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8A Daily News – Friday, November 1, 2013 FEATURES Mites, mold, dander likely asthma culprit sages in the lungs. DEAR DOCYou can help TOR K: I have control these asthma. Lately my allergens: symptoms have — Clean and been worse at vacuum your bednight. Why is that? room frequently. DEAR READ— Wash your ER: I put many bedding frequentquestions to what I Dr. K ly in hot water. call the "grand— Remove mother test." My by Anthony L. mother's mother Komaroff, M.D. carpets and heavy draperies from did not have much education, but she was sleeping areas. — Keep pets out of smart and had great common sense. Her answer to your bedroom and bathe your question would have them regularly. Asthma sufferers can been: "There's something in your bedroom that's also be quite sensitive to irritating your lungs." environmental conditions. Your asthma may be reactThat's what I think, too. As you know, asthma is ing to air that is too hot, a long-term lung condi- too cold, too moist or too tion in which air passages dry. Experiment with narrow and become adjusting the temperature inflamed. This leads to and humidity in your bedbreathing difficulties and room and see what works best for your asthma. wheezing. Another possibility is The things in your bedroom that are most likely that your controller medito trigger attacks of asth- cine is wearing off too ma are dust mites, mold or quickly. A controller medicine, such as an inhaled animal dander. Dust mites are tiny, corticosteroid, helps prebarely visible insects that vent asthma symptoms. live in our homes and feed Ask your doctor if you on flakes of our skin. When need to increase your you sleep, the oldest outer dose, or take a dose before layer of your skin tends to you go to bed. Many people find that come off when it rubs against the sheets. The dust lying down makes them uncomfortable, mites love that. These little more critters are built of sub- although the asthma itself stances that irritate the air isn't worse. Try propping yourself up rather than passages in our lungs. The same is true of lying flat in bed. Finally, gastroemold. There is some mold in every home. Since mold sophageal reflux (GERD) likes damp places, there's may be causing your likely to be more mold in symptoms to worsen at bathrooms, basements and night. A small amount of poorly ventilated areas of stomach acid can come the house. Molds are a back up your esophagus type of fungi. Individual- and slide into your upper ly, molds are invisible, but airways, irritating them. when millions of them Try propping up the head grow on something, like of your bed, or ask your an overripe piece of fruit, doctor about over-thecounter and prescription you can see them. Cats, dogs and other medications that can help animals shed their skin control GERD. I'll bet that one of these and hair (their dander) just as we do. Animal dander suggestions will help you contains substances that — and prove that my can irritate the air pas- grandmother was right! Bears break into car in Colorado, tear up interior GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado man who had some serious vandalism done to his car says he think he knows the culprits — a family of bears that has been roaming his neighborhood. Bob Monzel of rural Jefferson County says he believes a mother bear and her cubs entered his Honda Element sometime late Monday or early Tuesday and went on a rampage while trying to get out. KMGH-TV reports (http://tinyurl.com/qzto48n ) the bears clawed the car doors, smashed the plastic dashboard, and left electrical wires dangling from the ceiling. Yellow insulation is all that's left of the seat cushions. There was no food inside, but Monzel's family did leave a package of gum and mints in the vehicle after washing it over the weekend. Monzel says he was ''floored'' by the damage. The car is insured. Depression, substance abuse may be cause for screening information. Dear Annie: I am one of Dear Annie: I had emersix boys. We are all very gency gall bladder surgery different. My oldest brother, last July. Thinking it was ''Tanner,'' just turned 20. indigestion, I ignored the He is more of an introvert, symptoms until the pain and we realize this, but he became severe. has done nothing with his Here's what flummoxed life and shows no interest in me: While I was in the hosdoing so. He doesn't have a job and refuses to look for Annie's pital, my husband called a close friend to let her know. one. He also hasn't applied She said she would be right for college. We've tried everything by Kathy Mitchell over. I was in a lot of pain, from coaxing and bribing to and Marcy Sugar had an oxygen tube in my nose and also was dozing off threatening, but nothing has worked. My parents are at their from the medication. She swooped wits' end. We've tried talking to in and immediately started grilling him and asking why he has shown me, asking why I had oxygen, who so little interest in anything and why did the surgery, and on and on. She he won't even help with housework kept asking more probing questions when he's home all day. He just sits, until she made me uncomfortable, stone-faced, and can't provide a rea- as if I were wrong to have had the surgery in the first place. son for being a freeloading slug. I tried to change the subject, askI am out of high school and have a part-time job. My parents both ing about the memorial service for work, and so does my 16-year-old a friend. My husband then made a brother. Please tell me what we can stupid, flippant comment about do to help get this kid out into the open caskets, and my friend just exploded and ran out of the room. I world. — End of the Rope Dear End: Has your brother haven't heard from her since. We been screened for depression? Is live in a small town, and whenever there a possibility of drug or alcohol she sees me, she scuttles away. I sent her a note to find out what use? Any of these things could be contributing to his lethargy and lack caused this rift, but she ignored it. I of motivation. If he is simply free- think she's ashamed of her behavloading, the easiest way to fix that is ior, and rightly so. I'm not interestto make him support himself and be ed in renewing the friendship, but I responsible for his own living am still angry at how she treated arrangements. But he sounds me. I wish my husband had asked depressed to us. Your parents can her to leave the hospital when she visit HelpYourselfHelpOthers.org couldn't stop criticizing my doctor. Mailbox Should I try to speak with her? — Sadder but Wiser Behind the Redwood Curtain Dear Sadder: There are people who react poorly when confronted with a friend who is ill. Some become so distressed that they lose control of their behavior. Others need to be in charge of your care and resent learning about it secondhand, becoming irrationally angry. You are not likely to get a satisfying explanation, and she doesn't seem willing to admit how inappropriate her behavior was. Forgive her and then move on. Dear Annie: I want to respond to ''Frustrated in Louisville,'' whose husband constantly interrupts her. On several occasions, I've been asked a question, only to have someone else answer it or interrupt my answer. When this happens, I simply say, ''It's tough being a ventriloquist, but the best part is having your dummy speak for you.'' After the usual laughter, the offending person learns not to do it again. Of course, this might not be the best response to a spouse. — Ventriloquist in Ohio Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. 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