The Parent's Guide to Food Allergies: Clear and Complete Advice from the Experts on Raising Your Food-Allergic Child

The Parent's Guide to Food Allergies: Clear and Complete Advice from the Experts on Raising Your Food-Allergic Child

The Parent's Guide to Food Allergies: Clear and Complete Advice from the Experts on Raising Your Food-Allergic Child

The Parent's Guide to Food Allergies: Clear and Complete Advice from the Experts on Raising Your Food-Allergic Child

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Overview

The most comprehensive book on dealing with childhood food allergies, a problem that affects more than four million children in the United States.

Each year thousands of children in this country are diagnosed with one or more food allergies. For them — and their parents and caregivers — the ordinary patterns of life are profoundly disrupted. As families struggle with a serious condition that can at any moment become life-threatening, the stress is often overwhelming. Now this invaluable reference provides the practical help and reassurance parents have been waiting for.

To write this book, Marianne Barber, whose son has serious food allergies, teamed up with a pediatric allergy specialist and a psychologist who treats many people with severe allergies. The Parent's Guide to Food Allergies addresses in detail the practical, physical, and emotional issues kids and their families face, including vital information on:—handling emergencies —stocking a kitchen with safe, appealing foods—helping a child adjust easily in school —dealing with the stress that having a food-allergic child puts on family relationships—eating in restaurants and travelingComprehensive and authoritative, this book is certain to become the bible for anyone with a food-allergic child.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780805066005
Publisher: Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 04/10/2001
Edition description: REV
Pages: 384
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.84(d)

About the Author

Marianne Barber is an award-winning copywriter who runs her own direct-marketing agency. She is also the mother of Lucas, whose severe food allergies led her to write The Parent's Guide to Food Allergies.

Maryanne Bartoszek Scott, M.D., is a physician in private practice whose specialty is pediatric allergy and immunology.

Elinor Greenberg, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist in private practice.

Table of Contents

Forewordxi
Lucas's Storyxiii
Introductionxvii
Part IEating
1.Food Allergy--A Basic Overview3
2.Anaphylaxis36
3.Milk55
4.Egg68
5.Wheat74
6.Peanut80
7.Tree Nuts and Seeds89
8.Soybean97
9.Fish and Shellfish101
10.Unusual Allergies105
11.Food Families108
12.Hidden Allergens113
13.Food Additives135
14.Preventing Allergies in Your Next Child137
15.Communicating with Your Child's Health Care Providers (and Your HMO)140
16.Recipes148
Part IICoping
17.Help and Hope: Two Organizations That Are Making a Difference173
18.Organizing Your Kitchen177
19.Living Gracefully in the Real World184
20.Holidays and Special Occasions189
21.Traveling with Food Allergies200
22.Off to School215
23.Your School-Age Child's Emotional Well-Being232
24.Anxiety, Anger, and Depression241
25.Broadening Our Emotional Range254
26.Emotional Leaders and Task Leaders256
27.Forgiveness266
28.A Roundtable Discussion on Raising a Child with Food Allergies273
Part IIIItching, Sneezing, and Wheezing
29.Asthma291
30.Atopic Dermatitis (Eczema)306
31.Environmental Allergies313
Appendix AGlossary of Mysterious Ingredients333
Appendix BFood Manufacturers339
Acknowledgments343
Index345
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