Aeroallergen in Thai asthmatic children.

ABSTRACT

Intradermal skin-teat reactions in 521 Thai asthmatic children (345 males and 176 females), aged between 3 and 15 years, with an average age of 6.8, were studied at the allergy clinic of Ramathibodi Hospital. Of the total, 456 (87 per cent) patients gave positive immediate skin reaction at least one “common aeroallergen”. The mist commonly seen aeroallergens were house dust (75 per cent) and house dust mite (73 per cent), followed by mold (55 per cent), grass ( per cent), weed (43 per cent), kapox (41 per cent) and cockroach (18 per cent). The finding of this study was that the most important aeroallergens were house dust and house dust mites which was similar to the results previously found in similar studies.