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Enero-junio 2014 N° 1 Volumen 6

Diagnosing allergies in children by ImmunoCAP© Rapid

Section: Originals

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De Mendiolagoitia Cortina LA, Martínez Álvarez A. Diagnóstico de alergias en niños mediante el InmunoCAP© Rapid. RIdEC 2013; 6(1):18-25.

Authors

1 Luis Antonio de Mendiolagoitia Cortina, 2 Alba Martínez Álvarez

Position

1 Máster en Ciencias de la Enfermería por la Universidad de Alicante. Enfermero del Centro de Salud de Mieres Sur, Asturias.

Contact email: luismendiola59@gmail.com

Abstract

Objective: To describe the value of ImmunoCAP® Rapid in detecting allergies in children 4 to 14 years of age without treatment with antihistamines and with clinical signs of atopy.
Material and methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study of a population of 94 children between 4 and 14 years old who went to the pediatric service in the Centro de Salud de Mieres Sur, over the years between 2007 and 2011, with allergy symptoms such as rhinitis, catarrh down the upper airways, dermatitis, asthma or bronchitis, for whom their pediatricians requested the diagnostic test (diagnostic accuracy) in primary care with ImmunoCAP® Rapid.
Results: Of the total number of 100 children included in the study, between 4 and 14 years old, six of them were excluded for being outside the age range or not having a diagnosis in their electronic medical record (IMO). Therefore, in total in the study there were 94 children.
The most common allergens were dust mites, followed by grasses, timothy, mugwort  and parietaria, followed by animals and pollen, such as olive and birch, and finally, three cases food allergies.
As for symptomatology we must highlight that 59.6% (56 patients) had rhinitis followed by atopic dermatitis. As for asthma, there were only four isolated cases, 11 together with allergic rhinitis (11.7%) and six with atopic dermatitis (6.4%).
Conclusions: ImmunoCAP® Rapid could be useful in primary care as a tool for the diagnosis of atopic dermatitis, atopy or allergic rhinitis in general.
It could also be effective for its speed, simplicity and proximity, also nurses can manage and perform it, so it has a very good cost-effectiveness.

Keywords:

Allergy; atopy dermatitis; rhinitis; asthma; mites; ImmunoCAP® Rapid

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Diagnóstico de alergias en niños mediante el InmunoCAP© Rapid