Article
[Constitutional differences in the risk of hypersensitivity to cats in children].
Annales de medecine interne - 1 Jan 1991
de Montis G
Abstract excerpt
Several risk factors for allergy to cats were studied in children and teenagers who had respiratory symptoms possibly of allergic origin and were chronically exposed to a cat. It appears that: atopic dermatitis significantly increases the risk, independently of the other parameters examined; a family history of presumed allergic respiratory disease without atopic dermatitis significantly increases the risk in...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Animals
- Cats
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Dermatitis, Atopic
- Female
- Humans
- Hypersensitivity
- Male
- Phenotype
- Respiratory Hypersensitivity
