'Toxic stress' on children can harm their lifelong learning, mental and physical health [usatoday.com]

Alicia Doktor 10/8/1812:00 PM

The 10-year-old girl suffered from persistent asthma, but the cause was unclear. Tests ruled out everything from pet hair to cockroaches.

Then the girl's mother thought of a possible trigger.

“Her asthma does seem to get worse whenever her dad punches a hole in the wall," she told Dr. Nadine Burke Harris. "Do you think that could be related?”

Harris, a San Francisco pediatrician, includes the example in her new book, "The Deepest Well," to show the connection between what's known as "toxic stress" and physical health.

[For more on this story by Jayne O'Donnell, go to https://www.usatoday.com/story...l-health/1358220002/]

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