Prevalence of food allergens sensitization and food allergies in a group of allergic Honduran children

Victoria Alejandra Gonzales-González, Adolfo Martin Díaz, Karla Fernández, María Félix Rivera, Victoria Alejandra Gonzales-González, Adolfo Martin Díaz, Karla Fernández, María Félix Rivera

Abstract

Background: Food allergy is a public health problem that has increased in the last decade. Despite the increasing rates in children, quality data on the burden of these diseases is lacking particularly in developing countries. Honduras has no studies in pediatric patients.

Objectives: The objective of this research was to identify the most common sensitization patterns to food through epicutaneous skin testing and food allergy rates in children and their correlation with common allergic diseases in a group of patients from Hospital of Pediatrics Maria.

Methods: Cross-sectional retrospective, descriptive study in which records and database of all allergic patients in the immunology outpatient clinic from Hospital of Pediatrics Maria were reviewed between the periods of January 2015 through June 2016.

Results: A total of 365 children were analyzed, the age of participants were in the range from 1 to 18 years, with an average of 9.8 years. Sensitization to food allergens were found in 23, and 58.3% were poly-sensitized. The most common food allergens that patients were sensitized to: milk 9.0%, eggs 6.9%, peanut 4.9% and pork meat 4.4%. Food allergy was confirmed via oral food challenged in 9.3% of the patients. The most frequent food allergies found were: cow's milk allergy 6%, hen's egg allergy 5.2% and wheat allergy 1.9%.

Conclusions: Milk and egg were the most common a food allergens found in the population studied. Most of the patients were found to be poly-sensitized. The frequent food allergies confirmed via oral food challenge were cow's milk allergy, hen's egg allergy and wheat allergy.

Keywords: Allergens; Allergy; Children; Sensitization; Skin prick test.

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