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Control Your Child’s Asthma:

A new book to empower parents

Common-sense strategies show parents how to create an asthma-management plan geared specifically to their 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

This invaluable handbook offers simple, easy-to-implement strategies. Pioneered in the clinics and hospitals of the Kaiser Permanente health care system, this comprehensive program focuses not only on medical treatments, but also on the emotional and social concerns that often accompany asthma.

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.

Harold J. Farber, M.D., a board-certified pediatric pulmonologist, is assistant chief of pediatrics for the Kaiser Permanante Vallejo Medical Center in 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, Pennsylvania.

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