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Show Page 32—-THE HERALD. Provo. Utah,, Thursday, January 24, 1980 Dr. LawrenceLamb. 4 Relief of Headache Pain Discussed q LAMB — I hope you can help me. I'm 53 years of age and geta lot of headaches. | take Excedrin and it does somewhat. However, I'm hesitant about taking the pills because of the acetaminophen which it contains. Sometime ago | read a newspaper article about the dangers of pills containing acetaminophen. Would you please enlighten me on the use oftaking Excedrin? DEAR READER — Excedrin contains aspirin, salicylamide and acetaminophen. Actually, each Excedrin contains only about 97 milligrams of U.S. Budget Plan Printed James Mcintyre, director of by President jimmy Enact the first press run of the lengthy docu- ment. With McIntyre is Public rinter John Boyle, center. Carter is scheduled to deliver his 1981 budget to Congress on Monday morning. acetaminophen. You need to take three to six times that much for it to have any appreciable effect. It follows that main most important ingredient in Excedrin is aspirin as far as relieving headaches or mild pains is concerned. Unless you happen to have some unusualreaction or are on some other medication, the amount of acetaminophen in an Excedrin tablet is so small that it would not be possibleforit to cause you any vane People do have toxic effects from butthat’s in very large doses taken or a period of time. However,if you're worried about acetaminophen in the Excedrin, you mnie ist take aspirin, and if you wantto get a little tional help, you might drink a cup of coffee at the sametime. The standard Excedrin tablet also contains about. 65 milligrams of caffeine. If you read my columnregularly, you know that I'm nota big fanof coffee or caffeine. However,it is a drug and as such has medicinal purposes for some occasions. In some instances it does help to relieve headachesif it is taken at the onset of the headache in some people. If headaches are associated with anxiety and tension, however, drinking too much coffee may result in too much caffeine stimulation, which can make the situation worse. There are a wide variety of that you can use for relief of pain or mild headaches. Many of these depend principally upon aspiring for their effect. Therefore, I’m sendin; e Health Letter number 8-8, Aspirin ant Related Medicines. Other readers who wantthis issue can send 75 cents with a long, stamped,self-addressed envelope for it. san our request to me, in care of this neweste .O. Box 1551, Radio Ciiy Station, New ork, NY 10019. This issue will tell you what the effects of these medicines are, such as acetaminophen that you asked about. There's a table that will give you the contents of many of the common pain relieving “quick fix,” she sai Mrs. Norwood said, however, that along with the index of retail prices each month, the bureau from now on. will publish five experimental sets of figures which measure prices in different wa! The first set of experimental numbers was released Monday. While the familiar eae. itionc 12.6 percent mont ending last November, the others all show slightly lower figures, ranging down to 10.5 percent. “Wewill continueto haveoneofficial CPI,” Mrs. Norwood told a news conference. Shesaid the purpose ofpublishing experimental to encourage M DEAR DR. LAMB — Would youplease mention the hazards of s:noking cigarettes for all people with digesti'es T used to be in agony with cramps and the other symptoms. An upper and lower X ray of my digestive system proved nothing was but something was. Mytrouble disappeared shortly after I smoked mylast Ru News “Utah Craftt DEAR READER — You're onlyone of thousands who've had such an experience. Manypeople with burning pain in the pit of the stomach, cramps of the stomach and intestinal area are surprised to find that their symptomsare greatly decreased or even disappear when they change someoftheir bad habits. This applies to cigarette smoking and drinking coffee, tea, colas and even hot chocolate > of Orem proudly Announces Beginning Tole LESSONS Beginning ClassesStart THURS.FEB. 14th 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. \FIVE WEEKS OF STORg SPECIAL CLASS DISCOUNT ON MATERIALS $25 Call...226- 1378 for reservation* (*5.00 deposit required to hold yourplace) *It's easy anyone ca in learn to tole paint * INSTRUCTOR: 7 Roberts Other classes and special work: jops to be announced 214 E. 1200 S., Orem Parkway Plaza (West of G.C.) EL public discussion about the issues involved in trying to measurethe nation’s inflation rate. A quarterof the American public has its income in some way linked to the monthly price index. This includes 9 million workers with cost-of-living escalator clauses and 34 million Social Security recipients. Forty percent of federal spending is “indexed,” or tied to changes in the bureau’s price index. Critics, whose voices have become louder during recent high inflation, have raised two main arguments: One is that the index is based on spending habits of Americans in 197273, since it measures price changesin a fixed ‘market basket’’ of goods. Mrs. Norwood said that is exactly whatit should measure — if the index were adjusted for changes in buying habits (such as using less gasoline) it no longer would measure the changing price of a given standard ofliving. Another objection, most strongly voiced by President Carter's inflation adviser Alfred Kahn,is that in periods like the present the index exaggerates the actual cost of housing for many Americans. cigarette ‘ ae ConsumerPrice Index Not Perfect But It'll Continue WASHINGTON (UPI) — The keeper of the Consumer Price Index, which affects the paychecks of millions of Americans and the spendingofbillions of dollars, conceded Monday the statistical finding ii s ‘not perfect.” But Janet Norwood, head of the Bureauof Labor Statistics, said it still is “the best measure of purchasing power we have.” Her agency will continue the index =not attempt any peeceiet that you can buy without a prescrip- —— DAILY 9-10, SUNDAY 10-6 SALE ENDS SUN. JANUARY 27th CREW SOCKS Comfortable crew socksfor Orion fl ls DIET ICED TEAMIX mee Natural lemon flavor Salada Diet Iced Tea mix. 1.4 calories per fluid ounce! 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