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The Asthma and Allergy Action Plan for Kids: A Complete Program to Help Your Child Live a Full and Active Life

Autor Dr. Allen Dozor, Kate Kelly
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 mar 2005
According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, childhood asthma has nearly doubled in the last twenty years and is now the leading cause of hospitalization for children. Statistics show that up to forty percent of children suffer from allergies and at least ten percent of children suffer from asthma, perhaps even more. That translates into millions of children worldwide affected by both allergies and asthma. As Dr. Allen Dozor has seen in his practice, some of the most upsetting effects of both allergies and asthma are the psychological wounds they inflict on a child's self-image. There is the constant protectiveness from caregivers, confusing limits and rules, headaches, obesity, shortness of breath, and sleep deprivation. In some cases these side effects, like stress and obesity, cycle back to make the original condition worse. Dr. Dozor's plan, developed over the last twenty years, is designed to empower both parents and children. A warm-hearted but reality-based look at these problems, this book answers every question and concern worried parents could have, whether their children suffer from allergies alone, asthma alone, or both. This book is certain to give their children a new lease on life.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780743235778
ISBN-10: 0743235770
Pagini: 416
Ilustrații: 4 b&w illus
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:04000
Editura: Touchstone Publishing
Colecția Touchstone
Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Allen J. Dozor, MD, is chief of pediatric pulmonology at the Maria Fareri Children's Hospital at Westchester Medical Center and professor of pediatrics at New York Medical College.

Kate Kelly (1950-2012) was the coauthor of two bestselling books, You Mean I’m Not Lazy, Stupid, or Crazy?! and The ADDed Dimension. An advanced practice mental health nurse with over thirty years’ experience as a family, group, and individual therapist, she was a legendary pioneer in the world of Adult ADHD and founded the ADDed Dimension Coaching Group.

Extras

Introduction: Why This Book Is So Important to Me

Soon after I began working in medical research as part of a summer science program in high school, I knew that I loved academic medicine. Clinical research seemed a great way of combining my desire to do something "important" with the joy of learning. I devoted most summers in high school and college to cardiac and cardiovascular research, and I seemed destined for a career as an academic cardiologist. But in my pediatric residency in New York City, I learned that the number one reason children were hospitalized was respiratory disease. For three years I worked more than a hundred hours a week caring for children with difficulty breathing. I was struck by how little we really understood about common childhood illnesses such as allergies and asthma, croup, bronchitis, pneumonia, and cystic fibrosis; and how often our medications proved inadequate. I remember doing everything I could for a child and then sitting with anxious parents, all of us praying their child would get better.

It's hard to believe now, but back then there were no specialists for these most common illnesses in pediatrics -- there were no pediatric pulmonologists. When I learned that a few of the major children's hospitals in the country had small training programs, including Harvard's Children's Hospital in Boston, a lightbulb went on for me. Here was an opportunity to do something new and special and very important.

I was fortunate to have excellent pediatricians, who were really good at taking care of children with breathing problems, as role models. With their guidance, I cared for hundreds of children with asthma and watched many patients of all ages die of respiratory failure -- from two-pound babies in the neonatal ICU to teenagers and young adults with cystic fibrosis. As a resident I often stayed up all night at the bedside of a child gasping for air. I remember like it was yesterday an eight-year-old with severe croup, a disease that normally affects infants and toddlers. With croup, anxiety and fear significantly worsen respiratory distress, so I spent the night holding this boy's hand and reassuring him to keep him calm. By the time the sun came up the next morning, the medicines had taken effect. His breathing relaxed at last. I felt exhilarated; we had made it through together.

Children are so wonderful, so innocent and fresh, so trusting and appreciative. No matter how tired I was after one of those thirty-six-hour shifts, I would saunter home feeling so lucky that these children and their parents allowed me to share these special moments with them. I continue to pursue solutions for these children; and I have made my life's work caring for youngsters who suffer from all types of breathing difficulties. While much of this information is applicable to adults, my area of expertise is children. If your child with allergies or asthma is older than twenty-one, this is not the book for you.

I have written this book to empower parents not to settle for less than optimal control of their child's allergies or asthma. Parents have the right to demand more from their physicians and from the medications they prescribe. I want to convey this message to as many parents as possible so our children grow up living happy, active lives.

Allen J. Dozor, M.D.

August 2003

Cuprins

Contents

Introduction: Why This Book Is So Important to Me

1 What Is Happening to Your Child?

1 An Unnecessary Burden: Feeling Fair-to-Poor When Good-to-Great Is Possible

2 Allergies and Asthma: The Basics

3 Understanding the Causes of Allergic Reactions

2 In Search of a Solution

4 Consulting the Doctor: Pediatrician, Family Physician, or Specialist?

5 Reaching a Diagnosis

6 Identifying Food Allergies

3 Allergy and Asthma Action Plan: Prevention

7 Allergy Shots: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How

8 Day-to-Day Prevention at Home and Beyond

9 The Truth About Cats, Dogs, Birds, and Other Animal Friends

10 Prevention and Management of Allergies and Asthma at School

11 Preventing Allergic Reactions to Foods

12 Prevention and Management Away from Home: Sleepovers, Summer Camp, Family Trips, Scuba Diving, and Mountain Climbing

4 Asthma Action Plan: Medication and Treatment

13 Asthma: Overview of Treatment

14 Asthma Triggered by Allergens

15 Asthma Triggered by Infections

16 Asthma Triggered by Exercise

5 Allergy Action Plan: Medication and Treatment

17 Allergic Rhinitis (Nasal Allergies) and Allergic Conjunctivitis (Eye Allergies)

18 Skin Allergies

19 Drug and Insect Allergies

20 Anaphylaxis and Emergency Management of Allergic Reactions

6 Enjoying Life

21 The Psychological Aspects of Managing Allergies and Asthma

22 Keeping Allergies and Asthma Under Control

Appendix: Resources

Student Asthma Action Card

Acknowledgments

Index

Recenzii

T. Berry Brazelton, M.D author of Touchpoints: Your Child's Emotional and Behavioral Development Here at last is a book that empowers both parents and children to prevent and control this frightening disease.
Nancy Sanders founder and president, Allergy and Asthma Network/Mothers of Asthmatics This is the big-picture approach parents have been clamoring for.
Mike Tringale, M.S.M. Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America A superior source of up-to-date information written in a way that makes it easy for anyone to understand. It should be in the home of every person with asthma or allergies.

Descriere

From the head of one of the world's largest paediatric pulmonary practices comes a complete plan to empower parents with a strong promise: never again will allergies or asthma hold a child back.