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Table of Contents Introduction: What¿s Wrong with Your Child¿s Asthma Care? Part I: Understanding Asthma Care and Treatment Chapter 1: Assessing Current Treatment: Is Your Child Symptom-Free? Raising Your Asthma IQ Why Your Child--and You--Are in the Bind You¿re In Common Asthma Mis-steps How to Measure Progress: The Childhood Asthma Bill of Rights Chapter 2: Asthma Basics: What You Need to Know Asthma Clues and Causes What Is Happening in Your Child¿s Lungs? Identifying Asthma Triggers Conditions that Aggravate Asthma Chapter 3: An Asthma Diagnosis: What It Means¿and What It Doesn¿t The Importance of a Healthy Perspective Debunking Common Myths about Diagnosis Confronting Your Fears about Asthma Chapter 4: Figuring Out the Medication Morass The Challenges of Treatment The Long and Short of Asthma Medicines Asthma Devices: The Best Route to Symptom Relief The Steps in Asthma Treatment Chapter 5: What About Alternatives? The Pros and the Cons of Natural Treatments Factors Other than Medication that Can Affect Treatment Alternatives and Your Child The Alternative Arsenal: Potentially Valuable Treatments ¿Who Knows, But (Probably) Harmless¿ Alternatives Troubling Alternatives The Placebo Effect Pro-Active Asthma Care and Alternative Treatments Part II: Taking Control: A Four Week Pro-Active Asthma Care Program Chapter 6: Week One: The Doctor¿s Office Exam, Exposed A Lesson in History: What Should Be Covered in the Initial Office Visit Proactive Asthma Care: The Office Visit, Revisited Week One at Home: The Start of a Journey Chapter 7: Week Two: Charting Progress and Eliminating Asthma Triggers The Week Two Office Visit Adhering to the Prescribed Treatment Plan Monitoring Symptoms at Home Addressing Asthma Triggers within Your Control Getting ¿Uncontrollable¿ Triggers under Control How Your Child Should Feel by End of Week Two Chapter 8: Week Three: Improving Life and Symptoms Away from Home Assembling Your Asthma Team Creating an Asthma-Friendly Environment at School An Action Plan for Managing Symptoms at School Asthma on the Road Asthma Overnighters: Tips for Sleep-away Camps and Sleep-overs Chapter 9: Week Four: Living (Well) with Asthma and Looking Ahead to the Future Quality of Care: Should you Change Physicians? Giving Allergies a Shot: Immunotherapy Checking for Other Undiagnosed Conditions Raising an Empowered Patient Enjoying a Symptom-Free Future Concluding Remarks Resources Index
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Asthma in children -- Popular works.