Children's Health

If you are looking for a children's health book for yourself or for a new mom as a shower gift, I highly recommend Your Child's Health: The Parents' One-Stop Reference Guide to: Symptoms, Emergencies, Common Illnesses, Behavior Problems, and Healthy Development by Barton D. Schmitt, M.D., F.A.A.P. I received this book as a shower gift for my 1st child, who is now 10, and it is wonderful. I still reference it periodically today and it is so worn that it no longer has a cover. I also give this book to the all new mothers that I know as a shower gift and they love it as well!

The book pretty much everything you can think. The reason I like this book so much is how the information. Th entries are concise, easy to read and well indexed. This book is also used by Providence Hospital's 24-Hour Nurse Advice hotlind.

Here is the basic outline for illnesses.
Name / Symption / Similar Condition / Causes / Expected Course / Call your child's physician 1) Immediately if 2) Within 24 hours if 3) During office hours if / Home care options / Common mistakes / Prevention.

At Barnes and Noble online you can take look inside the book.

About Barton Schmitt
Barton D. Schmitt, MD, FAAP, is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Director of the Sleep Disorder Clinic and Encopresis-Enuresis clinic at The Children's Hospital of Denver. He has written more than one-hundred articles for fellow pediatricians, as well as the book Pediatric Telephone Protocols and the computer software program The Pediatric Advisor, used by over four-hundred-and-fifty hospitals nationwide.