Pediatric allergies emerge when children are hypersensitive to substances considered harmless that are found both in food and in the environment, internal and external. Some of the most common allergens are dust mites, mold spores, some foods. Recognizing allergy is not always easy and immediate, especially in children, where allergic symptoms are superimposed on other causes, often of an infectious type. Even reactions to food are not always due to allergies: they can be food poisoning from bacterial contamination or from reactions resulting from the intake of large quantities of histamine, additives, dyes.
In order to arrive at a correct diagnosis, a detailed medical history is very important, evaluating the type of symptomatology with the pediatrician who, if necessary, will send the parents to the specialist for specific tests. The allergist can then use diagnostic tests to evaluate the child’s reaction. Anna Maria Zicari, full professor of pediatric allergology: “Hidden allergies are discovered in the laboratory with stimulus tests, recreating the environment in which the child moves. In many cases it is not a question of systemic allergies in the blood, but of rhinitis local allergic, that is, they have a localized allergy only at the nasal level “.
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