The Asthma Epidemic
Dr. Gary Rachelfsky
There are twenty million Americans who suffer from asthma and many of them are not getting the care they need either due to ignorance or lack of resources. The societal cost is frightening:
Each year, asthma is responsible for:
- 400,000 hospitalizations
- 1 million emergency room visits
- 2.3 million days spent in hospitals
- 3 million work days lost
- 10 million school days lost
Dr. Rachelfsky, a renowned asthma specialist for the past thirty years, has started a foundation to rectify this dire situation. The goal of Dr. Rachelfsky's foundation, National Asthma Campaign, is to implement the guidelines for asthma treatment/ control outlined in the current National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Expert Panel Report 3 (NAEPP EPR-3) [NAEPP is a committee with representatives of 36 gov't professionals, public/private partnerships, etc which was created to oversee the development and distribution of guidelines for asthma] through research and education. He wants to make sure that every child can breath freely -- no matter what conditions they were born with or develop. Among the issues addressed by the foundation will be: -the astoundingly high rate of asthma, often untreated or under treated, in inner city youths.- why asthma remains under diagnosed despite the plethora of drugs on the market to treat it – and their accompanying advertising budgets?
From the back cover of Dr. Rachelfsky's best selling book, "Free Your Child from Asthma", co-authored with Patricia Garrison:
*Minimize your child's asthma symptoms, avoid unexpected attacks, and say good-bye to emergency room visits!*
You take your child to the doctor, follow a treatment plan to the letter, and administer the prescribed drugs, yet the coughing and wheezing persist. And then there are those frightening emergency room visits. The daily anxiety of asthma has taken both an emotional and a physical toll on your child and has left you helpless to give him or her long-lasting relief.
It doesn't have to be this way, according to Dr. Gary Rachelefsky, a leading asthma specialist who has treated thousands of children over the past 30 years. In /Free Your Child from Asthma, /you'll find out why so many children with asthma aren't getting the care they need and how, in just four weeks, you can help put your child on the fast track to a symptom-free life.
Get the knowledge and skills you need to:
* Recognize the early warning signs of an attack
* Identify asthma triggers and what to do about them
* Make sense of medications and their side effects
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Maya Benyehuda |
