Asthma Treatment for Your Child

From two pediatric allergy and asthma specialists comes an important book that explains asthma treatments - how to diagnose and treat your child's allergy and asthma problems.

Allergies and asthma- particularly in children-are serious health problems in the United States. Over 15% of the population suffers from allergies and/or asthma, almost all of which have their beginnings in childhood.

In this timely and informative book, parents will learn: why children with allergies are sometimes misdiagnosed as having other ailments; how to use alternative treatments and holistic remedies; simple methods to allergy-proof their homes and pets; the 10 things parents do that make their children's allergy symptoms worse; and much more.

What Your Doctor May Not tell You About Children's Allergies and Asthma: Simple Steps to Help Stop Attacks and Improve Your Child's Health

by: Paul Ehrlich Larry Chiaramonte Release Date: 01 November, 2003, Media: Paperback

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Reader Reviews

Rating 4 of 5 - Important for your child's asthma treatment

There is significant evidence that the root cause of many, if not most, cases of asthma (and many allergies as well) is deficiency of magnesium. This fact is discussed in detail by Dr. Carolyn Dean in her excellent book The Miracle of Magnesium.

Dr. Dean recommends that all asthma sufferers take supplemental magnesium daily -- 600 mg daily for addults (proportionally less, according to their body weight, for children). People with asthma who follow Dr. Dean's advice about daily magnesium supplementation often improve dramatically even if they have continued to struggle with asthma under other treatments which omit magnesium supplementation. For your child's sake, please read Dr. Dean's important book and follow her advice regarding daily magnesium supplementation. It may well be the most important thing you will ever due to relieve this terrible ailment. By the way, although a variety of magnesium supplements are available, and beneficial, chelated magnesium -- which is readily available in most health food stores -- is the most effective.

Rating 5 of 5 - A New kind of medical book for asthma treatment

This is a different kind of medical book from any I've ever looked at.  The rest are predominantly lists and checklists, and dull as well.  This one not only dispenses very helpful advice but gets inside the heads of children who have these conditions, their parents, and explains theory and practice behind the medical specialty itself.  

Some of the anecdotes about how non-specialists can botch treatment are shocking.  Some if it is also quite funny.  Also, it's nice to read a book by doctors who still clearly love the practice of medicine and doing good for people, in spite of all the changes that have happened to the profession in recent years.  This book should make many lives better and even save some.

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