Download or read book Strategies for Protecting Your Child's Immune System written by Rodney R. Dietert and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ch. 1. Toxicology 101 -- ch. 2. What's the risk -- ch. 3. The risk exercises -- ch. 4. Introduction to the immune system -- ch. 5. How the immune system develops -- ch. 6. The special conditions of pregnancy and the immune system -- ch. 7. The healthy immune system at work -- ch. 8. The dysfunctional immune system and its features -- ch. 9. Avenues for immune exposure -- ch. 10. Diseases stemming from prenatal and early life toxic exposures -- ch. 11. The disease progression matrix -- ch. 12. Categories of environmental, physical and psychological factors -- ch. 13. Prenatal strategies for preventing immune system damage -- ch. 14. Strategies to use during the first few years of life -- ch. 15. Undoing the damage of the past in adulthood -- ch. 16. Top 25 risks -- ch. 17. Other risk factors -- ch. 18. Postnatal triggers of disease - infections -- ch. 19. Postnatal triggers of disease - vaccinations -- ch. 20. Dietary factors that affect the immune system -- ch. 21. Hygiene and pets -- ch. 22. Developmental immunotoxicity testing - past, present and future