Acid Reflux in Children: How Healthy Eating Can Fix Your Child's Asthma, Allergies, Obesity, Nasal Congestion, Cough & Croup

A Parent's Guide to Reflux in Infants, Children & TeensThis is an important book that will help change how America eats and guide parents to heal our needlessly sick children and adolescents.

There are 80 million infants, children and teens in America, and most have unhealthy diets. Every year, tens of millions are misdiagnosed as having asthma, allergies, nasal congestion, ear infections, chronic cough and croup, when the real problem is acid reflux.

A bad diet and childhood obesity are both strongly associated with reflux. So, when a child has a respiratory disease and is not getting better with medical treatment, we believe parents should consider that reflux may be the problem. Why? Because it can be fixed!

Reflux is the greatest masquerader of our time. It can be the cause of almost any kind of respiratory symptom or disease.

Unlike adults who may have obvious reflux symptoms (indigestion and heartburn), children are almost always "silently refluxing," and silent means that reflux is mysterious, difficult to diagnose and easy to overlook. Kids with reflux rarely complain of heartburn or indigestion.

Respiratory reflux is the missing link between bad diet and many symptoms. Today, respiratory reflux is so common it is almost invisible. Pediatricians and medical specialists often diagnose children with asthma, sinusitis or allergy, when what they really have is reflux. Doctors all too frequently prescribe children antacid medications without beneficial effects.

The real villain is not vanquished by pills. Most medications won't do a thing for children's reflux symptoms and can sometimes cause more harm than good.

Reflux is not only uncomfortable and inconvenient, it's dangerous. If left untreated, reflux can wreak havoc on a child's ears, nose, throat, airways, lungs and digestive system.

Our successful reflux rehabilitation program is a platform for change, with the long-term goal of health maintenance and disease prevention. And, for overweight children, another benefit of this book's reflux program is that they will lose weight naturally and slowly with a diet that is simply "lean, clean, green and alkaline."

When we fix a child's reflux, parents' knowledge translates to significant dietary changes for the entire family. Out go the juice, soda, chocolate milk and other unhealthy choices. When parents understand that too much acid and sugar in the diet, and eating supper too late in the day has a big negative impact on the family's health, they act. Their children's well-being is at stake.

Once reflux is identified or even suspected, the fix is more in parents' control than many realize. Acid Reflux in Children is the revolutionary book for parents who want to help their children lead healthy, active lives, free of acid reflux and the many other symptoms this condition can create.

Here's to our future - HEALTHY CHILDREN!

"In the United States, the traditional medical approach has been to focus on treatment rather than prevention of disease and illness. Nutrition and diet, though, can be at the heart of good health. Acid Reflux is a case in point. Drs. Koufman, Wei and Zur through their engaging stories and experience, empower the reader to make healthier food choices through appropriate understanding of the underlying mechanisms of acid reflux disease. Acid Reflux in Children is a must-read for anyone treating, advising, cooking for, and/or caring for children with acid reflux disease. It introduces evidence-based yet pragmatic and easy to understand nutritional practices to help health care providers and parents use nutrition and good cooking habits to restore and maintain children's health. More importantly, working through nutrition to eliminate the cause of acid reflux can decrease or even eliminate the need for medication, and improve a child's quality of life."- Robert W. Carr, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P.M., President, American College of Preventive Medicine
"Meeting Dr. Jamie Koufman completely changed my life. My symptoms of chronic cough and shortness of breath had been diagnosed since my childhood as asthma. Dr. Koufman identified that I had reflux, not asthma, and guided me step by step how to cure it. I have my life back and I owe it all to Dr. Koufman's insight and help." -Suze Orman, Host of the Suze Orman Show, CNBC

"Good eating habits start in the first two years of life. Drs. Jamie, Julie, and Karen share compelling case files that you will not find elsewhere. This book should change how parents feed their children and how physicians council parents to minimize the plaguing illness caused by reflux. Imagine diet over medication!" - Dana Mara Thompson, M.D., M.S., F.A.C.S., Lauren Holinger Chair in Pediatric Otolaryngology, Professor of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and Division Head of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery, Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
"There is nothing worse for a parent than seeing their child suffer--and being unable to get any help from the doctor. This book empowers parents, as the authors provide an easy-to-implement dietary strategy for complete reflux relief. In addition, it offers delicious, family-friendly recipes to get even your most reluctant eater on board." -Dominique Vonsiatksy (parent of a four-year-old girl)

Dr. Jamie Koufman, one of the world's leading authorities on the diagnosis and treatment of acid reflux, is the New York Times best-selling author of Dropping Acid: The Reflux Diet Cookbook & Cure, The Chronic Cough Enigma, and Dr. Koufman's Acid Reflux Diet. She is the Founder and Director of the Voice Institute of New York and Clinical Professor of Otolaryngology, New York Eye & Ear Infirmary of the Mount Sinai Medical System. For more about Dr. Koufman, visit VoiceInstituteofNewYork.com or take a look at her latest blog post at VoiceInstituteofNewYork.com/category/all-posts/; other sites include RefluxinChildren.com.Take the Koufman Reflux Quiz at VoiceInstituteofNewYork.com/us-patients/ Follow Dr. Koufman on Social Media:Twitter: @Dr.JamieKoufman; Facebook: @Dropping Acid: The Reflux Diet Cookbook & Cure
Dr. Julie Wei is Professor of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Central Florida School of Medicine and is Surgeon-in-Chief of Nemours Children's Hospital and the Division Chief of Pediatric Otolaryngology. She is also the author of A Healthier Wei-- Reclaim Health for Misdiagnosed and Overmedicated Children.

Dr. Karen B. Zur is the Director of the Voice Program and Associate Director of the Center for Pediatric Airway Disorders at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). She is an Associate Professor of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery at Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania.