The latest on how to understand, treat, and manage asthma

This straightforward guide helps the over 17 million adults with asthma as well as parents with asthmatic children to get a handle on the disease–and manage it effectively. Covering everything from symptoms and diagnosis to treatment options and prevention strategies, Dr. William Berger shows asthma sufferers how to understand the relationship between allergies and asthma, pinpoint asthma triggers, and evaluate asthma medications. Readers will discover how to handle the special issues associated with childhood asthma, take advantage of the latest therapies and management strategies, and much more.

William E. Berger, MD (Mission Viejo, CA), a leading asthma expert, is board-certified in pediatrics as well as allergy and immunology and has more than two decades of experience in treating asthma patients.

Minimize your child's asthma symptoms, avoid unexpected attacks, and say good-bye to emergency room visits!

You take your child to the doctor, follow a treatment plan to the letter, and administer the prescribed drugs, yet the coughing and wheezing persist. And then there are those frightening emergency room visits. The daily anxiety of asthma has taken both an emotional and a physical toll on your child and has left you helpless to give him or her long-lasting relief.

It doesn't have to be this way, according to Dr. Gary Rachelefsky, a leading asthma specialist who has treated thousands of children over the past 30 years. In Free Your Child from Asthma, you'll find out why so many children with asthma aren't getting the care they need and how, in just four weeks, you can help put your child on the fast track to a symptom-free life.

Get the knowledge and skills you need to:

• Recognize the early warning signs of an attack
• Identify asthma triggers and what to do about them
• Make sense of medications and their side effects
• Work with your child's doctor to get the right care and treatment
• Steadily reduce the amount of medication needed

Free yourself of allergies and asthma once and for all with Dr. Pescatore's breakthrough program

"Dr. Fred Pescatore's The Allergy and Asthma Cure reveals a unique and revolutionary understanding of the underlying conditions of allergy and asthma-from food triggers to the environment to nutritional deficiencies. His integrative program of both alternative and traditional treatments can dramatically improve health and vitality, safely and soundly. This book will have a prominent place in my library and I highly recommend it!"
- Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., C.N.S., author of the bestselling The Fat Flush Plan

"Conventional medicine has largely shrugged its shoulders in confusion about the causes of allergies and asthma in millions of people. In this book Dr. Fred Pescatore deals with the roots of these modern epidemics, drawing on his clinical experience, and he provides clear recommendations for turning back the tide and restoring health."
- Jack Challem, author of the bestselling Syndrome X and The Inflammation Syndrome

This guide to asthma shows the reader how they can beat the illness. Step-by-step programmes identify allergies and offer advice on how to use diet to treat asthma and how to cope better with asthma attacks. Alternative medicine therapies are assessed and breathing exercises that can help reduce asthma symptoms are described. Also included is information on asthma drugs and their side effects.