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Is This Your Child's World? How You Can Fix the Schools and Homes That Are Making Your Children Sick [Paperback]

Doris Rapp (Author)
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August 4, 1997
IS YOUR CHILD ALLERGIC TO SCHOOLS?

Find out whether your child's unexplained illnesses, behavioral problems, or learning difficulties are actually being caused by a sensitivity to substances commonly found in schools.  Leading pediatric allergist Dr. Doris J. Rapp gives you fast, easy, inexpensive solutions in this practical and comprehensive guide to environmental illness.

ò How to tell if environmental illness is causing your child's common physical, emotional, and behavioral symptoms......p. 19

ò Why every parent of a child diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder should have the child tested for food allergies......p. 20

ò What to do if your child comes home from school with red earlobes, dark eye circles, or puffiness below the eyes......p. 45

ò Why you should watch for distinctive reactions like nose-rubbing, skin-scratching, a spacey "out of it" look, and various throat sounds......p. 68

ò How changes in your child's handwriting can provide vital clues......p. 80

ò Problem areas to look for in your child's school building......p. 119

ò What to do if the culprit is indoor air pollution......p. 127

ò How to determine if your child's illness is chemical--from cleaning agents and carpets to chemical-laden construction materials and pesticides--and what you can do about it......p. 177

ò How a change in diet could improve your child's life in 3 to 7 days......p. 206

ò Lessons learned from other sick schools--how parents, teachers, and administrators solved the problem......p.  277

ò How to test air and carpet samples from your child's school for chemicals that are causing a reaction in your child......p.  359

ò Ten major treatment options that may prove helpful to your child--from avoidance and allergy extract treatment to detoxification......p. 399

ò What you need to know about legal assistance and insurance matters......p. 447


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From Library Journal

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. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Booklist

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 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 656 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam (August 4, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0553378678
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553378672
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.8 x 1.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #298,098 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome review for parents and educators, April 27, 2000
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This review is from: Is This Your Child's World? How You Can Fix the Schools and Homes That Are Making Your Children Sick (Paperback)
This is a great book that details how environmental hazards along with food allergies affect children. It analyzes schools and homes to inform people of the chemicals, paint, carpeting, spices, etc. cause symptoms of Learning Disabilities or behavior problems. The chapters in this book are broken down specifically to help you target your concerns. I loved the pictoral and writing samples given in this book. As a special educator, I found this book extremely helpful in my school building and with my own family. I recommend this to anyone with concerns about their children or students.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute Must Read, March 27, 2007
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ChemFreeMom (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Is This Your Child's World? How You Can Fix the Schools and Homes That Are Making Your Children Sick (Paperback)
This book is incredible and I have given a copy to my son's principal. We had already incorporated a lot of her suggestions based on appointments with our Environmental Physician. Her book was instrumental in helping me replace cleaners in my son's classroom. Also, her other book, Our Toxic World is worth reading as well. We have seen some wonderful changes for the entire family by changing cleaners, eliminating pesticides, and identifying triggers for us. This should be required reading material for school administrators.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent work!, March 11, 2006
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James Jewett (Munroe Falls, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Is This Your Child's World? How You Can Fix the Schools and Homes That Are Making Your Children Sick (Paperback)
Dr. Rapp hits another home run with this work. If you have school age children who have experienced behavioral problems at school, then you want to read this book.

This book also gives the reader suggestions on things that can be changed at home, with diet and nutrition to improve your child's well being.

Don't be surprised if school officials try to discredit this work. After all, "traditional thinking", while outdated, has prevailed for years. We gave a copy of the book to the school principle, who promised to read it. The other "experts" simply pushed the book away and changed the topic.

We have shared this information with others, and have a "loaner copy" that we are sharing with other parents in our school system.
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