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Protecting Your Child's Health : Expert Answers to Urgent Environmental Questions.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pediatrics, American Academy of.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children--Diseases--Environmental aspects.
- Environmentally induced diseases in children.
- Children and the environment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : American Academy of Pediatrics, 2020.
- Summary:
- Protect your children from environmental dangers with expert guidance.As a parent, protecting your child is your top priority.But with so much conflicting information, how can you be sure you're making the right choices?.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Editors
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. A Healthy Family Begins Before the Baby Arrives
- Chapter 2. Feeding Your Baby
- Breastfeeding
- Bottle-feeding and Formula
- Chapter 3. Safe Drinking Water: It's More Complicated Than Buying a Filter
- Water Testing, Regulations, and Notices
- Babies and Drinking Water
- Drinking Water at Home and School: How Do We Know It Is Safe?
- Well Water
- Chapter 4. Healthy Eating: From Farm to Kitchen
- Antibiotics in Food
- Cooking and Food Storage
- Pesticides in Food
- Food and Cancer
- Arsenic in Food
- Lead in Food and Cookware
- Herbs and Supplements
- Chapter 5. Your Home: Keeping It Safe for Your Family
- Getting Rid of Pests Safely
- Arts and Crafts Are Safe, Aren't They?
- Renovating Your Home Safely
- Air: What You Need to Know to Breathe Easy
- Allergy and Asthma Triggers
- Air Cleaners
- Tobacco Smoke
- A Sea of Chemicals?
- Personal Care Products
- Specific Hazardous Substances
- Asbestos
- Carbon Monoxide
- Lead
- Mercury
- Nickel
- Radon
- Chapter 6. Technology: Friend or Foe?
- Chapter 7. Let's Go Outside! Playing It Safe in the Yard or on the Beach
- Decks and Wooden Structures
- Fun in the Sun
- Heat
- Sunscreen
- Playing in the Yard
- Chapter 8. What a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood!
- Healthy Neighborhoods
- Air Quality
- Noise Pollution
- Landfills
- Hazardous Waste Sites
- Chapter 9. Oh, the Places They Go! All Around Town With Your Child
- Healthy Child Care
- School
- Around Town
- Chapter 10. Your Teenager: A Whole New World
- Chapter 11. Navigating Your Child's Health Care
- Blood and Other Testing for Environmental Toxicants
- Dental Issues
- X-rays
- Specific Health Conditions
- Asthma
- Cancer
- Developmental Disabilities
- Obesity.
- Chapter 12. The Big Green Picture: Saving People and the Planet
- Appendix
- Resources
- Index
- About the Editors
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781610024389
- 1610024389
- OCLC:
- 1196258368
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