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Volume 4
Journal of Pediatric Care
ISSN: 2471-805X
Page 61
JOINT EVENT
August 06-07, 2018 Madrid, Spain
&
2
nd
Edition of International Conference on
Adolescent Health & Medicine
18
th
International Conference on
Pediatrics Health
Pediatrics Health 2018
&
Adolescent Health 2018
August 06-07, 2018
Relation bronchial asthma and parasitic (nematodes) infection in Egyptian children
Yossef Habib
Alexandria Police Hospital, Egypt
Background:
Among the many factors influencing the prevalence of asthma in developing countries from the tropics are geo-
helminthic infections.
Aims:
This work aims to study the relation between bronchial asthma and parasitic infestation in Egyptian children.
Patients and Methods:
A cross-section, analytical study design was chosen to perform this research on 100 school aged
children. All children were interviewed and examined clinically and laboratory.
Results:
86%of patients with bronchial asthma lived in urban areas, while 64% of patients with parasitic infestation lived in
rural areas. Statistically significantly Negative correlations were found between blood level of IgE and FEV1% of predicted in
patients with bronchial asthma as well as patients with parasitic infestation with r=-0.381, -0.325 at p=0.006, 0.021 respectively.
Inverse relationship was found between blood level of IgE and FEV1/FVC% in patients with parasitic infestation with r= -0.358
with statistical significant difference at p=0.011.
Conclusions:
Statistically significance higher values of IgEwere found in patients with parasitic infestation compared to patients
with bronchial asthma. It was noted that patients with combined bronchial asthma and parasitic infestation demonstrated
statistically significance higher values of IgE which suggest a possible synergistic effect of two diseases.
Recommendation:
Improving personal and environmental hygiene and regular screening, treatment and health education for
children as regard parasitic infections is recommended.
yossefhabib@yahoo.comJ Pediatr Care 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.21767/2471-805X-C3-012