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Prevalence of food allergens sensitization and food allergies in a group of allergic Honduran children

BACKGROUND: Food allergy is a public health problem that has increased in the last decade. Despite the increasing rates in children, quality data on the burden of these diseases is lacking particularly in developing countries. Honduras has no studies in pediatric patients. OBJECTIVES: The objective...

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Autores principales: Gonzales-González, Victoria Alejandra, Díaz, Adolfo Martin, Fernández, Karla, Rivera, María Félix
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6004676/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29946340
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13223-018-0245-x
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author Gonzales-González, Victoria Alejandra
Díaz, Adolfo Martin
Fernández, Karla
Rivera, María Félix
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Díaz, Adolfo Martin
Fernández, Karla
Rivera, María Félix
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description BACKGROUND: Food allergy is a public health problem that has increased in the last decade. Despite the increasing rates in children, quality data on the burden of these diseases is lacking particularly in developing countries. Honduras has no studies in pediatric patients. OBJECTIVES: The objective of this research was to identify the most common sensitization patterns to food through epicutaneous skin testing and food allergy rates in children and their correlation with common allergic diseases in a group of patients from Hospital of Pediatrics Maria. METHODS: Cross-sectional retrospective, descriptive study in which records and database of all allergic patients in the immunology outpatient clinic from Hospital of Pediatrics Maria were reviewed between the periods of January 2015 through June 2016. RESULTS: A total of 365 children were analyzed, the age of participants were in the range from 1 to 18 years, with an average of 9.8 years. Sensitization to food allergens were found in 23, and 58.3% were poly-sensitized. The most common food allergens that patients were sensitized to: milk 9.0%, eggs 6.9%, peanut 4.9% and pork meat 4.4%. Food allergy was confirmed via oral food challenged in 9.3% of the patients. The most frequent food allergies found were: cow’s milk allergy 6%, hen’s egg allergy 5.2% and wheat allergy 1.9%. CONCLUSIONS: Milk and egg were the most common a food allergens found in the population studied. Most of the patients were found to be poly-sensitized. The frequent food allergies confirmed via oral food challenge were cow’s milk allergy, hen’s egg allergy and wheat allergy.
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spelling pubmed-60046762018-06-26 Prevalence of food allergens sensitization and food allergies in a group of allergic Honduran children Gonzales-González, Victoria Alejandra Díaz, Adolfo Martin Fernández, Karla Rivera, María Félix Allergy Asthma Clin Immunol Research BACKGROUND: Food allergy is a public health problem that has increased in the last decade. Despite the increasing rates in children, quality data on the burden of these diseases is lacking particularly in developing countries. Honduras has no studies in pediatric patients. OBJECTIVES: The objective of this research was to identify the most common sensitization patterns to food through epicutaneous skin testing and food allergy rates in children and their correlation with common allergic diseases in a group of patients from Hospital of Pediatrics Maria. METHODS: Cross-sectional retrospective, descriptive study in which records and database of all allergic patients in the immunology outpatient clinic from Hospital of Pediatrics Maria were reviewed between the periods of January 2015 through June 2016. RESULTS: A total of 365 children were analyzed, the age of participants were in the range from 1 to 18 years, with an average of 9.8 years. Sensitization to food allergens were found in 23, and 58.3% were poly-sensitized. The most common food allergens that patients were sensitized to: milk 9.0%, eggs 6.9%, peanut 4.9% and pork meat 4.4%. Food allergy was confirmed via oral food challenged in 9.3% of the patients. The most frequent food allergies found were: cow’s milk allergy 6%, hen’s egg allergy 5.2% and wheat allergy 1.9%. CONCLUSIONS: Milk and egg were the most common a food allergens found in the population studied. Most of the patients were found to be poly-sensitized. The frequent food allergies confirmed via oral food challenge were cow’s milk allergy, hen’s egg allergy and wheat allergy. BioMed Central 2018-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6004676/ /pubmed/29946340 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13223-018-0245-x Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Gonzales-González, Victoria Alejandra
Díaz, Adolfo Martin
Fernández, Karla
Rivera, María Félix
Prevalence of food allergens sensitization and food allergies in a group of allergic Honduran children
title Prevalence of food allergens sensitization and food allergies in a group of allergic Honduran children
title_full Prevalence of food allergens sensitization and food allergies in a group of allergic Honduran children
title_fullStr Prevalence of food allergens sensitization and food allergies in a group of allergic Honduran children
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of food allergens sensitization and food allergies in a group of allergic Honduran children
title_short Prevalence of food allergens sensitization and food allergies in a group of allergic Honduran children
title_sort prevalence of food allergens sensitization and food allergies in a group of allergic honduran children
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6004676/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29946340
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13223-018-0245-x
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