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When Medicines Fail to Quell Heartburn

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am 25. I have a serious case of GERD. I’ve been put on four different medi-cines. They aren’t working.

I also have palpitations through-out the day. I’ve been told by doc-tors and nurses that there is noth-ing dangerous about them. I’d like to know if this true. — J.C.

ANSWER: GERD — gastroesoph-ageal reflux disorder — is heartburn. It’s the upward spurting of stomach acid and digestive juices into the esophagus, the swallowing tube, a place that is not able to cope with these corrosive juices the way the stomach is.

Eliminate or go easy on foods that make GERD worse: citrus fruits; tomatoes; onions; carbonated drinks; spicy, fatty or fried foods; chocolate; peppermint; and caffeine. If you’re overweight, weight loss lessens GERD symptoms. Don’t lie down after eating. Don’t smoke. Sleep with your head, chest and stomach on a slope by putting 6-inch blocks under the bedposts at the head of your bed. That position keeps stomach acid in the stomach. Don’t wear anything that constricts your stomach, like tight pants or tight belts.

Medicines called “proton pump inhibitors” nearly completely turn off acid production. Nexium, Prevacid, Prilosec, Protonix, Aciphex and Dex-ilant are their names. If you still have heartburn while on these medicines, it’s OK to use an antacid along with them.

If medicines fail, other causes of heartburn need consideration, things like bile reflux or eosinophilic esoph-agitis. If these conditions aren’t found,

then surgical treatment of GERD is anoption that’s open to you.

Palpitations mean a thumping orracing heart. They can be felt as a thudin the chest. The cause is an extra beat— or more correctly, a premature beat— one that comes before it should.The beat after a premature beat isdelayed. During the delay, the heartfills with more blood than usual, andthat causes a thump in the chest whenthe heart empties. Premature beats arealmost always innocent and need notreatment. You can believe your doc-tors and nurses.

The booklet on GERD explains thiscommon malady and its treatment. Toorder a copy, write: Dr. Donohue —No. 501W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL32853-6475. Enclose a check or mon-ey order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6Canada with the recipient’s printedname and address. Please allow fourweeks for delivery.

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Can you give me insight into the Hamman-Rich syndrome? My father passed away from it. — L.R.

ANSWER: I can tell you only alittle, because only a little is knownabout it. It’s a lung injury that comeson suddenly, with damage to the lungair sacs (the alveoli) and the spacesbetween the air sacs, the interstitium.The cause is unknown. Because ofsuch destruction, oxygen cannot getinto the blood. Patients are severelyshort of breath, have a fever and theycough. The only medicines are onesto keep the person going as best aspossible. There is no cure medicine.Even with a ventilator, death hap-pens to more than 60 percent of thesepatients.

It’s an illness that reminds doctorsthat they don’t have an answer forevery malady. You and your familyhave my condolences.

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Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.

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Putting the Kibosh on Nuisance Barking

DEAR PAW’S CORNER: What is the best way to get my 6-month-old dog, “Kit,” to quit nuisance barking, and does Bark Off really work? — Phillip M., via email

DEAR PHILLIP: The best way to address nuisance barking is through daily, attentive training methods. Whether you spring for an ultrasonic “anti-barking” device or something else, the key to reducing or stopping Kit’s barking is spending time with him, teaching him not to bark inces-santly.

The most common training method to stop unwanted barking is to dis-tract the dog with a noise, a hiss or a sharp “no!” Or, in the case of the device mentioned, an “ultrasonic” noise that does the same thing. No matter how much money you spend or don’t spend, that’s really the key technique.

But there’s more to it. When I say “distract,” that doesn’t mean just hissing, shaking a can of pennies or pressing an ultrasonic control button from your cozy spot on the couch. I mean, distract immediately, then get up and go to Kit and have him sit and stay for a minute. When he does that, give him lots of praise. Then — and this may sound revolutionary — spend more time with him, train-ing or playing. Just pressing a button and ignoring your dog won’t solve the problem. The button you should press when Kit’s barking is the pause button on your DVR.

Kit, at 6 months, is going through a bit of a change, heading into puppy puberty. He’s energetic and pushing the envelope. So be firm and consis-tent with his obedience training, play with him to work off that energy, and set a daily schedule for him — feed-ing, walks, training, play, sleep — and stick to it. It will take a few weeks to reduce his barking this way, but it’s worth it.

Send your pet questions and tips to [email protected], or write to Paw’s Corner, c/o King Features Week-ly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Find more pet advice and resources at www.pawscorner.com.

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1. ANATOMY: Where in the human body is the mandible?

2. MYTHOLOGY: According to Greek mythology, who ferries the souls of the dead across the rivers Styx and Acheron?

3. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: By what common name is the pirate’s flag of skull and crossbones known?

4. ENTERTAINERS: Which actress was born with the name Betty Joan Perske?

5. MEASUREMENTS: What does a tachometer measure?

6. HISTORY: What was the first year of the winter Olympic Games?

7. GEOGRAPHY: Where is Valley Forge, site of George Washington’s encampment during the Revolution-ary War?

8. ASTRONOMY: Europa is a moon of which planet?

9. LITERATURE: Who wrote “The Tropic of Cancer”?

10. LANGUAGE: In poetic terms, what is a “tarn”?

Answers1. Lower jaw2. Charon 3. Jolly Roger4. Lauren Bacall5. Speed in rotations per minute6. 1924 7. Pennsylvania 8. Jupiter 9. Henry Miller10. Mountain lake


• “During the winter, I keep a spray bottle around that’s filled with a dilu-tion of fabric softener. Not only do a few spritzes on the furniture and car-pet make the house smell nice, it also gives some much-needed humidity to the air.” — D.K. in Wyoming

• “This is a big hit at our house for dinner: Make meatloaf in a muffin tin and then use whipped potatoes to ‘frost’ the ‘cupcakes.’ We also deco-rate the tops with peas or corn kernels for a fun dinner that we then eat up!” — B.B. in California

• Restrict your salt at the saltshaker. Seal up a few holes with clear nail polish.

• “If you like to reuse margarine tubs or similar containers for storing food or even crafts, use a bit of nail polish remover to clean off the letter-ing on the outside of the tub. It comes right off and doesn’t appear to affect the plastic.” — A.L. in Delaware

• When placing dough in a bowl to rise, try spraying it with cooking spray. It’s less messy than spreading oil around with your fingers.

• Slip a knee-high stocking over the mouth of your vacuum-cleaner hose and use it to dust your bookshelves or around knick-knacks. Nothing will get sucked up but dust.

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2 lemons 2 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper 4 (6 ounces each) tilapia fillets 1/4 cup sliced natural almonds 1 small onion, chopped 1 bag (12-ounce) trimmed fresh green beans 1 package (10-ounce) sliced white mushrooms 2 tablespoons water

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. From 1 lemon, grate 1 teaspoon peel and squeeze 3 tablespoons juice; cut second lemon into wedges. In cup, mix lemon peel and 1 tablespoon juice, 1 tablespoon oil, 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper.

2. Spray 13-by-9-inch glass bak-ing dish with nonstick spray; place tilapia, dark side down, in dish. Drizzle tilapia with lemon mixture; top with almonds, pressing them on. Bake 15 minutes or until tilapia turns opaque.

3. Meanwhile, in 12-inch skillet, heat remaining 1 tablespoon oil on medium-high 1 minute. Add onion and cook 5 to 6 minutes or until golden, stirring occasionally. Stir in green beans, mushrooms, water, 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper. Cook about 6 minutes or until most of liq-uid evaporates and green beans are tender-crisp. Toss with remaining 2 tablespoons lemon juice. Serve bean mixture and lemon wedges with tila-pia. Makes 4 main-dish servings.

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1. Name the female singer who released “The Way We Were.”

2. Which one-hit-wonder group recorded “Nobody But Me” in 1968?

3. What was the original name of the group B.T. Express? Name its 1974 hit.

4. Which group was Peter Cetera in before going out on his own?

5. Name the singer who released “Undercover Angel.”

6. Who was the original drummer for the Eagles? What year did he start?

Answers1. Barbra Streisand. The song was

on the soundtrack of the 1973 film by the same name and won multiple awards.

2. The Human Beinz.3. Brooklyn Trucking Express. “Do

It (‘Til You’re Satisfied)” rose to No. 2 on the Billboard charts and No. 1 on R&B.

4. Chicago. His first solo, “Glory of Love,” was the theme song to the film “Karate Kid Part 2” in 1986.

5. Alan O’Day, in 1977. While he’s not especially well-known for his singing, he’s written a wealth of mate-rial for other artists, as well as Nation-al Geographic and “Jim Henson’s Muppet Babies.”

6. Don Henley started when the band formed in 1971 and stayed until 1980, when the band broke up. He came back when they regrouped in 1994.


• It was American radio and TV writer and commentator Andy Rooney who made the following sage observation: “Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.”

• The iconic 1980s video games Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man had 256 levels, though it’s been reported that on both of them, the 256th level has bugs that make it unplayable.

• The earliest known examples of drinking straws were created out of gold and lapis lazuli by the ancient Sumerians. It seems they were used by royalty to drink beer, thereby avoiding the yeast residue left over from the fermentation process.

• It takes 450 skilled workers to cre-ate a Steinway grand piano — and the piano is made up of about 12,000 individual parts.

• If you are like 83 percent of adult Americans, you received a gift you didn’t want during the recent holiday season.

• If you’re a heavy coffee drinker, you might want to consider the fol-lowing: A study conducted in the United Kingdom found that those who reported the highest consump-tion of caffeine also were more likely to report hallucinations and other extrasensory experiences.

• The Campbell’s Soup portraits created by Andy Warhol have become icons of the Pop Art movement, and today they sell at auction for upward of $10 million. They weren’t always so well-regarded, however; in 1962, actor Dennis Hopper (a visionary art collector, it seems) purchased one of the first examples for a mere $75.

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Thought for the Day: “I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that con-ventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.” — Charles Dickens


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• On Jan. 13, 1128, Pope Honorius II grants a papal sanction to the military order known as the Knights Templar, declaring it to be an army of God. The Knights Templar mission was to pro-tect Christian pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land during the Crusades, the series of military expeditions aimed at defeating Muslims in Palestine.

• On Jan. 11, 1908, President Theo-dore Roosevelt designates the mighty Grand Canyon a national monument. Congress increased the protection of the canyon in 1932 by making it a national park, ensuring that private development would never despoil the Grand Canyon.

• On Jan. 12, 1926, the two-man comedy series “Sam ‘n’ Henry” debuts on Chicago’s WGN radio station. Two years later, after changing its name to “Amos ‘n’ Andy,” the show became one of the most popular radio pro-grams in American history.

• On Jan. 16, 1938, “King of Swing” jazz great Benny Goodman brings his revolutionary music to Carnegie Hall for the first time. The concert sold out weeks in advance, with the best seats fetching $2.75. All recordings of the show were presumed lost until Good-man’s sister-in-law came across a set of acetates in 1950.

• On Jan. 14, 1943, Franklin Roos-evelt becomes the first president to travel on official business by airplane. Crossing the Atlantic by air, Roos-evelt flew in a Boeing 314 Flying Boat dubbed the Dixie Clipper to a World War II strategy meeting with Win-ston Churchill at Casablanca in North Africa.

• On Jan. 10, 1967, President Lyn-don Johnson, in his annual State of the Union message to Congress, asks for enactment of a 6 percent surcharge on personal and corporate income taxes to help support the Vietnam War for two years, or “for as long as the unusu-al expenditures associated with our efforts continue.”

• On Jan. 15, 1972, “American Pie,” Don McLean’s epic poem in musical form that has long been etched in the American popular consciousness, hits No. 1 on the Billboard charts. When asked to explain what exactly he was trying to say with some of his more ambiguous lyrics, McLean has gener-ally declined.


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Differences in Care

What’s amazed me from Day One are the big differences in levels of care from one part of the country to another. I’ve got veterans writing (or telling me in person) that their medi-cal care is outstanding, that appoint-ments made in advance are kept, that they get a heads-up call to make sure they’ve remembered the appoint-ment, and that they’re extremely satisfied with the care they’re get-ting from the Department of Veterans Affairs on all levels.

On the flip side of the coin are vet-erans who write me describing a nightmare list of problems in getting the care they need.

The list of possible reasons for the variations is long. Here are a few that come to mind:

Problems at the top: When depart-ments are run by people who are slip-shod, who try to hide mistakes, and who are in some way taking advan-tage of the system, the people down the ranks see it and act accordingly.

Other departments: If there is spill-over from one department to the next in terms of duties or chain of com-mand, there can be problems if the first department isn’t doing what it’s supposed to — like dominos falling.

Regional differences in staff: I hate to say it, but I think this one is a big-gie. There really does seem to be a difference in how veterans are treated across the country, not only in terms of accuracy and diligence in handling their medical affairs, but in plain everyday politeness. It’s as though some areas of the country forget that it’s the veterans they’re to serve, not the other way around.

It’s too bad that VA employees can’t be shuffled around by the hundreds to see how other facilities operate. After all, excellence breeds excellence, right?

Write to Freddy Groves in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to [email protected].


1. Is the Book of Cornelius in theOld or New Testament or neither?

2. Whose first chapter begins, “God,who at sundry times and in diversmanners spake in time”? Mark, Gala-tians, Hebrews, Jude

3. What were Gihon, Pison, Tigrisand Euphrates, as connected with theGarden of Eden? Cities, Kings, Riv-ers, Caves

4. From 1 Kings, who is given creditfor writing 1,005 songs? Jacob, Solo-mon, Philip, David

5. In Acts 13, where were Paul andBarnabas deserted by Mark? Jericho, Perga, Athens, Damascus

6. From Revelation 2, what city wassaid by John to have “Satan’s seat”?Pergamos, Miletus, Patara, Sodom

ANSWERS: 1) Neither; 2) Hebrews;3) Rivers; 4) Solomon; 5) Perga; 6)Pergamos

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