Product Description

This easy to understand 656-page book illustrates the way to tell which children or adults have environmental illness by the way a person looks, feels, acts, or behaves. The writing, the pulse or the ability to breathe also provides important clues. It tells how to pinpoint specifically the reason why certain children or adults are unable to learn in certain rooms, inside or outside buildings or at certain times after specific exposures at school, home or work. It clearly explains ways to verify your suspicions using both fast, easy, and relatively inexpensive and more expensive methods. If no one is listening, it tells you what to do and where to go for insurance or legal help. Chapter 3 has the fast, easy, and practical answers you are looking for. To see exactly how children and adults can be affected by the various exposures described in this book, see the provocative video, "Environmentally Sick Schools".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #82789 in Books
• Published on: 1997-08-04
• Released on: 1997-08-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 656 pages

From Library Journal
Rapp, a board-certified pediatrician with additional certifications in pediatric allergy and environmental medicine, has written this book to help parents and teachers recognize environmental illnesses and to outline steps for action in combating them. The first section describes environmentally caused illnesses and why they may be occurring. The other four sections concern sick schools and outline ways to deal with these problems. Examples of illnesses and possible treatments are included throughout the book. Two of the sections have an introductory overview, which would have benefited the other sections. The book is extensively footnoted, and there are several sections at the end-additional reading, organizations, suppliers, and so on-that readers will find helpful. It is unclear, however, whether these are appendixes. Rapp includes references to and information from another of her books, Is This Your Child? Discovering and Treating Unrecognized Allergies (Morrow, 1991). Recommended for large consumer health collections.
Mary J. Jarvis, Methodist Hosp. Medical Lib., Lubbock, Tex.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Five years ago, pediatric allergist Rapp offered parents helpful (if sometimes controversial) advice on how to recognize and respond to childhood allergies in Is This Your Child? Her new book shifts its focus to the environments--schools, public buildings, residences--in which children may be exposed to substances that can cause headaches, mood swings, and even learning disabilities. Some readers may feel Rapp overstates children's potential sensitivity to trace elements in foods, beverages, and water and to lead, light, electromagnetic energy, radon, asbestos, carpets, and common chemicals. Still, even parents who take Rapp's more emphatic warnings with a grain of salt will find plenty of useful information here on subjects such as the common symptoms of allergic reactions or the range of tests and treatments to be considered for each type of sensitivity. Written as "a wake-up call, leading to a serious attempt to curtail the spread" of environmental illness, the book provides useful information most parents would otherwise have difficulty locating. Mary Carroll

Review
Environmental dangers may be as obvious as you think: consider these case histories and a focus by Rapp, a specialist in environmental medicine. From an 'antsy' child's puzzling school behavior, traced to disinfectant aerosol spray used in the nursery school, to a child's hidden allergy to a new carpet at school, this helps parents track down hidden problems and also provides easy, inexpensive remedies to health problems which could cause asthma, hyperactivity, and learning problems. -- Midwest Book Review

Environmental dangers may be as obvious as you think: consider these case histories and a focus by Rapp, a specialist in environmental medicine. From an 'antsy' child's puzzling school behavior, traced to disinfectant aerosol spray used in the nursery school, to a child's hidden allergy to a new carpet at school, this helps parents track down hidden problems and also provides easy, inexpensive remedies to health problems which could cause asthma, hyperactivity, and learning problems. --Midwest Book Review

Customer Reviews

Awesome review for parents and educators
This is a great book that details how environmental hazards along with food allergies affect children. It analyzes schools and homes to inform people of the chemicals, paint, carpeting, spices, etc. cause symptoms of Learning Disabilities or behavior problems. The chapters in this book are broken down specifically to help you target your concerns. I loved the pictoral and writing samples given in this book. As a special educator, I found this book extremely helpful in my school building and with my own family. I recommend this to anyone with concerns about their children or students.

Excellent work!
Dr. Rapp hits another home run with this work. If you have school age children who have experienced behavioral problems at school, then you want to read this book.

This book also gives the reader suggestions on things that can be changed at home, with diet and nutrition to improve your child's well being.

Don't be surprised if school officials try to discredit this work. After all, "traditional thinking", while outdated, has prevailed for years. We gave a copy of the book to the school principle, who promised to read it. The other "experts" simply pushed the book away and changed the topic.

We have shared this information with others, and have a "loaner copy" that we are sharing with other parents in our school system.

Absolute Must Read
This book is incredible and I have given a copy to my son's principal. We had already incorporated a lot of her suggestions based on appointments with our Environmental Physician. Her book was instrumental in helping me replace cleaners in my son's classroom. Also, her other book, Our Toxic World is worth reading as well. We have seen some wonderful changes for the entire family by changing cleaners, eliminating pesticides, and identifying triggers for us. This should be required reading material for school administrators.