Allergies

Based on recent groundbreaking studies that will change the way parents feed their children, Allergy-Free Kids is a revolutionary guide to preventing food allergies.

When her infant daughter was diagnosed with life-threatening food allergies, Robin Nixon Pompa found Dr. Gideon Lack, a clinical researcher on the verge of a breakthrough in allergy prevention and treatment that would heal her daughter and, later, her sons.

The secret: building acceptance of allergens through repeated careful feedings. Instead of avoiding eggs, nuts, and other allergens, as previous recommendations held, most parents should introduce them into their children’s diets, “early, carefully and often, for at least the first five years of life.” This life-changing approach is being embraced by the medical community, especially for peanut allergy, and is reflected in new guidelines from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the National Institutes of Health and other major medical associations.

Allergy-Free Kids includes a concise, easy-to-understand overview of the research as well as seventy simple and delicious kid-friendly recipes to help parents integrate unfamiliar allergen foods into a child’s diet. Divided by allergen, Allergy-Free Kids contains sections on Eggs, Peanuts and Tree Nuts, Cow’s Milk, Sesame, Wheat and Fish. It also discusses other foods, such as kiwi and soy, which are increasingly causing allergic reactions. The book includes feeding advice, and maintenance doses, followed by recipes suitable for babies, toddlers and preschoolers, including Open Sesame Sweet Potatoes, Nut Flour Crackers, Cocoa “Puffs” and Eggs-Pretending-to-be-Muffins.

Following the new medical guidelines, Allergy-Free Kids empowers parents to help their kids avoid a lifelong struggle with food allergies—and bring variety and joy back to family meals.

Allergies plunges readers into a world where immense grief leads to mistakes, learning, and above all else, figuring out what love truly is. 

The first chapter of Allergies, “Winter,” deals with the loss of family, friends, and lovers; the second chapter – titled “Spring” – is about love after loss and reflects on the definition of love. The third chapter, “Summer,” grapples with the mistakes we make amid grief – the moments we seek the warmth of others to soothe us and the people we hurt while we are hurting. In the last chapter, the loss has finally settled like leaves on the lawn in autumn; this chapter reflects on loss and how we can open our hearts to love after loss. More than anything, this chapter reminds us that love is compassionate, sensual, respectful, and above all else, honest.

The new edition of Allergy, by Drs. Stephen Holgate, Martin Church, David Broide, and Fernando Martinez, uses an enhanced clinical focus to provide the clear, accessible guidance you need to treat allergy patients. A more consistent format throughout features new differential diagnosis and treatment algorithms, updated therapeutic drug information in each chapter, and additional coverage of pediatric allergies. With current discussions of asthma, allergens, pollutants, drug treatment, and more, as well as access to the full text and illustrations online at www.expertconsult.com, this comprehensive resource is ideal for any non-specialist who treats patients with allergies.

• Prescribe appropriate therapies and effectively manage patients’ allergies using detailed treatment protocols.

• Identify allergic conditions quickly and easily with algorithms that provide at-a-glance assistance.

• Explore topics in greater detail using extensive references to key literature.

• Access the fully searchable text online at www.expertconsult.com, along with a downloadable image bank.

• Manage allergies in both adult and pediatric patients using coverage of treatment practices for both in each chapter.

• Stay current on hot topics including asthma, allergens, pollutants, and more.

• Get up-to-date coverage of cell-based condition with brand new chapters on Eosinophilia: Clinical Manifestations and Therapeutic Options and Systemic Mastocytosis.

• Apply the latest best practices through new and updated treatment algorithms.

• Find therapeutic drug information more easily with guidance incorporated into each chapter.

The best allergy resource for the non-specialist.

Allergies plunges readers into a world where immense grief leads to mistakes, learning, and above all else, figuring out what love truly is. 

The first chapter of Allergies, “Winter,” deals with the loss of family, friends, and lovers; the second chapter – titled “Spring” – is about love after loss and reflects on the definition of love. The third chapter, “Summer,” grapples with the mistakes we make amid grief – the moments we seek the warmth of others to soothe us and the people we hurt while we are hurting. In the last chapter, the loss has finally settled like leaves on the lawn in autumn; this chapter reflects on loss and how we can open our hearts to love after loss. More than anything, this chapter reminds us that love is compassionate, sensual, respectful, and above all else, honest.