[Study of IgE.IgG4 antibodies on eczema in infants. II. Clinical characteristics of infants with egg white.RAST 4+].
The author made an assessment in his first report, regarding relationship to the degree of skin involvement. As a result, it was suggested that the extent of eczema is a good index for determining the severity of the allergy and also that the severity of the allergy early in the infancy has a good correlation with egg white.specific IgE antibody. Therefore, an assessment had been made this time regarding the clinical characteristics of 32 infants who have strong reactions (egg white.RAST 4+) to egg white. The results were as follows; 1. All the infants with egg white.RAST 4+ had a systemic eczema, and their IgE antibodies showed high values of 445.6 +/- 626.9 IU/ml. 2. There were many cases with positive multiple allergens. Particularly, all the infants with egg white.RAST 1+ - 2+ were negative to rice and wheat, while 7 cases positive RAST score to rice and 9 cases to wheat were seen out of the 32 who showed the RAST 4+ to egg.white early in the infancy (rice; p less than 0.02 and wheat; p less than 0.01). 3. If the growth curves of the group from which egg and milk were completely eliminated are compared with the curves of the healthy infants, the height and head circumference were entirely in the normal range while the weight and Kaup index had a trend of being a little low, though they were within the normal range. 4. Regarding family history of allergies, past histories of atopic dermatitis on the mother's side were observed at a high rate.
Sasamoto
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A
Department of Pediatrics, Toho University.
Saito
S
S
Uchiyama
H
H
Kishida
M
M
Tago
H
H
Koya
N
N
Matumoto
H
H
Koshibu
T
T
Iikura
Y
Y
D003876:Dermatitis, Atopic / Q000276:immunology*; D004529:Egg White / Q000009:adverse effects; D005260:Female; D005512:Food Hypersensitivity / Q000209:etiology / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D007073:Immunoglobulin E / Q000378:metabolism*; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000378:metabolism*; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011852:Radioallergosorbent Test
D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D007073:Immunoglobulin E