Health Tuber

The first and most important step to take is to decide to take charge of your child’s asthma. Parents of asthmatic children suffer a range of contradictory feelings. Strongest is the natural concern for their child. Are you giving them the best treatment, or is there something you have not thought of or are unaware of? Then there are the doubts about being over or under protective. If they have non-asthmatic siblings do you treat all of your children the same? Perhaps there is some guilt that asthma may have been inherited and it is your fault your child has the condition.

About 2-1/2 million children are killed or injured by hazards in the home each year. The good news is that many of these occurrences can be prevented by using simple child safety devices that are readily available today.

Psychological and developmental disorders in children have been linked with adoption for centuries. Although in the United States, only about 2% of children under the age of eighteen are adopted by people outside their family, a large number of these children have been referred to at least some form of psychological treatment and/or special education program. Instances of learning disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are especially high among adopted children.

I just read an article about a study that compared the health of Americans with those of Britons of the same age and ethnicity ie caucasian, of course the Americans won hands down in ill health. The article wondered why with all the money that we spend on health care over here, we are more unhealthy. They were saying that maybe we spend less on preventive health care etc. As a physician that has practiced medicine on two continents and being married to one that actually practiced in England for 5 years I can vouch for the fact that we practice more preventive medicine here than anywhere in the world. The problem lies somewhere else. As a country USA has more chemicals insidiously pervading in every aspect of our lives than any country in the world. No wonder with all the money in the health care system we are so unhealthy.