Mbarek Chiraz, Akrout Amel, Khamassi Khaled, Ben Gamra Olfa, Hariga Ines, Ben Amor Mohamed, Zribi Sarra, El Khedim Abdelkader
Service d'ORL et de chirurgie cervico-faciale, Hôpital Habib Thameur, Tunis, Tunisie.
Tunis Med. 2008 Apr;86(4):358-61.
Upper respiratory tract (URT) infections are common in children. The knowledge of their risk factors allows in some cases better management. The aim of our study is to evaluate the role of allergy in this pathology.
Through a cross-sectional study about 100 children having recurrent URT infections, we evaluated the prevalence of allergy in order to find a relation between the two pathologies in general, and between allergy and each recurrent pathology. The results were compared with those of a reference group involving 164 children.
Our study confirms a statistically significant association between allergy and recurrent URT infections (p=0.01), also between allergy and rhinopharyngitis (p=0.02), rhinosinusitis (p=0.001) and acute otitis media (p=0.01).
Allergy represents a risk factor for recurrent URT infections, particularly for rhinopharyngitis, rhinosinusitis and acute otitis media. Adequate management of allergy may consequently be beneficial for the treatment and the prevention of these infections.
上呼吸道（URT）感染在儿童中很常见。了解其危险因素在某些情况下有助于更好地进行管理。我们研究的目的是评估过敏在这种病理状况中的作用。
通过一项针对约100名患有复发性URT感染儿童的横断面研究，我们评估了过敏的患病率，以找出这两种病症之间的总体关系，以及过敏与每种复发性病症之间的关系。将结果与一个包含164名儿童的参照组的结果进行比较。
我们的研究证实过敏与复发性URT感染之间存在统计学上的显著关联（p = 0.01），过敏与鼻咽炎（p = 0.02）、鼻窦炎（p = 0.001）和急性中耳炎（p = 0.01）之间也存在显著关联。
过敏是复发性URT感染的一个危险因素，尤其是对于鼻咽炎、鼻窦炎和急性中耳炎。因此，对过敏进行适当管理可能有利于这些感染的治疗和预防。
