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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENew book helps parents control children’s ear infections, avoid ear surgeryWEST HARTFORD, CT (E-MAIL) -- Parent’s Ear Infection Cookbook: Medical Recipes for Avoiding Surgery, written by Harvard-trained pediatric ear specialist Howard G. Smith, M.D., teaches parents that successful ear infection treatment need not require expensive surgery or the repetitive use of strong antibiotics.  Dr. Smith’s recipes prevent ear infections by teaching parents how to control the common colds and other problems that cause them.  His first instruction for moms and dads is “stop your kid’s nose blowing! Nose blowing forces infected material into the ears and nasal sinuses. If you were meant to blow your nose, you would have been born with bellows.” Widespread nose blowing illustrates a popular ignorance about proper cold treatment.  Nobody offers any detailed cold treatment instructions - not pediatricians, not family physicians, and not even the Internet - but Dr. Smith’s cookbook does.  His formulas ble