Asthma and allergies are at epidemic proportions. It doesn't have
to be that way. Two experienced pediatric allergists tell
everything a conscientious parent needs to know about these
conditions, the best in approved treatments, behavioral changes
that can help control them, what families can do to reduce the toll
that even severe asthma and allergies take on their lives, the
myths and realities of alternative treatments and food allergies,
skin allergies, advice for support groups, lists, checklists, and
much, much more.
Fun and entertaining, almost every page is enlivened by anecdotes
from the authors' decades of practice showing the special rapport
that have made them so successful in getting results and keeping
patients out of emergency rooms.
They make common cause with overworked pediatricians, general
practitioners, and other primary care physicians who, because of
the way our health care system is organized, are doing more asthma
and allergy treatment than ever before.
But wait There's still more Asthma Allergies Children, the book, is
half of a new approach to providing specialty asthma and allergy
care. It is being published simultaneously with the launch of
AsthmaAllergiesChildren.com, the new town square where parents and
primary care physicians can pick the brains of specialists about
their own children or patients. The website has mailbags for
parents and doctors, pollen counts, news coverage, review of the
latest developments in allergy science, "Tip of the Week" for
controlling disease and discomfort, and guest editorials by the
most important thinkers in the field.
The authors say that they and their colleagues recognize must do
more to leverage their knowledge. The ranks of Allergy specialists
are dwindling even as the numbers of asthmatic and allergic
patients are rising. The cost is immense. Asthma is the single
largest cause of school and work absence. Allergic and asthmatic
children lose out on all the things that childhood is supposed to
be about.
The book is the mother ship of the Asthma Allergies Children
enterprise. Read about the connection between your child's nose and
lungs, and how stopping allergy symptoms in the nose can reduce the
danger of life-threatening asthma attacks; The hazards from chronic
inflammation even when there are no visible symptoms; The damage to
a child's body from over-reliance on "rescue" medication, and
inadequate "control"; How modern technology can tell you if your
child has been "naughty or nice"; The use and misuse of allergy
testing, and how false positives can result in malnutrition in
small children; The strengths and weaknesses of immunotherapy; The
stages of an allergic life; and the most sympathetic and wisest
advice ever to worried parents about managing a home where a child
has severe allergies.
And because every child is special, go to the website to ask that
special question.
Asthma Allergies Children: A Parent's Guide and
AsthmaAllergiesChildren.com-a winning combination for helping your
child lead a happier, healthier life.
A veritable bible for parents of allergic kids. I enjoyed Asthma
Allergies Children tremendously. It is full of the kind of great
stories that teach both patients and doctors more than mere facts.
The science is explained in language you don't need an MD to
follow. This book should be kept right next to the antihistamines
and epinephrine, and used even more frequently.
--Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of Every Patient Tells a Story. Her NY
Times column "Diagnosis" inspired the TV drama, "House MD."
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