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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Allergy in children"”.
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Peanut Allergy in Children: Relationships to Health-Related Quality of Life, Anxiety, and Parental Stress
This study examined relationships between Health Related Quality of Life, child anxiety, and parental stress in a sample of children with peanut allergy. 51 families were recruited to complete a series of measures including a demographic questionnaire, the Parenting Stress Index, a PedsQL 4.0, and …
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The influence of socio-economic status on the prevalence of food sensitisation and food allergy in children 12 to 36 months in urban Cape Town, South Africa
… a public health concern with research suggesting a rising prevalence. FAs affect both the individual and their family advocating for a need to understand the extent of the problem. Allergies have increasingly been recognised as diseases of life-style resulting from interaction between genes …
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Vaccine-induced aluminium allergy and long-lasting subcutaneous itching nodules
Background: Aluminium contact dermatitis is rare even though aluminium is frequently used in antiperspirants and sunscreens. Sensitisation to aluminium is mostly a side effect of aluminium-adsorbed vaccines. These can also induce long-lasting intensely itching subcutaneous nodules (granulomas) at …
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Improving the management of allergic disease in adults.
Historically, there has been a strong focus clinically and in research on the impact of allergy in children but not adults. It is often attributed to the idea that the nature of one’s allergy in childhood is fixed for life past a certain age. Subsequently, significant gaps have developed in how we …
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A prospective cohort study on ambient air pollution, airborne pollen (and fungal spores) and respiratory morbidities including childhood asthma in adolescents from the Western Cape Province
Background: The epidemiological studies investigating environmental risk factors associated with asthma among children living in informal settlements are scant as are studies on the independent and co-pollutant effect of short- and long-term exposures to ambient air pollutants as well as fungal …
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NASAL CYTOLOGY: TOWARDS A DISCOVERING OF A PREDICTIVE TOOL OF COMMON AIRWAYS DISEASES¿ ONSET IN PEDIATRIC POPULATION
… Otitis Media (AOM), Upper Respiratory Tract Infections (URTI), bronchitis, asthma, allergy, rhinosinusitis and adenoidal hypertrophy are a daily challenge for clinicians such as otorhinolaryngologists, pediatricians and allergists. Those pathologies may lead, especially during the growth …