SPREAD OF RESPIRATORY ALLERGY AND ATOPIC DERMATITIS IN PUPILS OF SAKHA REPUBLIC (YAKUTIYA) LIVING IN DIFFERENT ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS

Abstract

Epidemiologic researches about the study of respiratory allergy and atopic dermatitis spread in 1512 pupils of Yakutsk living in different ecological conditions were done. Children from areas with ecologically unfavorable conditions had a higher frequency of bronchial asthma symptoms, allergic rhinitis and atopic dermatitis during the last year. It outnumbered the morbidity rate of children from more favorable ecological areas in 2.4, 2.8 and 2.1 times, respectively. Children from ecologically unfavorable area had more frequent attacks of bronchial asthma, insomnia, speech disability, dry cough at nights; children with allergic rhinitis had evident disturbances of daily activity, high frequency of pollinosis, which proved the tendency of allergic diseases to develop more complicated clinical course in ecologically unfavorable areas.