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Product Description:
In this breakthrough book, Dr. Doris Rapp offers a simple yet effective approach to handling "problem" children. Is This Your Child? shows parents how to identify the common foods, chemicals, or common allergic substances that could be the culprits that cause some children or adults to feel unwell or act inappropriately. If your child is always sick, hyperactive, a slow learner, or cranky, the first question you should ask is not "What drug should be prescribed?" or "What have I done wrong as a parent?" Instead, find out the cause.
Dr. Rapp gives sensible suggestions about how these reaction to foods and environmental factors can be recognized, prevented, and treated. With this information, many affected children should feel, act, behave, and learn better. If you can detect unsuspected environmental illness in your child - or yourself - you can change your lives so you're more content, happy and free of illness.
Pages:
626
Cover:
Soft
Publisher:
William Morrow and Company, Inc.
Date Published:
1991
Table of Contents:
Foreword: How Can You Use This Book to Help Your Child?: 7 Acknowledgments: 11 Tables and Charts: 17 Author's Note: My Change From a Traditional to an Expanded Concept of Allergy: 19 Glossary: 21 Part One: What Is An Allergy? Chapter 1: How Many People Have Allergies?: 33 Chapter 2: Typical Allergies: 45 Chapter 3: How to Recognize Unsuspected Allergies: 65 Part Two: General Clues To Allergy In Various Age Groups Chapter 4: Infant Allergies: 99 Chapter 5: Toddler Allergies: 122 Chapter 6: Child Allergies: 132 Chapter 7: Adolescent Allergies: 142 Part Three: How Can You Detect and Help Your Child's Allergies Quickly? Chapter 8: Diets That Help Quickly: 157 Chapter 9: Record-Keeping Made Easy and Effective: 194 Chapter 10: What Else Can You Do?: 212 Chapter 11: Allergies Due to Factors Inside Your Home or Child's School: 228 Chapter 12: Allergies Due to Factors Outside Your Home: 253 Chapter 13: More About Chemical Pollution: 262 Part Four: Specific Problems Often Not Recognized as Allergy Chapter 14: Is Your Child Always Sick?: 321 Chapter 15: Hyperactivity Is a Mixed Bag: 327 Chapter 16: Tourette's Syndrome Overlaps With ATFS and ADD: 342 Chapter 17: Is Ritalin Necessary?: 351 Chapter 18: Aggression in Children Due to Allergy: 367 Chapter 19: Is Your Child Really Slow, or Could It Be Due to Allergy?: 380 Chapter 20: Fatigue, Headaches, Tics, Seizures - Could They Sometimes Be Due to Allergy?: 394 Chapter 21: Delinquency - Does It Start Early in Allergic Children?: 412 Chapter 22: Could Allergy and Suicide Be Related?: 423 Chapter 23: The Yeast, Candida, or Monilia Controversy: 439 Part Five: Treatment Requiring The Expertise of Others Chapter 24: The Practical Rotary Diet: 457 Chapter 25: Allergy Extract Testing and Therapy: 481 Chapter 26: Drug Therapy: 511 Chapter 27: Nutrition and Vitamins: 530 Chapter 28: Counseling and Psychotherapy: 553 Appendix A: Food Sources of Some Allergenic Substances: 563 Appendix B: Aids to Keep You Ecologically Healthy: 574 Appendix C: Audiocassettes and Videotapes About Environmental Medicine: 582 Appendix D: Specialists in Environmental Medicine: 585 Appendix E: Additional Histories: 587 Bibliography: 602 Index: 616
About the Author:
Doris J. Rapp, M.D., F.A.A.A., F.A.A.P., is a board-certified environmental medical specialist and pediatric allergist for children. She is clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the founder of the Practical Allergy Foundation in Buffalo and is the past president of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine.
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