Precipitating factors in respiratory allergic disease in Indonesian children.
Skin test results and IgE antibody levels measured by RAST indicate that hypersensitivity to house dust mite (D. pteronyssinus) is a major feature of asthma and allergic rhinitis in Indonesian children. Total serum IgE levels were higher in the allergic than in control children. 60% (twenty-one out of thirty-five) of the asthmatic children and 56% (five out of nine) of the children with allergic rhinitis had IgE antibodies to the helminth Ascaris lumbricoides compared with none out of four control children. A tendency was found for high IgE antibody levels to D. pteronyssinus to occur in association with low IgE antibody levels to A. lumbricoides and vice versa.
D000293:Adolescent; D000485:Allergens; D000818:Animals; D001200:Ascaris / Q000276:immunology; D001232:Aspergillus fumigatus / Q000276:immunology; D001249:Asthma / Q000209:etiology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004391:Dust; D005241:Feathers / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D007073:Immunoglobulin E / Q000302:isolation & purification; D007214:Indonesia; D008894:Milk Proteins / Q000276:immunology; D008925:Mites / Q000276:immunology; D011058:Pollen; D011852:Radioallergosorbent Test; D006255:Rhinitis, Allergic, Seasonal / Q000209:etiology*; D012434:Secale
D000485:Allergens; D004391:Dust; D008894:Milk Proteins; D007073:Immunoglobulin E