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Association between bed bugs and allergic reactions
- Source :
- Parasite Immunology. 43
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2021.
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Abstract
- AIMS To evaluate whether bed bugs are associated with allergic reactions in patients seen in the emergency department (ED). METHODS AND RESULTS This retrospective study included data from 9 EDs in Ohio between February 2011 and February 2017. The study comprised 332 patients with bed bug infestation matched 1:15 with 4952 control patients without bed bugs on the basis of age, sex and the presenting ED. Compared with uninfested patients, patients infested with bed bugs were more likely to have an ED or inpatient diagnosis of pruritus, hives or urticaria (odds ratio [OR], 9.12 [95% CI, 3.41-24.42]) and to be treated in the ED with an antihistamine (OR, 3.20 [95% CI, 1.87-5.50]) or albuterol (OR, 1.59 [95% CI, 1.07-2.36]) (P ≤ .02 for all). There were no significant differences in the rates of anaphylaxis and angioedema diagnosed in patients with and without bed bugs, which occurred in
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Bedbugs
medicine.medical_specialty
Allergy
030231 tropical medicine
Immunology
Ectoparasitic Infestations
Biology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Bed bug
Internal medicine
parasitic diseases
Hypersensitivity
medicine
Animals
Humans
Retrospective Studies
Angioedema
Retrospective cohort study
Odds ratio
Emergency department
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
030104 developmental biology
Parasitology
medicine.symptom
Cimex lectularius
Anaphylaxis
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13653024 and 01419838
- Volume :
- 43
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Parasite Immunology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c5113a2784b527e1b5d6ca667425c385
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/pim.12832