[Mother and two siblings with cockroach asthma].
We report 2 siblings, an 11 year-old girl and a 10 year-old boy, with cockroach asthma who developed the symptoms in May and October, 1999, respectively. Both children were considered as psychogenic asthma because of poor familial environment and late onset. Their mother also had asthmatic attacks since September, 2001. It became clear in the detailed clinical history that their rooms had not been cleaned up at all for a long period, and a lot of cockroaches had lived in the house. A significantly high titer of cockroach specific IgE-antibody (CAP-RAST) was detected in all three patients, and cockroach was considered as the main allergen of asthma in these patients. Although many cases with cockroach allergy including asthma have been reported in United States, it has not been recognized well in Japan yet. We would like to emphasize that cockroach should be kept in one' s mind as an important allergen of asthma.
Oishi
Taku
T
Department of Pediatrics, Ooida Hospital. oishi044@arion.ocn.ne.jp
Morisawa
Yutaka
Y
Yasueda
Hiroshi
H
Akiyama
Kazuo
K
Wakiguchi
Hiroshi
H
D000485:Allergens / Q000032:analysis / Q000276:immunology*; D000818:Animals; D001249:Asthma / Q000209:etiology* / Q000235:genetics; D002648:Child; D003058:Cockroaches / Q000276:immunology; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007073:Immunoglobulin E / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D035781:Siblings
D000485:Allergens; D007073:Immunoglobulin E