** How to Help Your Child Live an Active, Healthy Life
** A straightforward simple guide for parents
Written especially for parents, this book is a comprehensive guide to a
better understanding of childhood asthma. Only parents and the immediate
family know the intense anxiety and pain they experience when their
child suffers from breathlessness, or wakes up in the middle of the
night with a severe attack of asthma.
Written in a warm, reassuring tone, the author explains the causes of
asthma in children, discusses what goes wrong inside the lungs, and
reviews the various diagnostic procedures and treatment options
available, including advances in safe medication. Most important, the
book discusses the critical role parents can play in preventing and
managing asthma attacks:
** Creating a safe, allergen-free environment
** Recognizing advance warning signs
** Pre-empting attacks
** Reducing the intensity of attacks
** Ensuring safe and minimal medication
** Enhancing body immunity and tolerance to allergens
** Helping the child to help himself
This edition for the US market includes the latest updates in the field
and a new chapter on alternative treatments for asthma in children.
This is the ninth book in Hunter House's popular Positive Options
series.