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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 | |