Marklund Birgitta, Ahlstedt Staffan, Nordström Gun
Centre for Allergy Research, Karolinska Institutet, S-171 77 Solna, Sweden.
Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol. 2007 Jun;7(3):279-87. doi: 10.1097/ACI.0b013e32814a569b.
The present article presents an accessible review of research results on food hypersensitivity and quality of life (QoL), including 15 original articles on the subject.
Research on food hypersensitivity and QoL covers children and their parents, adolescents and adults. Several domains of QoL are affected, such as family and social activities, emotional issues and family economy. Food-hypersensitive children are to a large extent limited in their autonomous social activities. Food-allergic adolescents have a higher number of weeks absent from school compared with a control group, and a relatively high percentage of food-allergic young adults do not participate in the labour market. Comorbidity has to be taken into consideration when assessing QoL in food-hypersensitive individuals. Research on gender differences in food hypersensitivity and QoL are scarce.
Although development in this research field has only just begun, it is obvious that food hypersensitivity has a significant impact on individuals' and families' QoL. An important advance is the disease-specific QoL measure instruments that have been created. There is still, however, a need for a more in-depth knowledge as a basis for further development of QoL instruments, and as a basis for societal interventions and family/individual support.
本文对食物过敏与生活质量（QoL）的研究成果进行了通俗易懂的综述，其中包括15篇关于该主题的原创文章。
关于食物过敏与生活质量的研究涵盖儿童及其父母、青少年和成年人。生活质量的几个领域受到影响，如家庭和社交活动、情感问题和家庭经济。食物过敏的儿童在自主社交活动方面受到很大限制。与对照组相比，食物过敏的青少年缺课周数更多，且有相对较高比例的食物过敏青年成年人未参与劳动力市场。在评估食物过敏个体的生活质量时，必须考虑合并症。关于食物过敏与生活质量的性别差异研究较少。
尽管该研究领域的发展才刚刚起步，但很明显食物过敏对个人和家庭的生活质量有重大影响。一个重要进展是已经创建了针对该疾病的生活质量测量工具。然而，仍然需要更深入的知识，作为生活质量工具进一步发展的基础，以及社会干预和家庭/个人支持的基础。
