PAGE 64, THE HERALD, Wednesday, Oclober 16, 1974 i |

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By Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D.

DEAR DR. LAMB — I have
a permissive 17-year-old
daughter who is taking the
birth control pill. I am sick
abaut this, but can do nothing
about il as she did not go to
our family doctor. .

_ Twould like to know what

otassium. nitrate will do to

er health if used in her diet.

: My. druggist. tells. me.to be

t 1 very. cautious. [am told it

im i reduces ‘secretion.. Can it

“ ; harm, her ‘otherwise? — Also,

what: quantity should be
i used?

DEAR READER — You'd

Q better forget about that idea.
a : There are a fot of ald stories
Ff aboul the: use of potassium
nitrate,.also known as

sallpeter, in decreasing sex

Y drive. Usually these

. Fidiculous stories are about
- its use for boys or men. Ii has
- no-elfect al-all on the sex

drive ‘or sexual functions in
~- either mates or females.

IUs a little late to do much
about a person's behavior. at
age.17..The concept of behav-
ior:is usually established

much: earlier in: life and. is -

a : based-on what the parents

-think and, most. importantly,
do, plus whal associates think

~ and do. It’s common to blame
: , arents for the children's be-
Looe avior, but that is not Fair.
; *. Phe influence of the saciety,

Including playmates, ideas

spread by literature, TV and

“ movies are all important fae-

. .lors in shaping ‘attitudes,

- After all, the “attitudes and

7 : _-y. behavior of:whale nations

: * gan:be influenced by using
these toals for propaganda. A-

*" parent doesn't haye a chance

BA ate

Hl “fluences.” lo .
f : What should. parents do in
A . = your situation?: Certainly the
hoe . oanswer is not slipping
£ . Medicines into the children’s
<“food. You‘ can't force your
~-jdeas of morality on them.
- You have -to be open and
honest with them. That
“means discussing. your view-
points.. Discussing does not
~ mean nagging, or scolding,
that is unlikely to accomplish
“anything except to destroy
‘any chance you might have
“had to provide helpful infor-
mation within the framewark

. Of.a discussion,

wr

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itled “against these in-.

didn't work, that the test still

Dr. Lamb _ SSIES SIEEEEEEEEEEanEeremmesaes
The anti-sex salt _

You don't have to approve
of her behavior. You do need
to -accept. her as a person,

even if her values are dif- °

ferent than yours. A. wise
parent learns lo gently dis-
cuss the different advantages
and disadvantages, then
allows the young adull in the
family to mature by using his
or her own best jitdgment.

Also, parents need to be.

around to pick up the pieces
when young people make
mistakes, and they will. That,
too, requires'a delicate bal-
ance. You can't run to the
rescue every time things
don't turn out right. Learning
tosolve your own problems is
also part of maturing and
parents must. give their

cchildren an opportunity todo

this as parlo
process, .

It is unlikely that the pill
has anything to do with your
daughter's life style: When
people are inclined to have
sex they usually do, with or
without adequate methods to
prevent pregnancy. Many
surveys show. girls often use
ne protection or-one of the
least effective methods, any-

their maturing

way.

- Being a parent and coping
with these varied problems
ism easy. Perhaps it was
simpler when social rules

were more rigid, but that too ©

created its problems by
ereating severe neurosis
from guilt and resulting in
widespread ignorance ‘about
the more fundamental
aspects of male-female rela-
tions, or even the individual's

own bedy. Coping with the

dulies of a parent is a lot
more complicated than siip-
ping a little saltpeter into the
ood,

DEAR DR. LAMB —
Almost 13 years aga my hus-
band had a vasectomy. It was
the first one-the doctor had
performed. He told us to use
some other means of birth
control for six weeks, and he
didn't tell my husband to

‘come back for a sperm test,

Three months after the

operation | was pregnant.
The doctor then asked my
husband to come in for a
sperm test. After the test he
told us thal the operation

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and Betty Taylor
about Westwood

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f

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showed millions of live.
sperm. oe

“Since then we ‘have read

several articles aboul vasec-

tomies, some of-them said

that it has taken up to a year

for. some af them to work. We

had talked about having this

checked again, but just never

Recently he had to see a .
urologist; and he suggested

my husband have another

‘sperm test, because he said

that a lot of times it took from ©
three to four months for a

vasectomy to work.

The next morning my hus-
band took a semen specimen
to the lab, the specimen was
less than ‘an. hour old. The
results were an occasional
dead sperm. The urologist
said as-far as he was con-
cerned the vasectomy
worked, but he couldn't. ex-
plain why there was sperm at
all after so many years. I.
thought that a vasectomy cut
the tubes (his tubes were cut
and tied) that let the sperm
into the- semen, and there
should bean absence of
sperm altogether, alive or
dead... ; ;

L. know that it takes live

“sperm te make you pregnant,
bat Tam still airaid to trust

this operatian until someone
can tell me why there is any
sperm at all after 13 years.

DEAR. READER —_ It’s
true that sperm may still be
in the semen for months after
a vasectomy. Before it is
assumed that the surgery has
resulted in sterility, it is nec-
essary to have at least one,

‘and preferably three, speci-

mens that show no significant
amounts of live sperm.

. The number of sperm that
are already out of the teslicle
and further up the tube or
lodged within the prostate .

“NOW FOR THE
GOOD WNEWSE

ie

DUNJA SAWISK!, REGIS—
TERED NURSE AT PRINCE
GEORGE, BRITISH COL
UMBIA, HAS THREE

PATIENTS AT HER 83-

ACRE FARM—BALD

EAGLES SROUGHT TO .
HER BY CONSERVATION
OFFICERS. ONE BIRD,

BLIND IN ONE EYE FROM ~ |
A TUMOR, HAS BEEN.) 5.7
CONVALESCING FOR

FOUR YEARS. SHE HAS
ALSO NURSED GEESE

ANO OTHER BIRDS

BACK TO HEALTH,

* gutsi

can be considerable. Aa soon .
as all of these are expelled... -
there should be no more live °

sperm available to: cause .
pregnancy. -

’ How did the dead sperm
gel through in’your husband’s
case? You are right in assum-
ing that if the lubes were
completely blocked that. no
sperm, live or dead, should

gét through a cut and tied °

vas. After 13 years the logical

explanation is that thereisan: .

opening belweer the tubes
that generale sperm and the
e track. That could be
froma faulty technique or be-
eause a new opening was
formed later, which can, hap-
en. When a new: opening
orms on its own after an ap-
parently successful opera-
tion, the man -may become

. fertile again. a
Possibly related to the pre-

‘vious operation, the tubes in
your husband within the
testicles apparently have quit
forming any significant

" amounts of live sperm cells.

This happens to some men
without any operation with
the tubes wide open, so you
can't be sure that this is true.
In this condition it is most
unlikely that the man will be
able to induce a pregnancy.
Perhaps your husband
could have the test repeated
after two or three days of no
relations and if it doesn't
have any. significant live
sperm ‘then you should be
able to proceed with reasona-
ble confidence that you won't,
get pregnant.
Send your questions to Dr.
Lamb, in care of this newspa-
er, P.O. Box 1551, Radio City
tation, New York, N.Y.
10019. For a copy of Dr.
Lamb's booklet on. impo-
lence, send 50 cents to the
same adidress and ask for the
“Impotence” booklet.

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You ACT LIKE
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. |

me

ft nccommeniicate fe TOT
THIS sVEEK'S LETTER: | am
16 years old and I have a boy-
friend who is 17. We've been
having problems — lately, he
treats me as if I were 5 years
old. I'm the first ta admit I act
like a child when I get mad, but
~ he seems to be treating me that
way all the time, Also, my
* mother has been getting on my
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ways telling me I should be glad
that she lets mo go out so much
with my boyfriend. She thinks
I'm not mature enough to handle
a serious Fetationship. I think I
am, besides, my boyfriend and 1
are-in love, Isn't my mother be-
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