Thursday, April 19, 1979
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University Daily Kansan
Ulcers demand changes in habits
By BRENDA WATSON
Staff Reporter
Whenever Gloria Slice, Cherryvale sophomore, has a big test up, there's a burning pain in the pit of her neck.
states.
"I know it's there," she said. "I feel that twinge."
"I know it is strike," Stace has said. "You infect—a disease that attacks 10 percent of all adults sometime during their lives."
of Antarctica to the ocean. It is a sore eaten by stomach acid into the lining of the stomach or duodenum, which is about the first stomach meal.
According to Martin Wollmann, physician and director of Wakelin Memorial Hospital, a persistent burner in the pit caused by stabbing the hand is a common cause.
wolfram was then after an ulcer was diagnosed, usually by X-rays, then it was treated with dietary controls, and later with antibiotics.
"A PATIENT should combine several treatments to avoid an extreme in any one of them," he said.
Dietary controls include restricting foods that tend to aggravate the aruge, such as coffee, alcohol, spicy foods, carbonated beverages and fried foods, while eating foods that tend to absorb stomach acid, most notably dairy
Medication includes a variety of antacids, including cinnetine, the newest and most promising in terms of safety and effectiveness.
Surrey also is used to treat acuties, but only rarely. The problem is diagnosis
Surgery labels use letters, usually a little problem in diagnosing or treating ulcers, Wolmuml said that physicians could not
with UCERS we get into that uncertain area of psychosomatic illnesses, the interplay between emotional and physical health.
pimpin their cause to stress or pressure and, in fact, could not pimpin their cause at all.
"We just don't know what causes ulcers, and I am not quite convinced that pressure is the cause."
Wollmann experimented that one in every 1,000 KU students was treated at Watkins specifically for an ulcer. He also said that about one out of every 100 students hospitalized there had an ulcer. Watkins hospitals about 700 students
Wollmann said that although it could not be proved that pressure causes ulcers, it definitely aggravates them.
Slice said she has had firsthand experience with that. She learned she had an ulcer while she was still in high school, and although it was nearly healed by the end of her senior year, it was from time to time. When it does, Slices know how to handle it.
"I JUST start eating really carefully again, especially during finals," she said.
"I have to eat five times a day," she said. "In high school, I must find a place to feed and, here at KU1, I must have a place for me."
Stice said that life with an ulcer meant a lot of inconveniences.
"Eating out is practically impossible. You can't have spice or fried foods, no starches or vegetables that have a shell, like corn or peas. All your meat has to be broiled or grilled." You're supposed you were supposed to use is a very limited amount of salt."
After strictly following the regimen for nine months to heal her ulcer, Stice obviously knows it well. Even though her job at Tac Bell makes it more difficult, Stice still watches what she eats.
"The thing that really bugged me was no fried foods," she said.
STICE SAID she especially liked fried chicken, which she now bakes instead.
having an ear also requires more sleep, according to Stice. She said the amount depended on how bad you felt.
Sliced said that she was not surprised when she found out that she had an ulcer because other members of her family were sick.
Wollemain that there does seem to be a "familiarity" or tendency for ulcers to run in families.
"Your chances of getting an ulcer are greater if someone else in your family has one," he said.
Wollmann also said that there was a greater chance for
nervous with true O blood to get ulcers.
"We have no idea why," he said. "The statistics just show it."
Another interesting statistic, according to Wallmann, is the recurrence rate for ulcers is significantly higher than that of cholecystitis.
Wollmann said that even though there were no good answers and that people would have to live with that, they felt that it was better.
"The student rate is not excessively high," he said. "Ulcers are almost always curable. They can be easily diagnosed and usually treated quite innocuously. The outcome is most optimistic."
College pressures often hard to bear
Much of the pressure in a student's life is caused by the taxing demand of adjusting to a variety of standards, expectations and relationships, according to Jim Lichtenberg, counselor at the KU counseling center.
However, Lichtenberg also said that most pressure is generated internally as opposed to being caused by external factors.
"There are a lot of assignments, a lot of exams and each makes a different demand on a student," he said.
"We create a lot of stress for ourselves because of the way we think about things and the importance we place on them," he said.
"SETTING STANDARDS is terribly important, but sometimes they are unrealistic," he said.
Many of the center's cases are students referred by the Student Assistance Center. They do not have learning difficulties but Lichtenberg calls "test anxiety."
"THEY FREEZE up on an exam," he
said. "It's not that they don't know it. It's just that they can't get it out. Then after they get out of the stress situation, it all comes back to them."
"They wonder if their college education will be worth anything. They're concerned about whether they'll get a job," he said.
The first step in learning to handle stress better, according to Lichtenberg, is to identify the problem.
"YOU HAVE to ask yourself 'what times do I feel that clutching panic?' "he said.
The next step for the person is to determine what he is thinking about at the time, what he believes, what he values and what is important to him.
Third, learn to think more rationally and learn to relax, Lichtenberg said.
and learn to relax, Lichtenberg said.
He also said that people could be taught how to relay.
"It might take a half hour the first time," he said.
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