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Summary: Harmful Advice
Review: This book encourages people to sleep as little as possible, use an inhaler only when they can not breathe, tape a child's mouth at night to force him/her to breathe through the nose, throw away peak flow meters, and put babies to sleep on their tummies-all harmful advice that could have serious, even fatal, consequences.
For a healthy, sensible approach to asthma control, read "Asthma-Relax, You're Not Going To Die".
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Summary: Use with Caution
Review: This book needs to be taken with a grain of salt and only be used with your doctor's consent and advice. In searching for more information, check out a well-done research study, done in Austrailia where this method has been used for awhile. URL is: http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/xmas98/bowler/bowler.htmlAll of us who suffer from breathing disorders, want help and answers.. it is agonizing and scary, but we need to be educated comsumers. Check with your MD, FIRST.
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Summary: Verbose, badly organized,basically a promo for her clinic
Review: This is a very disappointing book.Claims for five-day cures for anything should obviously be viewed with skepticism, but I had hoped that she had something to offer. What's offered is a long-winded promotion piece for her clinic and minimal information on Dr. Buteyko's approach. There's equivalent information (concisely stated) of potentially greater value on Dr. Buteyko's web site.
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Summary: Pseudo-science
Review: What a disappointment. I really wanted this to work. I have had moderate-to-severe asthma for twnety years and would do anything to be free of the medications and the wheezing. This program seemed too good to be true. It was. I tried it, following the program religiously, and wound up with worse breathing than before. The overtly promotional aspect bothers me a lot too. For example, the author makes much of the fact that her clinic was "officially opened by the Prince of Wales." Well, every member of the royal family attends about a zillion such openings every year, but she makes it sound like he was a major player in forming the clinic. That's like claiming your product is "officially approved by the U.S. Government" because you got a federal tax I.D. number. There are other weird statements in the book that I have big problems with, for example the contention that one reason asthma is on the rise is that there are more trees now than there used to be, hence more oxygen. HUH? Has the author looked out a window lately? Some aspects of this so-called program are described in repeated and tedious detail, but other important ones are simply referred to in passing. For example, there is almost nothing on the topic of exercise and asthma, a very tricky issue for those of us who have wound up in emergency rooms after trying to exercise. And much of the diet information is out-of-date and just plain wrong. I have to say that as much as we all hate Big Medicine, and would love for this lone voice in the wilderness to be right, there is a reason the idea that more carbon dioxide/less oxygen is good for you is not accepted by the medical establishment--it's a crock. In certain situations, it can even be dangerous. This book is irresponsible.
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Summary: F.Y.I. (I had to rate the book to post - I have not read it.
Review: With regard to the comment made by one reviewer that they basically found it ominous that the Hale Clinic is not even teaching the Buteyko method any more, ( or words to that effect) - in the interests of accurracy .....
I have just visited the Hale site where this book is referred to and was therefore reading the reviews with a view to buying it. I had found the following on the Hale site before coming here to Amazon.....
The Hale clinic offers the following:
"Asthma Treatment: Using Breath Connection, a revolutionary breathing re-conditioning programme."
Basically/essentially/effectively, her clinic now calls the Buteyko method the Breath Connection Method.
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