they have the right to the information. "Conflicted" that they have a future to consider. Talk to your parents about dating — should let her birth mother know she most kids are allowed to do so at 16. isn't judging her, and that she respects You also can discuss these issues with her wishes about telling her children. your school counselor, favorite teachers Giving up a child was probably the and other adults you respect and trust. hardest thing she has ever done. — We totally understand that you hoped Mom on Both Sides your life would suddenly become Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy amazing, but please don't be foolish enough to mess up the good things you Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime have by letting your hormones run editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to away with your common sense. Dear Annie: I am a 70-year-old anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write widow who parted ways with my first to: Annie's Mailbox, c/o Creators love 50 years ago. Our only contact Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa since then was five years ago, when I Beach, CA 90254. Mailbox Treat peptic ulcer by removing bacterial cause website, AskDoctorK.com.) DEAR DOCTOR K: I've To help prove the point, Marbeen diagnosed with a peptic shall swallowed the bacteria ulcer. What does that mean? — and shortly thereafter And what's the treatment? developed peptic ulcers. DEAR READER: A peptic For a decade their ideas ulcer is a sore or hole that were ridiculed. But slowly the forms in the lining of the stomevidence became undeniable. ach or upper part of the small The bacteria were even identiintestine (called the duodenum). If your ulcer is small, Dr. K fied as a cause of stomach cancer. In 2005, Marshall and you may have few symptoms. by Anthony L. But if the ulcer is deep, it can Komaroff, M.D. Warren were honored with the Nobel Prize — and very few cause bleeding or serious pain. What causes the ulcer? For many of their colleagues who had ridiculed decades, doctors thought they knew them apologized. Another common cause of stomach the answer: It was acid. Stress and psychological problems led a person lining irritation and ulcers is nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs to make too much stomach acid. It was a reasonable theory. Your (NSAIDs) such as aspirin, ibuprofen stomach does make acid to help you (Advil, Motrin) and naproxen (Aleve, digest food. The acid also could digest Naprosyn). NSAIDs block the formayour stomach if it weren't protected. tion of certain chemicals that normalBut it is: Your stomach is lined with a ly help protect against ulcers. Contrary to popular belief, stress layer of special cells and mucus. The mucus protects the lining of the stom- and spicy foods do not seem to ach and duodenum from damage by increase the risk of ulcers. Treatment of ulcers depends on acid and digestive enzymes. The "acid theory" held that peptic their cause. Ulcers caused by H. ulcers were caused either by too much pylori are treated with antibiotics and stomach acid, or by a failure in the acid-suppressing medication. Sucproduction of protective mucus, or cessfully killing the H. pylori bacteria both. Almost everyone was convinced will greatly reduce your chances of the acid theory was correct, even developing another ulcer. If your ulcer was caused by an though there was little evidence for it. Beginning in the early 1980s, two NSAID, the treatment is to stop taking young Australian doctors — Barry it. Your ulcer will begin to heal almost Marshall and Robin Warren — pur- immediately. You'll also take medicasued a very different theory. They tions to reduce acid damage during found an unusual kind of bacteria, healing. These may include antacids Helicobacter pylori, inside many pep- to neutralize stomach acids. Or you tic ulcers. They argued that these bac- may take H2 blockers or proton pump teria cause inflammation, weakening inhibitors to decrease the amount of the stomach lining and the protective acid your stomach produces. Acid mucus. When stomach acid got into makes any ulcer worse, but as Marthe ulcer, it made the ulcer worse. shall and Warren showed, the acid is (I've put an illustration of this on my not the cause of peptic ulcers. HELP WANTED AUTO ROUTE DRIVER WANTED North Red Bluff Area Must be 21 or older & bondable. Call or apply in person Circulation Dept. Red Bluff Daily News (530) 527-2151 ext 128 DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY