The Epidemiology of Allergic Disease – Asthma, Hay Fever, Eczema

Atopy can be determined as such the production of specific IgE response to common exposure to environmental allergens like dust mites, grass and cat or pets. Living with atopic allergic diseases such as asthma, allergic rhinitis linked, and eczema, but not everyone with atopy develops clinical manifestations of allergy and not everyone can be detected in clinical allergy syndrome, atopic diseases, it has been tested for specific IgE for a wide range of environmental allergens. This is especially true for asthma.

Asthma is probably the severest allergic diseases that caused more than 100 000 hospitals entry annually in England and Wales alone. Asthma can cause fatal in several cases. During 1995, almost 200 people lost their lives as a result of asthma (aged less than 45 years). Despite these concerns expressed that death certificates may overestimate or underestimate asthma mortality depending on the mode of asthma diagnosis, significant grading and other forms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in this age group is unlikely.

In the early 1960s we saw dramatic increased of mortality caused by allergic disease (mainly asthma) in many countries. The increase is assigned to the excessive use of non-selective agonists, which are then withdrawn from the market. Most recent rise in asthma mortality reported from England, France and the United States may have an increased prevalence of asthma or severity of or inadequate health care. Evidence of the latter comes from audits and confidential information, inadequate treatment of asthma in the months before his death show and during the fatal attack, and observation of higher mortality in the population and often receives poor recognized health care (socio- economic disadvantaged people in the United Kingdom, blacks in the U.S.).

In England and Wales’s we saw asthma mortality increase significantly between the 70s and the mid-80s. But then it has declined steadily early 90s.

Allergic rhinitis and eczema symptoms are crucial causes of morbidity. Both are responsible for a significant proportion of the utilization of health services, quality of life, particularly in primary care and mitigation.