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Control Your Child's Asthma
A Breakthrough Program for the Treatment and Management of Childhood Asthma
By Harold J. Faber, M.D., and Michael Boyette
Published by Owl Books
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About the Book
 Discover the program that has helped thousands of children successfully manage their asthma.
This invaluable handbook offers simple,
easy-to-implement strategies that thousands of children and their families have already used to successfully manage asthma, and that can work for you and your child. Pioneered in the clinics and
hospitals of the Kaiser Permanente health care system, this comprehensive program focuses not just on medical treatments, but also on the emotional and social concerns that often accompany this
difficult-to-control condition. Commonsense strategies will show you how to create an asthma-management plan geared specifically to your child's needs, including how to:
- get the greatest benefits-and experience the fewest side effects-from medication
- prevent flare-ups and minimize their severity when they do happen manage the factors that can bring on an attack
- work with doctors, teachers, and child care providers
- navigate the health care system, including HMOs and insurance companies
- deal with travel away from home
- handle the special needs of infants and teenagers
Comprehensive, up-to-date, and including a detailed resource section of organizations dealing with asthma management, Control Your Child's Asthma
is a reference you can return to again and again to help your child lead a healthy, happy life.
About the Author
Harold J. Faber, M.D., a board-certified pediatric pulmonologist, is assistant
chief of pediatrics for Kaiser Permanante in the Napa and Solano Counties of northern California. He serves as Chair of the Continuing Medical
Education Committee for the American Lung Association of the East Bay and as Chair of the Community Health Committee for the Solano County Medical Society. He lives in Vallejo, California.
Michael Boyette
is a veteran medical journalist and the author of The Attention Deficit Answer Book (with Alan Wachtel, M.D.). He lives in Philadelphia.
Excerpt
The Attack
It seems as if the attack always comes at night.
On a weekend, with the doctor's office closed until Monday.
A small frightened child and an equally frightened parent, struggling alone in the dark against a potentially life-threatening disease.
Questions fill the mother's mind: Will it pass this time -- or will I need to get everyone out of bed and rush to the emergency room? Should I give her
another puff on her inhaler, or has she had too much already? Was I wrong to let her play out in the cold today? If I know it's not her fault, why am I so angry?
And how will we get through the weekend when I'm so exhausted?
Monday morning, at the doctor's office: "She seems to be breathing fine,"
they say. The look in the doctor's eyes says more: overprotective parent . . . manipulative child.
A handful of prescriptions for drugs with strange-sounding names and
confusing instructions -- short-acting, long-acting. Something about steroids -- aren't those supposed to be bad for you? Does anybody know what the long-term side effects are? Am I doing my child harm?
Waiting at the pharmacy. The cash register rings. Again. And again.
Back home, a phone message from the school. "She's been missing so
many days, she's falling behind." And another from the boss: "We need to know when you'll be in."
Arguments at home. The same old arguments. Over who can smoke and
where. The dog. The carpets. And whether it isn't all just in her head anyway.
Friends and relatives are offended by the suggestion that their house is too
dusty, that she can't ride in their car if they insist on smoking while driving. The teacher still doesn't see why she can't wait until lunchtime to get her inhaler from the office.
And it's only Monday.
Where to Order
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