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    Asthma
    Asthma
    Asthma
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    Asthma

    By Mona Kerby

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    Asthma is a common disease, affecting millions of people. But it is a frightening condition. During attacks, a person cannot get a breath and helplessly fights for air while the level of panic increases. The first step in controlling asthma is to be informed. Now back in print, this revised and updated edition discusses the different kinds of asthma, their causes, and remedies.

    AWARDS
    Named to the list of Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12

    REVIEWS
    “A highly detailed description of the nature and causes of this disease. Included are encouraging stories of active and productive people, including practicing athletes, who as asthmatic.” Horn Book Guide

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMona Kerby
    Release dateFeb 21, 2018
    ISBN9781732044807
    Asthma
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    Mona Kerby

    Mona Kerby writes award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and picture books for children. She is a college professor and has been a kindergarten teacher and an elementary school librarian. She has received the Texas Library Association Siddie Joe Johnson Award for outstanding achievement in children’s library service, the Outstanding Teacher Award at Little Elementary School, and the Outstanding Teacher Award at McDaniel College in Maryland where she holds the L. Stanley Bowlsbey Endowed Chair in Education and Graduate and Professional Studies. Her 38 Weeks Till Summer Vacation won the Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Award and was nominated to the master lists of the South Dakota Prairie Pasque Award and the Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Award. She has written biographies on Frederick Douglass, Amelia Earhart, Samuel Morse, and Beverly Sills. Her books Asthma and Cockroaches were named Outstanding Trade Books for Students in K-12 in Science. Owney, the Mail-Pouch Pooch won the California Young Readers Award and the Vermont Red Clover Award; was nominated to five state reading award lists in Kansas, Missouri, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee; was named to the Bank Street College Best Children’s Books of the Year List; and received the Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Award. See www.monakerby.com for more information.

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      Asthma - Mona Kerby

      ASTHMA

      by

      Mona Kerby

      Smashwords Edition

      – MK Publications –

      Published on Smashwords by:

      MK Publications

      Westminster, Maryland

      Asthma

      Copyright 1989 by Mona Kerby

      Revised and updated 2017

      ISBN 978-1-7320448-0-7 (ebook, all formats)

      ISBN 978-0-9993790-2-8 (print)

      Originally published by Franklin Watts in New York

      ISBN 0-531-10697-7

      Theodore Roosevelt: Wikipedia Commons

      David Beckham: Wikipedia Commons

      Jackie Joyner-Kersee: Wikipedia Commons

      The Respiratory System: Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

      Inflamed Bronchial Tube: iStockPhoto / blueringmedia

      Asthma Triggers: John Brown, Asthma Clinical Research Network (ACRN)

      Dr. Whetzel’s Cigarettes: asthmahistory.blogspot.com

      Young lady using an inhaler: iStockPhoto / Wavebreakmedia

      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

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      AWARDS

      Named to the list of Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12.

      REVIEWS

      A highly detailed description of the nature and causes of this disease. Included are encouraging stories of active and productive people, including practicing athletes, who as asthmatic. —Horn Book Guide

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Chapter One – What is Asthma?

      Chapter Two – More about Asthma Triggers

      Chapter Three – Medications

      Chapter Four – Exercise

      Chapter Five – Preventing or Controlling Attacks

      Chapter Six – Special Problems

      Glossary

      For More Information

      About the Author

      Introduction

      As one of the most common childhood diseases, asthma diagnoses throughout the world have dramatically increased over the last twenty-five years. In the United States, some 14 percent of children suffer from the disease. Asthma is the leading cause of school absenteeism. In 2008, students missed 10.5 million days of school.

      Asthma can strike suddenly and severely and then disappear for weeks at a time. The most ordinary of events can trigger an attack that can, in rare cases, be fatal if untreated. With good reason, many people with asthma are terrified of wind, trees, perfume, or even their own laughter.

      This does not have to be so. Although asthma is not curable, is one of the most treatable conditions in the world. And attacks can usually be prevented. The purpose of this book is to provide information that will promote prevention and proper treatment.

      Famous People with Asthma

      Sometimes, people wish their lives were different. If you have asthma, you might have said to yourself many times, If only I didn’t have asthma, my life would be so wonderful. And perhaps it would be better.

      But some of the world’s greatest figures have had serious medical problems. In fact, they may have become great because they

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