2023-06-12 11:59:00
Kyung Hee Medical Center Digital Health Center Professor Yeong-Geon Lee’s team (Sungkyunkwan University Lee Seung-won, Yonsei University Shin Jae-il, CHA University College of Medicine Professor Shin Yun-ho, Kyung Hee University Researcher Kwon Ro-ji) published these findings in the latest issue of Allergy.
The research team conducted a study on 1.78 million children registered with the National Health Insurance Service from 2009 to 2015. The results showed that children with food allergies had an 11% higher risk of fracture than normal children. The more severe the food allergy symptoms were, the higher the fracture risk was. The risk of fracture in children with mild allergic symptoms was 9%, while the risk of fracture in severe children with anaphylaxis (acute shock) was more than twice as high at 21%. In addition, the risk of fracture tended to increase as the number of hospital visits due to food allergy was three or more or the age at diagnosis was low.
Professor Yeong-gun Yeon said on the 12th, “It is difficult for children with food allergies to consume nutrients evenly due to extensive food avoidance, and in particular, a lack of vitamin D and calcium weakens the immune system and bones, which is presumed to increase the risk of fracture.” Children diagnosed with .
Food allergy is a disease that causes symptoms such as itching, hives, shortness of breath, low blood pressure, and loss of consciousness when food acts as an antigen that causes an immune response. Symptoms usually appear within a few hours of eating the causative food. Milk, eggs, wheat, walnuts, peanuts, buckwheat, shrimp, soybeans, and pine nuts often cause allergies in children. Recently, perilla seeds have also been reported as a food that causes severe allergies in children.
Min Tae-won Medical Reporter
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