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E-grāmata: Strategies for Protecting Your Child's Immune System: Tools for Parents and Parents-to-Be [World Scientific e-book]

(Cornell Univ, Usa), (Performance Plus Consulting, Usa)
  • Formāts: 300 pages
  • Izdošanas datums: 15-Mar-2010
  • Izdevniecība: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
  • ISBN-13: 9789814287104
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  • Formāts: 300 pages
  • Izdošanas datums: 15-Mar-2010
  • Izdevniecība: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
  • ISBN-13: 9789814287104
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Strategies for Protecting Your Child's Immune System is the first book to focus on prevention of environmental damage to the immune system of embryos, babies and older children. It provides expecting and existing parents, their families and physicians with science-based information to protect and proactively manage their child's immune system. Environmental exposures (pollutants, allergens, drugs, diet, physical factors) in the home, school and community can damage the developing immune system and increase the risk of lifelong chronic diseases such as allergies, asthma, type 1 diabetes, celiac disease and neurological problems. This book imparts specific tools to parents and their physicians to help keep the early-life immune system out of harm's way and minimize environmental health risk.
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv
Part I The Basic Science
1(112)
Toxicology 101
1(12)
Introduction
1(3)
The Dose Makes the Poison
4(1)
Too Much of a Good Thing
4(2)
Selenium: Deficiency, Health (Immune Protection) and Toxicity
6(2)
Some Factors are Rarely Safe in Nature, Others are Rarely Dangerous
8(1)
Children are Special in Toxicology
9(1)
Benefits and Risks of Aspirin: Children are Not Small Adults
9(2)
Conclusions
11(2)
What's the Risk
13(8)
Introduction
13(1)
What is Risk?
13(2)
How Does Risk Apply to Your Child?
15(1)
How Does Risk Relate to the Developing Immune System and Immune-Related Disease?
16(1)
What Can We Hope to Gain Through Reduced Risk?
17(1)
What If We Can't Do It All?
18(3)
The Risk Exercises
21(6)
Introduction
21(1)
Identifying Your Comfort Zone for Risks
21(1)
The Snake in the Grass Exercise
22(2)
Metallica-Unplugged
24(3)
Introduction to the Immune System
27(10)
Tyrone's Tiff Against Tetanus
28(1)
Frank Fights the Flu
29(1)
Susie's Sniffles and Sneezes
30(1)
Carlos Cancels Cancer
31(1)
Sara's Splinter
32(1)
Tina Tackles a Tummy Ache
33(1)
How Innate and Acquired Immunity Work Together
34(3)
How the Immune System Develops
37(12)
Gestational Development
38(9)
Summary
47(2)
The Special Conditions of Pregnancy and the Immune System
49(6)
Pregnancy Primer
49(1)
Immune Protection Against Foreign Invasion of the Body
50(1)
A Fetus Appears Foreign to the Mother's Immune System
50(1)
Avoiding Immune Rejection of the Fetus---Immune Skewing
51(1)
Terminology of the Fetus-Protecting Immune Skewing
51(1)
How the Pregnancy Causes Immune Skewing
52(1)
Impact of Pregnancy and Immune Skewing on the Mother
52(1)
Impact of Pregnancy and Immunity Skewing on the Fetus
53(1)
The Baby Plays Immune Catch-Up Starting at Birth
53(2)
The Healthy Immune System at Work
55(6)
Introduction
55(1)
Innate and Acquired Immunity Working Together in Your Child
56(1)
Protecting the Doorways or "Avenues" of Infection and Toxic Exposure
57(1)
Immunological Memory
58(1)
Organ and Tissue Maintenance
58(1)
Conclusions
59(2)
The Dysfunctional Immune System and Its Features
61(10)
Introduction
61(1)
The Targets of Environmentally-Induced Immune Dysfunction
62(1)
Critical Windows of Immune Vulnerability
63(1)
Prominent Patterns of a Dysfunctional Immune System in Children
64(4)
Conclusions
68(3)
Avenues for Immune Exposure
71(10)
Introduction
71(1)
The Airways
72(2)
The G.I. Tract
74(2)
The Skin
76(2)
The Eyes
78(1)
The Urogenital Tract
79(1)
Conclusions
79(2)
Diseases Stemming From Prenatal and Early Life Toxic Exposures
81(14)
Introduction
81(3)
Allergic Disease and Asthma
84(2)
Autoimmune Diseases
86(2)
Cardiovascular Diseases
88(1)
Childhood Cancers
89(1)
Neurological Diseases
90(1)
Infectious Diseases and Adverse Vaccine Responses
91(3)
Conclusions
94(1)
The Disease Progression Matrix
95(8)
Introduction
95(1)
Categories of Connected Diseases
96(4)
Conclusions
100(3)
Categories of Environmental, Physical and Psychological Factors
103(10)
Introduction
103(1)
Categories of Risk Factors for the Prenatal and Childhood Immune System
104(7)
Conclusions
111(2)
Part II Specific Strategies
113(30)
Prenatal Strategies for Preventing Immune System Damage
113(10)
Introduction
113(1)
Personal Behavior and Choices
114(3)
Home Environment and Neighborhood
117(3)
Workplace Environment
120(1)
Conclusions
121(2)
Strategies to Use During the First Few Years of Life
123(10)
Introduction
123(1)
General Considerations
124(2)
In the Home
126(2)
Outside the Home
128(2)
Childhood Diet
130(1)
Conclusions
130(3)
Undoing the Damage of the Past in Adulthood
133(10)
Introduction
133(1)
Pharmaceutical Medications
134(1)
Food Allergies and Sensitivities
134(1)
Probiotics
135(1)
Natural Immune System Enhancers
136(3)
Alternative Therapies
139(1)
Proven Stress Reduction Techniques
140(1)
Conclusions
140(3)
Part III Specific Factors
143(78)
Top 25 Risks
143(34)
Introduction
143(1)
The Top 25 Concerns
144(30)
Conclusions
174(3)
Other Risk Factors
177(4)
Introduction
177(2)
Conclusions
179(2)
Postnatal Triggers of Disease --- Infections
181(4)
Introduction
181(1)
How Triggers Work
181(1)
Diseases That Can Have Infections as Triggers
182(3)
Postnatal Triggers of Disease --- Vaccinations
185(10)
Introduction
185(7)
Putting Causes and Triggers Together
192(1)
Conclusions
193(2)
Dietary Factors that Affect the Immune System
195(16)
Introduction
195(1)
Vitamins
195(4)
Minerals
199(2)
Amino Acids
201(2)
Fatty Acids
203(1)
Too Little or Too Much Food
204(1)
Dietary Protein
204(1)
Phytochemicals
205(2)
Phytoestrogens, Isoflavones and Soy-Based Formulas
207(1)
Prebiotics
208(1)
Probiotics
208(1)
Conclusions
209(2)
Hygiene and Pets
211(10)
Introduction
211(2)
Origins of the Hygiene-Immune Dysfunction Concept
213(2)
Prenatal/Neonatal Toxicants vs. Postnatal Microbes
215(1)
Diet vs. Postnatal Microbes
216(1)
Genetic Background vs. Postnatal Microbes
217(1)
Pets in the Home
217(4)
Part IV Safety Testing
221(8)
Developmental Immunotoxicity Testing --- Past, Present and Future
221(8)
Introduction
221(2)
Identifying Danger: The Sieve Approach
223(1)
Looking Beyond the Obvious
223(3)
Safety Testing: Is It Really Relevant to Childhood Immune Health Concerns? Car Talk and Performance-Based DIT Testing
226(1)
Looks Can Deceive, Will It Run?
227(1)
Conclusions
227(2)
Appendix 229(18)
Glossary 247(10)
Selected References and Additional Resources 257(14)
Index 271
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