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2B Daily News – Wednesday, November 13, 2013 FEATURES Use duct tape to treat warts patch of duct tape DEAR DOCover your wart for TOR K: What is six days. Remove the best way to get the patch, soak rid of warts? and file the wart, DEAR READand leave it ER: Getting rid of u n c ove r e d warts can be a overnight. Reapchallenge. Fortuply the tape in the nately, the more effective treatDr. K morning and leave it in place for ments are the simby Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D. another six days. plest. Repeat for two Warts occur when skin cells grow months or until the wart faster than normal disappears. Use silver because they are infected duct tape, which is stickiwith the human papillo- er and has a particular mavirus (HPV). (I've put kind of adhesive. (I'm an illustration of wart repeating the advice that anatomy on my website, my skin specialist colleagues give patients. PerAskDoctorK.com.) Warts aren't highly sonally, I wouldn't have contagious, but they can the patience for this.) There are various treatspread from person to person by direct contact, ments that doctors can mainly through breaks in give you in the office: — With freezing the skin. Warts on one part of the body can also (cryotherapy), a clinician swabs or sprays liquid spread to other areas. Warts are generally nitrogen onto the wart. harmless and often disap- The extreme cold burns pear on their own over the skin, causing pain, time. As I write this col- redness and usually a blisumn, I'm watching a wart ter. Getting rid of the wart on my foot get smaller can take three or four with no treatment and treatments, although it's successful hoping it will just disap- sometimes pear. So "watchful wait- with just one. — Various other soluing" is definitely an option tions that "kill" warts can for new warts. On the other hand, be applied by the doctor. some warts disappear only They all have strange to later reappear. Even names: imiquimod, canwhen warts disappear tharidin, tretinoin, 5-fluocompletely, there still is rouracil. Don't try to prosome virus left in the skin nounce them — that's one cells. Treating a wart can of the things you pay your help lower the risk of doctor to do. Warts that don't recurrence. If you'd prefer not to respond to standard therawait it out, there are two pies may need treatment treatment options you can with prescription drugs or with a "zapping and cuttry yourself: — Salicylic acid, the ting" procedure done main ingredient in aspirin, under local anesthesia. Warts are an annoyis a good first choice. It costs little, has minimal ance. I've had a dermatolside effects and comes in ogist freeze several I've various over-the-counter gotten over the years. The preparations, including one I'm watching now liquids, gels and patches. started to shrink pretty Soak the wart for 10 to 15 quickly on its own. Maybe minutes, file away the it knew what was coming. dead warty skin with an Dr. Komaroff is a emery board or pumice stone, and apply the sali- physician and professor at cylic acid. Do this once or Harvard Medical School. twice a day for 12 weeks. To send questions, go to — Duct tape. This low- AskDoctorK.com, or write: risk, low-tech approach Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck may sound suspect, but St., Second Floor, Boston, it's worth a try. Wear a MA 02115. Free concert tonight in LM Art and Wanda Peace will in concert at Mill Creek Baptist Church at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13. Art and Wanda have shared their music across America including such venues as Branson, MO and TBN. They have an easy listening country-rock style of gospel music that will encourage your heart. Mill Creek Baptist Church is on the corner of 99E and Taft Street just north of Los Molinos. Woman wants best of both men in her life at an upcoming family Dear Annie: I have been reunion. After all these married for more than 20 years, I finally wrote him a years and have never been letter. He will never read it. sexually attracted to my When he dies, I want to husband. He is a good place it in his casket. I hope provider, but there is no you will let me share my passion, no excitement, thoughts: nothing. I have tried everyDear Uncle: I have a few thing I can think of to make sex better, but he acts as if Annie's things that I've waited a long time to tell you. Now it's part of my wifely that you are dead, I am finalduties, which makes me by Kathy Mitchell ly happy. I am happy you are sick. I don't want to break up and Marcy Sugar burning in hell. God has given me justice. While othour home, but I'm in love with a passionate man who just ers are mourning your death, I am rocks my world. He kisses me, and celebrating. I will never forgive you I forget my name. Our affair has for what you did. You stole my lasted four years. Why can't I keep childhood from the moment you laid hands on me when I was a 12them both? — Torn in Tulsa Dear Torn: It seems you've year-old child. Your own niece. When I was a child, I used to been doing exactly that for four years, but obviously, it's not think you were a great uncle. I trustenough. Please stop living a dual ed you, respected you, looked up to life and figure out what you want. If you, loved you the way a niece there are young children, you owe it should. And when you betrayed me, to them to work on your marriage. I was shattered, and I never looked Get into joint counseling so your at you the same way. I have waited a long time for husband can work on his Neanderthal attitude toward women and your death so that I could go to your so you can see whether passion can funeral and watch you being lowbe ignited. If you believe sex is the ered into your grave. You are a total most important aspect of a mar- disgrace. You are nothing to me. riage, divorce your husband so you God never should have created you. can be with Rocks Your World. But You had no purpose in life other having it both ways isn't working, than to hurt children. You are and you'll feel better when you deal pathetic. Now that you are dead, I can finally be at peace knowing that with this more honestly. Dear Annie: I was sexually you will never again hurt a child. — abused by an uncle when I was 12. Still Suffering Dear Still: Thank you for comI am now 35 and expect to see him Mailbox posing a letter that obviously came from a very wounded place. Please don't wait until your uncle is dead to warn your other relatives and report him to the authorities. Your courage to speak up could protect other children who come into contact with this predator. And for you and anyone else who has suffered through abuse, please contact RAINN (rainn.org) at 1-800-656HOPE for support, encouragement and help. Dear Annie: You printed a letter from ''Humiliated Wife,'' who said her husband seems to be overly interested in a classmate from his 50th high school reunion. You said her husband is in his ''late 70s.'' Your math is seriously off. My 50th high school reunion is this year, and I'm 67. There's no way he would be older unless he was held back a few years. — I Can Add Dear Add: You are right that we could use a remedial math class. But the advice stands. If the man suddenly ogles every woman and can't keep his hands off the waitresses, he needs to see his doctor. Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailboxcomcast.net, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. Put your freezer to work Whether you have a stand-alone unit or yours is part of your refrigerator, your freezer is either costing a lot in wasted energy or is saving you a bundle in food costs. It has a lot to do with the style of freezer you have, the way you stock it and how you maintain it. Use a thermometer. Get a refrigerator/freezer thermometer to check the temperature. The closer to 0 F, the better. Food kept at 0 F will last months longer than say 20 or 31 F. Remove the air. Trapped air causes freezer burn. Make sure you select a container small enough so the contents fill it. You can remove a great deal of the air from a freezer bag without a fancy vacuum sealing machine. Seal all but enough space to slip in a drinking straw. Now inhale on that straw to pull all the air out of the bag. Quickly zip the last bit and pop it into the freezer. Opt for a chest style freezer. If you're in the market for a freezer, opt for a chest type freezer with a manual defrost. Unlike an upright model where the contents get hit with a blast of warm air every time you open it, a chest freezer, because of its design, keeps the cold in when opened. Remember science class? Cook for a day, eat for a month. Heat rises, but cold falls. Defrost it once a year when you clean it It's an intense proposition, but if out and you'll be good to go. you are willing to work very hard A chest style freezer would just one day each month, you can be an excellent investment make all of your dinner meals for an entire month -- and for anyone lookfreeze them. Before you ing to keep the dismiss this as impossible, cost of food at a take a look at the method, minimum. recipes and instructions in Fill 'er up. It takes a Once-A-Month Cooking: lot more electricity to A Proven System for keep an empty freezer at Spending Less Time in the 0 F than a full one. So Kitchen and Enjoying pack it as tightly as you Delicious, Homemade can. If you don't have Meals Every Day, by enough food to do that, Mary Beth Lagerborg and fill empty milk cartons Mary Mimi Wilson. They with water and freeze invented this process and them. The square shape coined the term more than is better than round jugs 25 years ago. It's as terrifbecause you can stack ic today as it was then, but them like bricks. Bonus: now with so many more You'll have plenty of recipes, options and fresh water in the event instructions. of a power outage. Inventory. The worst thing for Would you like to send a tip to your electricity bill is to keep opening the freezer, especially if you Mary? You can email her at have an upright model that allows mary@everydaycheapskate.com, or the entire contents to get hit with a write to Everyday Cheapskate, P.O. blast of warm air every time you Box 2099, Cypress, CA 90630. open it. Post an inventory list on the Include your first and last name and door. As you use something, mark it state. Mary Hunt is the founder of and off. Now you can "shop" the list, www.DebtProofLiving.com not stand there with the door open. author of 23 books. Hunt Everyday Cheapskate Input sought for Motor Vehicle Use Maps YREKA – The Klamath National Forest is soliciting comments on improving its Motor Vehicle Use Map (MVUM) as part of the annual MVUM review cycle. "The KNF maps became available in early January this year," said Forest Supervisor Patty Grantham. "Our emphasis in 2013 has been to get the word out on the availability of the maps showing where motorized uses, and types of uses, can occur. As part of our continuing Motorized Travel Management process, we will review the maps annually and consider needed changes. Public comment is very important to identify suggested changes." Comments have been collected since implementation of the maps. Since the update is an on-going, annual process, there is no deadline to submit comments. Comments received prior to Dec. 15, will be most helpful in considering changes to include in the 2014 maps. "I am interested in receiving any and all comments regarding our maps," said Grantham. "I am sure folks who've used the maps these past nine months have found errors on them, and we want to clean those up. In talking to various groups and individuals since the maps came out, I also know there are ideas on routes that should be added or changed and also on routes that should be deleted. We want to hear about those ideas." Comments may be submitted in a variety of ways. You may leave a message with your comment on the Travel Management Information Line at 530-841-4597. Hard copy comment forms are available at all Klamath National Forest offices and also on the web at http://www.fs.usda.gov/I nternet/FSE_DOCUM E N T S / s t e l prdb5423782.pdf. You may also submit your comments directly into the travel management comment database by going to https://cara.ecosystemmanagement.org/Public/CommentInput?project=42227. Individual letters or emails are also welcome and may be submitted to the Klamath National Forest, 1711 S. Main St., Yreka, CA 96097 Attn: Motorized Travel Management Update, or to klamathinfo@fs.fed.us. Oh Snap! The Daily News wants your photos: Cute kids, Adorable pets, Inspirational sights, Any shot you think readers would enjoy You might just see it in the Daily News Send pictures to editor@redbluffdailynews.com or drop off at 545 Diamond Ave. in Red Bluff. Include a caption.