Asthma and Allergy Action Plan for Kids

Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Statistics show that up to 40 percent of children in the United States suffer from allergies and at least 10 percent suffer from asthma. That translates into almost five million American children affected by both allergies and asthma. And as Dr. Allen J. Dozor, head of one of the largest pediatric pulmonary practices in the United States, has seen among his patients, some of the most upsetting effects of allergies and asthma are the psychological wounds inflicted 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, such as 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. His warmhearted but reality-based approach includes * How to give the right amount of medication for best effects and no side effects * Empowering your children to manage their own condition so that they can feel safe and secure * Prevention and management in school * Handling emergenciesAnd much more! Leseprobe 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...

Product details

• Authors: Allen Dozor, Kate Kelly
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2005
• EAN: 9780743235778
• ISBN: 978-0-7432-3577-8
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Health; MEDICAL / Pediatrics, Paediatric medicine, medical; health; well being; healthy