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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: What's Wrong with Your Child's Asthma Care? | |
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| Understanding Asthma Care and Treatment | |
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| Assessing Current Treatment: Is Your Child Symptom-Free? | |
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| Raising Your Asthma IQ | |
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| Why Your Child-and You-Are in the Bind You're In | |
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| Common Asthma Missteps | |
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| How to Measure Progress: The Childhood Asthma Bill of Rights | |
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| Asthma Basics: What You Need to Know | |
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| Asthma Clues and Causes | |
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| What Is Happening in Your Child's Lungs? | |
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| Identifying Asthma Triggers | |
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| Conditions That Aggravate Asthma | |
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| An Asthma Diagnosis: What It Means ... and What It Doesn't | |
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| The Importance of a Healthy Perspective | |
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| Debunking Common Myths About Asthma | |
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| Confronting Your Fears About Asthma | |
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| Figuring Out the Medication Morass | |
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| The Challenges of Treatment | |
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| The Long and Short of Asthma Medicines | |
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| Asthma Devices: The Best Route to Symptom Relief | |
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| The Steps in Asthma Treatment | |
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| What About Alternatives? The Pros and the Cons of Natural Treatments | |
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| Factors Other than Medication That Can Affect Treatment | |
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| Alternatives and Your Child | |
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| The Alternative Arsenal: Potentially Valuable Treatments | |
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| "Who Knows but (Probably) Harmless" Alternatives | |
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| Troubling Alternatives | |
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| The Placebo Effect | |
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| Proactive Asthma Care and Alternative Treatments | |
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| Taking Control: A Four-Week, Proactive Asthma Care Program | |
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| Week One: The Doctor's Office Exam, Exposed | |
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| A Lesson in History: What Should Be Covered in the Initial Office Visit | |
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| Proactive Asthma Care: The Office Visit, Revisited | |
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| Week One at Home: The Start of a Journey | |
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| Week Two: Charting Progress and Eliminating Asthma Triggers | |
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| The Week Two Office Visit | |
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| Adhering to the Prescribed Treatment Plan | |
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| Monitoring Symptoms at Home | |
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| Addressing Asthma Triggers Within Your Control | |
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| Getting "Uncontrollable" Triggers Under Control | |
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| How Your Child Should Feel by the End of Week Two | |
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| Week Three: Improving Life and Symptoms Away from Home | |
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| Assembling Your Asthma Team | |
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| Creating an Asthma-Friendly Environment at School | |
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| An Action Plan for Managing Symptoms at School | |
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| Asthma on the Road | |
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| Asthma Overnighters: Tips for Sleepaway Camps and Sleepovers | |
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| Week Four: Living (Well) with Asthma and Looking to the Future | |
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| Quality of Care: Should You Change Physicians? | |
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| Giving Allergies a Shot: Immunotherapy | |
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| Checking for Other Undiagnosed Conditions | |
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| Raising an Empowered Patient | |
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| Enjoying a Symptom-Free Future | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Resources | |
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| Index | |