Is This Your Child's World - Hardcover

Rapp, Doris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553105132 ISBN 13: 9780553105131

Publisher: Bantam, 1996

Synopsis

A best-selling author and pediatric allergist explains how hidden toxins in classrooms and at home pose a serious threat to children, putting them at risk physically, mentally, and psychologically, and shows how to keep them from harm.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Doris Rapp is a board-certified pediatric allergist and environmental medicine specialist. She is often referred to as "the mother of environmental medicine".

Reviews

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.

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553105132
• ISBN 13: 9780553105131
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 635