title: [Are the left-handed more often allergic?].
abstract: Are left handed more frequently allergic patients? With the same evaluation clinical criteria, we find a Non Right Handedness (left handed + mixed handedness) in 48/403 children (11.9%) at school in a town near our consultation place and in 152/625 (24.32%) children of the same age with a mites allergy (p less than 0.001). This non right handedness is among allergic patients more frequently observed for boys: 126/442 (28.50%) than for girls: 26/183 (14.20%). The mechanism is unknown but it has been hypothesized (Geschwind) that a male related factor might slow left hemisphere development and trouble immune system equilibration.
authors.affiliation: Service de Pédiatrie Centre Hospitalier, Lens.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lelong
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Thelliez
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Thelliez
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006225:Hand; D006801:Humans; D006967:Hypersensitivity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male
vernacular_title: Les gauchers sont-ils plus souvent des allergiques?