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    The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Asthma: Professional advice to help your child manage symptoms, be more active, and breathe better
    The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Asthma: Professional advice to help your child manage symptoms, be more active, and breathe better
    The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Asthma: Professional advice to help your child manage symptoms, be more active, and breathe better
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    The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Asthma: Professional advice to help your child manage symptoms, be more active, and breathe better

    By Jance C Simmons

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    A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateMar 1, 2008
    ISBN9781605502076
    The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Asthma: Professional advice to help your child manage symptoms, be more active, and breathe better

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      The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Asthma - Jance C Simmons

      The Everything Healthy Kids Series

      Asthma

      A troubleshooting guide for parents

      Adams Media, a division of F+W Media, Inc.

      Avon, Massachusetts

      Contents

      Introduction

      Asthma Defined

      How Does Asthma Occur?

      Why More Asthma Cases?

      Is There a Cure for Asthma?

      What Is Asthma Control?

      Tailoring Treatment Goals

      Developing an Asthma Action Plan

      Asthma Signs and Symptoms

      The Asthma Diagnosis

      Swelling Airways

      Wheezing

      Cough-Variant Asthma

      Nocturnal Asthma

      Signs of an Attack

      Asthma Medications

      The Medication Challenge

      Quick-Relief Medications

      Oral Corticosteroids

      Long-Term Control Medications

      Devices

      Metered-Dose Inhalers

      Spacers

      Dry-Powder Inhaler

      Nebulizers

      Storing Concerns

      Peak Flow Meters

      Spirometry — and Beyond

      Also Available

      Copyright Page

      Introduction

      For more than 10 years, millions of readers have trusted the bestselling Everything series for expert advice and important information on parenting and health topics ranging from pregnancy and postpartum care to asthma, dyslexia, and juvenile diabetes. Packed with the most recent, up-to-date data, Everything guides help you get the right diagnosis, choose the best doctor, and find the treatment options that work for your child.

      The Everything Healthy Kids Series books are concise guides, focusing on only the essential information you need. Whether you’re looking for information on how to treat ailments in children from infants to teenagers, advice on raising happy, well-adjusted kids, or suggestions for how to get your child to eat the right foods, there’s an Everything Healthy Kids Book for you.

      Asthma

      Today, many children with asthma can deeply inhale and release their breaths slowly to create soap bubbles or scatter milky white dandelions seeds or cool their hot soups. They don’t cough, nor do they wheeze. With new medications and new knowledge that sheds light on how to control asthma, they almost take for granted what even a generation or two before them couldn’t fully imagine: Safely controlling their asthma — by reducing constriction and inflammation of their airways — to do almost anything they want.

      But there’s a flip side to this picture. Many other children with asthma — perhaps even friends of those children who are controlling their asthma symptoms well — find themselves excusing themselves from gym class for fear of triggering their asthma symptoms. Or, maybe they have become regulars at the local hospital’s emergency room for when they have one of their frequent asthma flare-ups.

      Today in the United States, an estimated 6.5 million children under age eighteen (almost 9 percent of the population) are now diagnosed with asthma. This rate has more than doubled since 1980, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s now the most common chronic childhood disease in the country.

      But, despite the medical inroads that have been made in asthma treatment and control, many children in this growing population are still finding it hard to breathe. They’re continuing to cough and wheeze during the day, and sleep uncomfortably through the night. Many don’t have an asthma action plan or they’re not sure how to use a peak flow meter or inhaler correctly. These children are letting asthma symptoms manage them — instead of them managing it.

      Parents know that it’s a tough job getting on top of asthma — trying to monitor symptoms or figure out if those prescribed medications are doing their jobs. Oftentimes, it means working with a reluctant child who hates being different from friends or siblings.

      There’s no easy answer — especially working with a health care system that can be fragmented and short of time when it comes to communicating effectively. But you don’t have to let that control you — you can control it by asking physicians and health care providers to partner with you and answer your questions about how to best manage your children’s asthma.

      As you are seeing, medical science has moved along quickly to find better ways to treat and manage asthma symptoms. But sometimes science gets ahead of what you can practically do every day to help your children understand what asthma is and how they can live with it and

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