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Article: Age of Child Impacts Allergic Rhinitis Diagnosis. (Early Treatment may avoid Comorbidities).
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- Pediatric News
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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MONTEREY, CALIF.-- The type of allergies that a child develops tends to be age dependent, Dr. Frederick E. Leickly said at a meeting sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
For example, true allergic rhinitis is rare in children less than 1 year of age because IgE increases very gradually--markedly slower than IgG, IgA, and IgM. If allergic rhinitis is suspected in an infant less that 1 year old, pollen is probably not the culprit.
"Long, cumulative exposures are needed for a pollen-induced allergy," said Dr. Leickly of the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis. A true pollen allergy is unusual in any child under 3 years.
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