THE RESULTS OF EVALUATION FOOD SKIN TEST (PRICK TEST) IN CHILDREN WITH ASTHMA, MLLERGIC RHINITIS AND URTICARIA

Yenigun A, Tanac R, Demir E, Gulen F, Can D

Division of Pediatrics Allergy and Respiratory Disease, Department of Pediatrics, Ege University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey

 

Objective: Food allergy is a formation of according to IgE early and late immunologic reaction which is composed of eating some kind of food. Primary target organs are skin, gastrointestinal and respiratory system. Cows milk, egg, peanut wheat and cereal, fish and shell-fiuit and vegetable the most often reactions in childhood term are caused by.

Methods: This study has been planed in order to find out food that causes allergy by giving prick skin test in those asthma, rhinitis, urticaria. Food prick skin test has been made in following 150 cases at Ege University of School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatrics Allergy Outpatient. The cases were between the ages of 5-18 which were 64.7% male, 35.33% female and in total of 150 cases were 42%(++) and over. Prick skin tests have been made against cacao, coffee, tea, oliva, onion, garlic, red and black paper, com maise, wheat and 1st flour, mixture of seven cereals, fish and shell, fruits as apple, banana, orange, peach, strawberry, peanut, hazelnut and vegetables as potatoes, tomatoes and egg and chicken.

Results: The most reaction has been found in those 12(8,1%) patients against cereals, in 3(2%) patients against red pepper and in 2 (1,3%) patients against egg, fish and hazelnut. As a result, rhinitis and asthma+rhinitis cases those diagnosed have expressively been found against food skin tests.

Conclusion: In diagnose of a topic diseases history, clinic and laboratory findings together with inhaler allergens also against foods skin tests should be perform. In (+) prick skin test cases since it’s a double blind placebo control oral provacatinon test which is the gold standard test and also the prick test is used to find diagnosis of food allergy.

This study has been preliminary and also will be followed as 2. Part of study of oral provacation test.

 

 
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