Everything You Need to Know about Asthma Book

Explains what asthma is, how it is diagnosed and treated, and how it can affect a person's life.

School Library Journal

Gr 5 Up-These well-written and well-organized volumes explain the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of two common medical ailments in children and young adults. The types of medications (prescription and over the counter), similar conditions, and prevention are also addressed. Asthma emphasizes ways to prevent attacks with assurances that inhalers, nebulizers, and other medications will result in relief. Readers are told that while Mononucleosis is often undiagnosed or mistaken for the flu, it is a very real disease that only responds to long periods of rest, a frustrating situation for active young people. Both books have average-quality full-color and black-and-white photos throughout. Straightforward and informative overviews of two often misunderstood conditions.-Christine A. Moesch, Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, NY