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IS YOUR CHILD ALLERGIC TO SCHOOLS?

Find out whether your child's unexplained illnesses, behavioral problems, or learning difficulties are actually being caused by a sensitivity to substances commonly found in schools.  Leading pediatric allergist Dr. Doris J. Rapp gives you fast, easy, inexpensive solutions in this practical and comprehensive guide to environmental illness.

ò How to tell if environmental illness is causing your child's common physical, emotional, and behavioral symptoms......p. 19

ò Why every parent of a child diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder should have the child tested for food allergies......p. 20

ò What to do if your child comes home from school with red earlobes, dark eye circles, or puffiness below the eyes......p. 45

ò Why you should watch for distinctive reactions like nose-rubbing, skin-scratching, a spacey "out of it" look, and various throat sounds......p. 68

ò How changes in your child's handwriting can provide vital clues......p. 80

ò Problem areas to look for in your child's school building......p. 119

ò What to do if the culprit is indoor air pollution......p. 127

ò How to determine if your child's illness is chemical--from cleaning agents and carpets to chemical-laden construction materials and pesticides--and what you can do about it......p. 177

ò How a change in diet could improve your child's life in 3 to 7 days......p. 206

ò Lessons learned from other sick schools--how parents, teachers, and administrators solved the problem......p.  277

ò How to test air and carpet samples from your child's school for chemicals that are causing a reaction in your child......p.  359

ò Ten major treatment options that may prove helpful to your child--from avoidance and allergy extract treatment to detoxification......p. 399

ò What you need to know about legal assistance and insurance matters......p. 447

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #200651 in Books
• Published 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

Customer Reviews

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.

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.

Help
Actually I am trying to find where I could contact Dr. Rapp. We have been living in a house with stachybotrys for two years and my son has developed ADD with mood swings. If anyone can help me please e-mail me.

Thanks