The Big Book of Symptoms: A-Z Guide to Your Child?s Health - Tapa blanda

From the most respected authority in pediatrics comes a must-have resource for all parents. Symptoms: What Every Parent Needs to Know. From time to time every parent has to evaluate their child's symptoms and determine what action to take. This book is designed to help you distinguish minor everyday concerns with more serious conditions, and to suggest a reasonable course of action. Organized into 2 sections, an A to Z directory of the 100 or so most common childhood symptoms and an illustrated first aid manual, Symptoms will help parents determine the best way to help their sick child. Edited by 2 esteemed members of the AAP, Steven P. Shelov, MD, FAAP, and Shelly V. Flais, MD, FAAP, both authors of previous best-selling titles.

Steven P. Shelov, MD, MS, FAAP is a professor of pediatrics at Stony Brook Medicine and associate dean of undergraduate medical education at the Winthrop University Hospital Regional Campus of Stony Brook. He received his medical doctorate from the Medical College of Wisconsin and his master's degree in administrative medicine from the Universiy of Wisconsin. Author of more than 100 original publications and 15 books. Shelly Vaziri Flais, MD, FAAP, is a board-certified practicing pediatrician and mother of 4 children. An instructor of clinical pediatrics with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, she is the author of the American Academy of Pediatrics Raising Twins, as well as a contributor for Sleep: What Every Parent Needs to Know. She has shared her reality-based parenting approach with national and local television, radio, online, and print news outlets, as well as contributed to Parents, Parenting, Twins, and Healthy Children magazines. The first edition of Raising Twins was honored at both the 2010 National Health Information Awards and the 2009 Midwest Book Awards