Thursday, January 27, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Cold season leaves students feeling sore
By Warisa Chulindra
By Warisa Chulindra
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
When the cold and cough season arrives, sore throats are likely to follow.
Although sore throats are common all year, they hit the hardest during cold and cough season, said Randall Rock, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Lynn Quiring, pharmacist at the Medicine Shoppe, 1807 Massachusetts St., said that people always had sore throats in the winter and that he didn't think more people were infected than usual this year.
Jesse Siao, Andover sophomore, had a sore throat last week.
"There's always a point when it's really bad and that was two weeks ago," he said. "People continue to get exposed and battle it."
"I've had some really bad sore throats before," he said. "But I'm not usually too alarmed and let it pass. They're just a nuisance, and they can get in the way of school and work."
A sore throat can be a symptom of the common cold, influenza or strep throat.
Although most sore throats will go away without treatment, Rock said, if the condition is strep throat, it's possible rheumatic fever or rheumatic heart valves may develop.
SORE THROATS
Suggestions to soothe sore throats
Suggestions to soothe sore throats Randall Rock, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, recommends that students with sore throats:
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Drink plenty of fluids, especially warm
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Suck on hard candy
- Take a steamy shower in the morning or in the evening to moisturize airways
- Inhale humidity
Fever, nausea, bad headaches and partially swollen tonsils are symptoms of strep throat, he said. People with these symptoms should see a doctor.
Rock said two tests could be run to determine whether someone had strep throat. A rapid strep test takes 15 to 20 minutes for results. The other test is a culture, which involves taking a sample of a person's tissue and watching it overnight to see what bacteria develops.
"It's important that if you have strep throat to get it identified and treated," Rock said.
He said that because strep throat was sensitive to antibiotics, it usually took three to four days for the medication to work. The common prescription is for 10 days. Rock said that if people stopped using the medication early, resistance might not fully develop.
Gender-bias claim filed against Regents
By Doug Pacey
writer@kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
The Board of Regents knows that Debra Bonewitz has filed a complaint against it, but the complaint has yet to be received.
"Essentially, Debra was given a position that did not require her to be the LAN net administrator and she was not compensated for it." Randles said. LAN stands for local area network.
Mary Prewitt, associate general Regents counsel, said the Regents received notice from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that a complaint was filed. However, because the complaint is not yet complete, she said, a response was not required.
Bonewitz' attorney, Rebecca Randles, filed a gender-bias complaint with the EEOC against the Regents for Bonewitz near the end of last year.
Bonewitz' position was as a research associate for the Regents.
Randles would not say what Bonewitz was seeking from the Regents.
Randles said that Bonewitz was working again but could not remember where she was employed.
"This complaint is identical to the other two women's complaints," Randles said.
The other two women are Christine Crenshaw and Barb Conant. Crenshaw has filed a formal complaint, but Conant is just considering it, Prewitt said.
Conant was the Regents communication director when she left her job in October.
Crenshaw's attorney, Kirk Lowery, said that they were in the mediating process with the Regents and could not comment on the proceedings.
Crenshaw is now the director of financial aid at Kansas State University.
Crenshaw, former associate director of fiscal affairs for the Regents, filed a gender-bias complaint against the Regents in June with the Kansas Human Rights Commission.
After her departure, her position was combined with another and the pay increased.
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