Children with allergic asthma sensitized to house dust mites getting
better health during COVID-19 pandemic
Abstract
Background: Since December 2019, 2019 novel corona virus (2019-nCov)
disease (COVID-19) has extended to most parts of China with more than 80
thousand cases. From Feb 1 st to Mar 31
st of 2020, all children were asked to stay indoors in
China. Then how it affected allergic asthma (AA) sensitized to house
dust mites (HDM) in children was interestingly to clarify. Objective: To
investigate the changes of clinical characteristics of children with AA
sensitized to HDM during COVID-19 pandemic. Method: The data including
asthma symptom scores(SS), visual analog scores (VAS), asthma quality of
life questionnaire (AQLQ) and medicine scores (MS) as well as
respiratory infections, cares, staying up late and diets, collected from
children with AA sensitized to HDM from Feb 1 st to
Mar 31 st of 2019 and 2020 retrospectively, were
analyzed. Results: There were 85 children with AA sensitized to HDM
included in this research. Compared with SS, VAS, AQLQ and MS of the
patients from Feb 1 st to Mar 31 st
of 2019, SS, VAS, AQLQ and MS of the patients improved significantly
(p<0.05) during COVID-19 pandemic. No respiratory infections
occurred among them and they got better cares, had better diets and
stayed up late less during COVID-19 pandemic. Conclusion: During
COVID-19 pandemic, children with AA sensitized to HDM got better health
for staying indoors, which might be associated with no respiratory
infections, better cares, better diets and less staying up late.