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. The author provides common-sense strategies that will show 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, manage the factors that can bring on an attack, work with health professionals, navigate the health care system, deal with traveling and how to handle the special needs of infants and teenagers. Comprehensive, up-to-date, and including a detailed resource section of organizations dealing with asthma management, this book is a reference you can return to again and again to help your child lead a healthy, happy life.
Authors: Harold J. Farber & Michael Boyette
Publishers: Henry Holt & Company
Date of Publication: 2001
No. of pages: 231