Gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with asthma
| Autor: | Carlo Caffarelli, Franca Maria Deriu, Gianluigi De Angelis, Francesca Perrone, David J Atherton, Vittorio Terzi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Hypersensitivity
Immediate Male medicine.medical_specialty Allergy Abdominal pain Adolescent Gastrointestinal Diseases Atopy immune system diseases Internal medicine Immunopathology Confidence Intervals Odds Ratio Medicine Humans Child Letters to the Editor Asthma Skin Tests business.industry Respiratory disease medicine.disease respiratory tract diseases El Niño Case-Control Studies Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Immunology General and Specialist Paediatrics Vomiting Female medicine.symptom business Food Hypersensitivity |
| Zdroj: | Archives of disease in childhood. 82(2) |
| ISSN: | 1468-2044 |
| Popis: | AIMS Minor gastrointestinal abnormalities have been reported in children with asthma, but the prevalence of gastrointestinal symptoms in these children has not been studied. METHODS 75 children with bronchial asthma and an age and sex matched control group were recruited. Parents completed a questionnaire on gastrointestinal symptoms and on asthma. Weight and height were measured; a clinical evaluation of asthma was undertaken and skin prick tests were performed. RESULTS Children with asthma had a significantly greater frequency of gastrointestinal symptoms, particularly diarrhoea, vomiting, and abdominal pain, than did controls. Gastrointestinal symptoms were slightly more common in children with atopic symptoms other than asthma, or with positive skin prick tests to foods. There was no association between current gastrointestinal symptoms and medications or attacks of asthma. CONCLUSIONS The occurrence of gastrointestinal symptoms appears to be common in children with asthma. These symptoms might be caused by an atopic gastroenteropathy, which might play a part in the pathogenesis of asthma in some cases. |
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