Dec 4, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New book helps parents control children’s ear infections, avoid ear
surgery
WEST HARTFORD, CT (E-MAIL) -- Parent’s Ear Infection Cookbook:
Medical Recipes for Avoiding Surgery, written by Harvard-trained
pediatric ear specialist Howard G. Smith, M.D., teaches parents
that successful ear infection treatment need not require expensive
surgery or the repetitive use of strong antibiotics.
Dr. Smith’s recipes prevent ear infections by teaching parents how
to control the common colds and other problems that cause
them. His first instruction for moms and dads is “stop your
kid’s nose blowing! Nose blowing forces infected material into the
ears and nasal sinuses. If you were meant to blow your nose, you
would have been born with bellows.”
Widespread nose blowing illustrates a popular ignorance about
proper cold treatment. Nobody offers any detailed cold
treatment instructions - not pediatricians, not family physicians,
and not even the Internet - but Dr. Smith’s cookbook does.
His formulas blend courses of over-the-counter anti-inflammatory
medications, decongestants, and, when necessary, selected
antibiotics, to successfully and safely muzzle even the most
grizzly colds and the bacterial ear infections that follow
them. Readers will not only learn how to subdue their
children’s colds but also their own.
Recurrent and persistent childhood ear infections have become
rampant as more children at younger ages attend day care,
pre-school, and after-school care. Ear infection treatment is
the reason for most sick visits to pediatricians, and failed
medical therapy with a succession of ever stronger antibiotics is
the most common reason for childhood surgery. Ear infections
cost all of us in excess of $3 billion per year.
Dr. Smith’s ear infection treatment relies on prevention rather
than on after-the-fact rescues with strong antibiotics and surgery,
both of which can be costly. In addition to instructing
readers how to neutralize colds, he also teaches them to eliminate
other contributing factors including dry and dirty air, seasonal
and year-round allergies, and stomach acid reflux.
Dr. Smith has successfully coached thousands of parents in
California, Massachusetts, and Connecticut and taught them to work
with their children’s pediatricians to keep the kids healthy,
hearing, speaking clearly, and out of the operating room. The
publication of his cookbook now makes these methods available to
parents and children everywhere.
Parent’s Ear Infection Cookbook: Medical Recipes for Avoiding
Surgery can be purchased worldwide as a 200 page paperback at
Amazon.com (http://amzn.to/uWAmdP) and its international affiliates
in Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain, and Germany. Ebook
formats are also available at Amazon’s Kindle bookstore
(http://amzn.to/tHjbH5), Barnes and Noble’s Nook bookstore
(http://bit.ly/u8GX71), on the iBook Store (http://bit.ly/vCsOh5),
and on the Smashwords ebookstore (http://bit.ly/ufx5qH) for all
eReaders including iPad, iPhone, Sony, Palm, Kindle. Nook, Stanza,
and computer eBook applications.