Understanding and Managing Your Child's Food Allergies

Understanding and Managing Your Child's Food Allergies
Author: Scott H. Sicherer
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2006-11-17
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 080188957X

For children with food allergies, eating—one of the basic functions of life—can be a nightmare. Children who suffer or become dangerously ill after eating peanuts, seafood, milk, eggs, wheat, or a host of other foods require constant vigilance from caring, concerned parents, teachers, and friends. In this empathetic and comprehensive guide, Dr. Scott H. Sicherer, a specialist in pediatric food allergies, gives parents the information they need to manage their children’s health and quality of life. He describes why children develop food allergy, the symptoms of food allergy (affecting the skin, the gastrointestinal tract, and the respiratory system), and the role of food allergy in behavioral problems and developmental disabilities. Parents will learn how to recognize emergency situations, how to get the most out of a visit with an allergist, what allergy test results mean, and how to protect their children—at home, at school, at summer camp, and in restaurants. Informative, compassionate, and practical, this guide will be indispensable for parents, physicians, school nurses, teachers, and everyone else who cares for children with food allergies.

Taking Charge of Your Child's Allergies

Taking Charge of Your Child's Allergies
Author: M. Eric Gershwin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1475766858

The number of children with allergies is astounding-nearly one child in six is said to suffer from some sort of allergy. The problems of these allergic children can be as mild as occasional attacks of hay fever or as severe as disfiguring eczema and life-threatening bronchial asthma. In addition to the obvious health problems associated with having allergies, affected children may experience recurring colds, painful ear infections, and other allergy linked conditions, all of which cause frequent school absences. Childhood allergies affect school performance adversely; they may be instrumental in reducing attention span, and they are certainly a major social, psychologi cal, and financial burden for children and their parents. This book is a complete guide to childhood allergies presented in simple jargon-free language. It provides parents with comprehensive, up-to-date, and practical information and advice on how to help their allergic children. It identifies the many allergic symptoms, tells what they look like, how prevalent they are, what causes them, and what to do about them. It outlines steps parents can take to help their children understand, manage, and control their allergies. Its goal is to help parents and children cope effectively with a major childhood problem.

Caring for Your Child with Severe Food Allergies

Caring for Your Child with Severe Food Allergies
Author: Lisa Cipriano Collins
Publisher: Trade Paper Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1999-11
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Understanding and Learning to Live Well with Food Allergies Considering that severe allergic reactions can be life-threatening, parents often find that protecting children can be a daunting task-trying to make sure they are safe, while still creating a sense of normalcy as they grow up. But it can be done. Sorting the truth from the myths and misunderstandings, Caring for Your Child with Severe Food Allergies presents not only pertinent facts but, more important, it helps families cope with the emotional aspects of raising a child at risk for severe food reactions. With compassion and insight, Lisa Cipriano Collins blends her own experiences raising a child with severe peanut and tree-nut allergies with practical observations, interviews with parents, and data from recent medical studies. By learning how to reduce risks while promoting a child's normal emotional development, parents can address the needs of their allergic child and his or her siblings, as well as their own needs-and work toward a happy, healthy family. Caring for Your Child with Severe Food Allergies covers: * Identifying allergies * Working with schools * Restaurant and travel concerns * Encouraging independence * Finding treatment * Safety risks and solutions * Helping your child help himself * Identifying ingredients * Making an emergency kit * Finding support * Developing community awareness

The Parent's Guide to Food Allergies

The Parent's Guide to Food Allergies
Author: Marianne S. Barber
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2001-04-10
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780805066005

Whether you are the parent, relative, caregiver, or teacher of a food-allergic child, you know how challenging it is to keep that child safe, healthy, happy, and well fed. But now, help is at hand. The team of authors behind this invaluable book -- the mother of a food-allergic child, a board-certified allergist, and a psychologist -- will take you through every step of life with a food-allergic child.

Take Charge of Your Child's Health

Take Charge of Your Child's Health
Author: George Wootan
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1992
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780517573655

Proceeding from the assumption that physicians can best care for children only in cooperation with parents, Dr. George Wootan, a family practitioner for more than 20 years, presents a valuable medical guide that will help parents recognize childhood ailments, treat minor injuries, and become familiar with a well-child pediatric examination. 25 illustrations.

Feeding Your Allergic Child

Feeding Your Allergic Child
Author: Elisa Meyer
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1997-02-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780312146122

For parents of children with food allergies comes a cookbook of healthy, delicious, nutritious and fun recipes for food they will actually like and eat.

Taking Care Of Your Child

Taking Care Of Your Child
Author: Robert H. Pantell
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 556
Release: 1990
Genre: Children
ISBN: 9780201608922

A completely revised and updated edition of this award-winning book, this sixth edition gives parents clear, practical advice on feeding, medicines, doctor visits, discipline, and all other aspects of raising a healthy child.

Taking Food Allergies to School

Taking Food Allergies to School
Author: Ellen Weiner
Publisher: Jayjo Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Allergy
ISBN: 9781891383052

Jeffrey learns about his food allergies and how to choose foods he can eat.

Childhood Allergies

Childhood Allergies
Author: Dr. Dawn Lim
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9814516694

Whether you are a parent, relative, caregiver or teacher of an allergy-prone child, you know how challenging it is to keep that child safe, happy and healthy. You want to determine what is ‘safe’ and what is not, educate others about your child’s allergies, turn your home into a ‘safe haven’, create an ideal school and day care environment, handle parties or family get-togethers in your home with ease, take vacations, go anywhere to eat without a second thought, know the potential hazards lurking outdoors, and help your child enjoy sports, camps or other co-curricular activities without worry. From how and why different allergies occur to what the common triggers are, and how to manage these symptoms effectively, this book will provide all that and more About the Author Dr Dawn Lim is a paediatrician whose focus is on managing children with allergic conditions, including food allergies and asthma. After graduating from Trinity College (Dublin) with first class honours in Paediatrics, Dr. Lim finished her post-graduate Paediatric training in at KKH and the Children’s Medical Institute at NUH, and later obtained membership to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (London) and a Masters of Medicine (Paediatrics) from NUS. Previously an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore, Dr Lim is currently a member of various allergy associations and a medical advisor to the Food Allergy Support Group of Singapore.

The Allergy Book

The Allergy Book
Author: Robert W. Sears
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2015-04-07
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0316324817

From America's most trusted name in pediatrics, a comprehensive guide to treating and preventing nasal allergies, asthma, food allergies and intolerances, and more. Allergies are one of the most common ailments, causing children to miss school and parents to miss work. Left untreated or unresolved, stuffy noses, itchy skin, and irritated bellies can lead to chronic asthma, eczema, inflammatory bowel disease, and neurological disorders. Today's parents don't just want to treat their family's allergy symptoms; they want to eliminate allergies and prevent chronic and long-term health complications. The Sears show them how. Drs. Robert and William Sears present a science-based approach that has helped alleviate allergies in many of their patients, providing a plan not only for treatment, but also for prevention. A family-friendly resource, The Allergy Book offers all the reassurance and accessible, practical advice that parents need to resolve their children's allergies, now and throughout their lives.