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About Your Child's Asthma: A Guide For Parents
Product Description Asthma is not a diagnosis. If you or your doctor thinks your child might have asthma, your next question should be: "What disease is causing my child to have asthma?" There are many diseases that cause asthma, and these diseases require different therapies. Learning what is causing your child's asthma, wheezing, or coughing is the most important step to ensure that your child receives the best treatment. Unfortunately, that first diagnostic step is skipped all too often. Your child's asthma is unique, just as your child is unique. In this book, you will learn the treatments that will work or won't work for the type—or types—of asthma your child has. You will learn about viruses and allergies and everything else that causes wheezing and coughing in babies through young adults. Your Child's Asthma provides not only the most relevant and up-to-date information, but also a healthy dose of common sense. Review Each child is an individual, and each child with asthma should be treated individually. In this highly readable book, Dr. Hunt pushes back a little - and shows parents how to push back - against institutions that permit only algorithm-based, generic care for childhood asthma. --Ben Gaston, MD, Chief, Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergy, Immunology and Sleep Medicine, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH, USA Dr. Hunt does a great job explaining asthma and I highly recommend this book for parents, patients and medical students. --Tina Merritt, MD This book is long overdue. It is a frankly honest look at a very complex problem written with a tremendous amount of humor and knowledge; it was a joy to read. I highly recommend it to all parents with asthmatic children and, quite importantly, to medical providers treating children with asthma. It will change the way doctors think too. It will empower parents with knowledge, sensibly presented, with just the right flavoring of the science. -- Nico W. Vehse, MD, Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Hasbro Children's Hospital, Medical Director of Asthma Camp and Community Asthma Program Excellent...very readable from a parent's perspective....nice job of balancing technical writing about medical information while still creating a very accessible informational book for parents...well organized and thorough. -Steve Feder DO FAAP, FACOP; Immediate Past President, Maine Chapter American Academy of Pediatrics; Associate Professor, Clinical Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine Dr. John Hunt is an expert in childhood asthma... The doctor's ability to disseminate information and compassionately communicate as a parental peer, rather than a superior, is a breath of fresh air. Each chapter is unobstructed by the concept that asthma is the final diagnosis. Hunt discusses physiology, triggers, tests, complications, therapies, medications, and most importantly, he expands the once narrow passageway to understanding the basis of your child's unique asthma. - Alisa Fleming, Allergic Living, Winter 2016 About the Author John Hunt, MD, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology and both a Pediatric Pulmonologist and an Allergist/Immunologist. He is one of the very first doctors in the United States trained in both pediatric subspecialties that care for children with asthma symptoms. His perspectives on childhood asthma formed under the mentorship of the best medical minds in the world. He grew up with asthma himself and has two asthmatic children. Dr. Hunt focuses on the specialness — the individuality — of each child. And that makes all the difference. Dr. Hunt is co-founder of Trusted Angels Foundation, which works in West Africa. He is also the author of two novels, Higher Cause and Assume the Physician.
