The Take Care Of Yourself Guide To Treating Your Family's Most Common Symptoms

Book excerpt: For over twenty years, Vickery and Fries's Take Care of Yourself has been the world's bestselling health guide. It is the only book found to help reduce visits to the doctor by studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and other medical journals.Now Vickery and Fries have adapted their book's most important and useful advice into The Take Care of Yourself Guide. With this easy-to-consult health handbook, families can quickly look up a problem, read about the likely causes, and learn how they might treat it at home. These pages offer helpful advice on more than 60 of the most common symptoms families face, including when it is important to seek medical care. There is a special section on emergencies, easy to find in a crisis. The Take Care of Yourself Guide will also help you to stay healthy by clearly explaining the steps of preventive medicine: exactly what supplies you should keep in your medicine cabinet how to get the most from your relationship with your doctor and other health-care experts the seven keys to a long and healthy life This handbook will be good medicine for your entire family.