170 page full colour book with complete instruction of the Buteyko Method for children. The book contains Buteyko exercises in the form of story book, parents section and advice from renowned orthodontist Dr John Mew. The Book also includes one hour DVD of Patrick McKeown teaching the Buteyko method to three children aged five and seven years. The DVD is professionally filmed with animated instruction to help children fully understand and apply each Buteyko exercise.
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Patrick McKeown MA Trinity College Dublin, author of five books on the Buteyko method, his books include Asthma Free naturally, Close Your Mouth, ABC to be Asthma Free, Anxiety Free, Buteyko Meets Dr Mew. His ButeykoClinic is available in eight countries.
Children's self help story book
Parents section with medical references
Buteyko Kids meet Dr Mew
Buteyko Method for children and teenagers, also featuring guidance from orthodontist Dr Mew to ensure correct facial development and straight teeth
Patrick McKeown
The only approach to
* reverse asthma, hay fever and blocked nose
* improve sports ability
* improve concentration and energy
* reverse ADHD
* develop correct craniofacial structure
"Without doubt, children and teenagers who mouth or overbreathe are at a distinct disadvantage in terms of breathing, facial appearance, sleep quality and academic performance."
Developed in the 1950's by Russian Dr Konstantin Buteyko, the Buteyko Method reverses the bad habit of mouth and chronic overbreathing.
UK based orthodontist Dr John Mew developed Orthotropics in the 1960's. His life's work involves applying non invasive methods to ensure correct development of children's faces, jaws and teeth.
Patrick McKeown was accredited as a practitioner by the late Dr Buteyko in 2002. He has written five books and teaches the Buteyko Method internationally.
You might think that your child does not overbreathe. For most children, overbreathing is subtle. It is hidden, which is why it often goes undetected. The typical characteristics attending my clinics include:
Breathing through the mouth;
Audible breathing during rest;
Regular sighs;
Regular sniffing;
Irregular breathing;
Holding of the breath (apnoea);
Taking large breaths prior to talking;
Yawning with big breaths;
Upper chest movement;
Movement of shoulders while breathing;
Lot of visible movement;
Effortful breathing;
Heavy breathing at night.
How many apply to your child? Does your child sigh? Does your child breathe through their mouth? Do they wake up with a dry mouth in the morning?
Neurological: light-headed feeling, poor concentration, memory lapses, faintness, headache, anxiety, tension, racing mind, numbness and tingling, tremor, depression, apprehension, irritability, brain fog, panic attacks, disrupted sleep, detachment from reality and stress.
Heart: palpitations, a racing heartbeat, pain in the chest region and a skipping or irregular heartbeat.
Respiratory system: wheezing, breathlessness, coughing, frequent colds and chest infections, chest tightness, frequent yawning, snoring and sleep apnoea.
Gastrointestinal: Esophagal reflux, heartburn, aerophagia.
Other general symptoms include eczema, psoriasis, mouth dryness, fatigue, bad dreams, sleep disturbance, nightmares, ADHD, dry itchy skin, sweating, cramping, spasm, increased urination such as bed wetting or regular visits to the bathroom during the night, diarrhoea, constipation, general weakness and chronic exhaustion.
Over seventy years ago, dentist Dr Weston Price visited many primitive and isolated groups such as aborigines, Gaelic people, Swiss people, Eskimos, North American Indians and Maoris. His interest was in determining the effect of a change from their traditional to a more modernised European diet. His findings are published in a highly informative book entitled Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.2
Dr Price noted that when the Gaelic people, living on the Hebrides off the coast of Scotland, changed from their traditional diet of small seafoods and oatmeal to a modernised diet of "angel food cake, white bread and many white flour commodities, marmalade, canned vegetables, sweetened fruit juices, jams, and confections," first-generation children became mouth breathers and their immunity from the diseases of civilisation reduced dramatically.2
One of his observations is as follows: "The change in the two generations was illustrated by a little girl and her grandfather on the Isle of Skye. He was the product of the old regime, and about eighty years of age. He was typical of the stalwart product raised on the native foods.
His granddaughter had pinched nostrils and narrowed face. Her dental arches were deformed and her teeth crowded. She was a mouth breather. She had the typical expression of the result of modernisation after the parents had adopted the modern foods of commerce, and abandoned the oatcake, oatmeal porridge and sea foods."2
Recognizing the fact that children become mouth breathers is significant and illustrates the link between the modern diet and chronic mouth breathing. As a child experiences a greater demand to breathe heavier, he or she opens his or her mouth to breathe, thus causing craniofacial changes and negatively impacting his or her health. Increased breathing volume in turn affects immunity responses, often resulting in a blocked nose and thus completing the cycle.
Of all the species on earth, humans are most affected by crooked teeth. The traditional explanation is that the child inherited smaller jaws from his or her mother and larger teeth from his or her father. Could this be true?
In the aptly entitled book, Why Raise Ugly Kids? Dr Hal A. Huggins questions the genetic argument and cites his observation of working on the family farm. One comment is as follows: "Horse and donkey - cross them and you get a fine work animal. Used them a lot on the farm and know what? I never saw a mule with horse's teeth and a donkeys jaw."3
Dogs, with the exception of those who have been crossbred, are another good example, as the pups of a labrador father and poodle mother will have straight teeth. "Domestic dogs don't develop malocclusions (crooked teeth) unless they are selectively crossbred for the purpose as with bulldogs".1
According to Australian orthodontist Dr John Flutter, "every child's face has the growth potential to match its own set of teeth."5 Bearing this in mind, Dr Mike Mew advocates that "there is no evidence that we should not accommodate 32 well aligned teeth today or that there has been any genetic change."4
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