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Is This Your Child's World? by Doris Rapp, M.D. ITEM NUMBER:    BOO-6522-S Your Price: Qty:

Product Description: Find out whether your child's unexplained illnesses, behavioral problems, or learning difficulties are actually being caused by a sensitivity to substances commonly found in schools. Leading pediatric allergist Dr. Doris J. Rapp gives you fast, easy, inexpensive solutions in this practical and comprehensive guide to environmental illness.
*How to tell if environmental illness is causing your child's common physical, emotional, and behavioral symptoms.
*Why every parent of a child diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder should have the child tested for food allergies.
*What to do if your child comes home from school with red earlobes, dark eye circles, or puffiness below the eyes.
*Why you should watch for distinctive reactions like nose-rubbing, skin-scratching, a spacey 'out of it' look, and various throat sounds.
*How changes in your child's handwriting can provide vital clues.
*Problem areas to look for in your child's school building.
*What to do if the culprit is indoor air pollution.
*How to determine if your child's illness is chemical - from cleaning agents and carpets to chemical-laden construction materials and pesticides - and what you can do about it.
*How a change in diet could improve your child's life in 3 to 7 days.
*Lessons learned from other sick schools - how parents, teachers and administrators solved the problem.
*How to test air and carpet samples from your child's school for chemicals that are causing a reaction in your child.
*Ten major treatment options that may prove helpful to your child - from avoidance and allergy extract treatment to detoxification.
*What you need to know about legal assistance and insurance matters.

Pages: 635
Cover: Soft
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1996
Table of Contents: Acknowledgements: xi
Preface: Is Your School Environmentally Sick?: xiii
Part I: Evaluating the Problem and Finding the Cause
Introduction for Part I: 3
1. Which Students and Teachers Are Affected?: 5
2. Typical Symptoms of Environmental Illness: 19
3. Fast, Easy, Inexpensive Ways to Find Answers: 33
4. Changes in Appearance: 67
5. Handwriting and Drawing Changes: 79
Part II: What You Can Do About A Sick School
Introduction for Part II: 117
6. Air-Quality Problems: 127
7. Indoor and Outdoor Chemicals: 169
8. Food and Water: 203
9. Lead, Asbestos, and Other Factors: 225
10. Pesticides and Carpet Chemicals: 239
Part III: How Some Schools Address Environmental Problems
11. Lessons Learned from Sick Schools: 277
12. Let's Learn from Canada: 299
Part IV: Helpful, Simple, And Sophisticated Tests and Treatment
13. Diagnostic Tests: 319
14. Tests for Special Problems: 371
15. Treatments for Environmental Illness: 397
Part V: Your Legal and Insurance Options
16. When You Need Legal Help Because No One Is Listening: 447
17. Insurance Considerations: 467
Part VI: Some Final Considerations
18. The Possibility of Chronic Illness: 493
19. Fast, Easy, Practical Tips for Parents, Teachers, and School Administrators: 511
Afterword: What Is a Utopian School?: 523
Appendix: 525
For Further Reading: 543
Resources: 555
Index: 605

Detailed Summary: Find out whether your child's unexplained illnesses, behavioral problems, or learning difficulties are actually being caused by a sensitivity to substances commonly found in schools. Leading pediatric allergist Dr. Doris J. Rapp gives you fast, easy, inex
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, and a New York Times best-selling author who has appeared on Oprah and many other nationally televised talk shows. 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 a past president of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine.