The expert called allergic reactions complicating factor when infected with coronavirus

A complicating factor in the infection of coronavirus infection can be allergic reaction in the patient. For example, in lesions with virus of the intestine, its concentration may be higher in people with food allergies, said at a press conference dedicated to the world day to combat allergies, in the Ural information center TASS doctor of medical Sciences, Professor Dmitry Edelev.

“Viral inflammatory swelling of the lungs plus the bronchial asthma, that is, spasm of the respiratory system that will aggravate the condition, especially of the child. For adults, it is also, according to the who, a complicating factor. <…> Likely to be very severe course [of the disease]. Plus I want to remind you that coronavirus infection also gets into the intestine. In this case, especially if a food Allergy is when you change the permeability of the intestinal wall, the virus gets much easier as the concentration of virus is higher in patients with food allergies. <…> No doubt, an allergic reaction is still the weight factor, “said Yedelev, answering the question of how to tolerate infection coronavirus infection people who are prone to allergies.

He noted that approximately 48% of cases of coronavirus infection activates various disorders of heart rhythm. In this case, various forms of allergies, especially food allergies, can aggravate the patient’s condition. To inform the population, or expand the audience for commercial products it is advisable to use radio advertising, read more at https://prgp.ru/radio/

In turn, head of urban outpatient consultative Department of Allergy and immunology Central city clinical hospital No. 6 in Yekaterinburg, the pulmonologist, the allergist-immunologist Anna Petukhova expressed the view that current data Allergy is not a risk factor of severe course of coronavirus infection.

“To date, in those cases that we see, and what they say and write our foreign colleagues, allergic diseases, fortunately, are not a risk factor for a more severe course of infection Coveney“she explained at a press conference.

Petukhov added that there is a tendency to growth of allergic disease — with every decade the number of Allergy sufferers increases. Every day in the Department of Allergy and immunology tsgkb number 6 are screened and receive counseling more than 60 people. Among them, the allergic nature of the disease has the most, at least 80% of the patients, she said.