Clinico-laboratory criteria in the diagnosis of ARVi and respiratory allergoses in children
Safronova, O.N.; Nedel'skaia, S.N.; Boiarskaia, L.N.; Raspopina, V.I.
Pediatriia 8: 19-22
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0031-403X PMID: 1762851 Document Number: 381029
Overall 219 ailing children aged 3 to 14 years were examined, using the disease history, clinical, morphological, immunological and cytochemical data. There were 115 patients with allergoses and 104 patients suffering from acute respiratory viral infections (ARVI). A retrospective analysis has demonstrated that in 52.6% of the children, respiratory allergosis diagnosis was late (3-5 years since its onset). It has been established that hereditary allergic load, food and drug allergy, local eosinophilia of the nasal mucosa as well as a decrease of E-RFC, a rise of EAC-RFC levels, a lower T/B index, dysgammaglobulinemia marked by significant stable alterations in patients with respiratory allergoses and transitory, obscure changes associated with ARVI can serve differential diagnostic criteria.