Alzheimer's and Other Dementias : Answers at Your Fingertips (eBook)

Answers at Your Fingertips

Harry Cayton, James Warner, Nori Graham (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2007
236 Seiten
Class Health (Verlag)
978-1-85959-200-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Hospital admissions for allergy have tripled over the past twenty years and yet allergy services in the UK are inadequate, and expert advice and treatment is very difficult to access. So it is more important than ever that people affected by allergy do their best to become well informed about their condition and its treatment. This book can help you do this. Allergies: Answers at your fingertips gives you no-nonsense medically accurate answers to 330 questions about all types of skin, food and respiratory allergies. All are real questions asked by people who suffer with these allergies every day. Explains the causes, explores hereditary and multiple allergies, identifies the triggers and shows you how to control your allergies with medication, trigger avoidance techniques and complimentary therapies. No-nonsense medically accurate answers to 330 questions about all types of skin, food and respiratory allergies. All are real questions asked by people who suffer with these allergies every day. Explains the causes, identifies the triggers and shows you how to control your allergies with medication, trigger avoidance techniques and complimentary therapies. Easily accessible sections explaining the causes and effects of different skin, food and respiratory allergies and how they can be diagnosed. Comprehensive information on all the allergies that may run in your family, and how multiple allergies can combine to affect each other Medically accurate advice about medication, trigger avoidance techniques and complementary therapies. Guidance on avoiding the allergens that affect you, and how to deal with allergies in the home, at work and on holiday.This book is a refreshing distillation of the medical literature, writtenin a question and answer format and designed to help steerpatients accurately through the allergy maze. Dr Clough is a childhealth specialist who has a special interest in allergic disease, and sheis therefore particularly well qualified to translate medical knowledgeinto a form that is easily understandable by the general public. The rising trends that appear to be occurring in disorders such as asthmaand hay fever are almost entirely related to the increasing trends inallergy probably produced by changes in our environment. Theimportance of environment in helping allergic disorder cannot beunderestimated. This book presents a balanced view of how medicalintervention coupled with environmental control can lead toimprovement in the manifestations of many allergic disorders.'The small (even silly) questions you have answered are often the ones that can cause the most stress and are impossible to get answered by the medical profession.'

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.9.2007
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
• ISBN-10: 1-85959-200-7 / 1859592007
• ISBN-13: 978-1-85959-200-7 / 9781859592007