O conhecimento de pediatras sobre alergia alimentar: estudo piloto

• Autor(a) principal: Solé, Dirceu [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Jacob, Cristina Miuki Abe [UNIFESP], Pastorino, Antonio Carlos, Porto Neto, Arnaldo, Burns, Dennis Alexander, Sarinho, Emanuel Sávio C., Prado, Evandro Alves do, Soares, Francisco José P., Rizzo, Maria Cândida V. [UNIFESP], Silva, Maria das Graças N. [UNIFESP], Rubini, Norma de Paula
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0103-05822007000400003; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/4080
• topic: food hypersensitivity; knowledge; child; food additives; food; milk substitutes; egg white; peanuts; tartrazine; hipersensibilidade alimentar; conhecimento; criança; aditivos alimentares; alimentos; substitutos do leite; clara de ovo; amendoim; tartrazina

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the knowledge of Brazilian pediatricians about food allergy. METHODS: Data was obtained from a sent back posted written questionnaire. It was filled in by Brazilian pediatricians, affiliated to the Brazilian Society of Pediatrics. Data was transcript to an Excel spread sheet and the frequency of affirmative responses was reported as percentages. RESULTS: Data from 895 written questionnaire of pediatricians from all over Brazil, (mainly from the southeastern region - 61.6%), were analyzed. The main clinical expressions of food allergy determined by the pediatricians were: respiratory, cutaneous and systemic symptoms (equal proportions). According to these pediatricians, cow's milk (98.9%), egg white (58.7%) and peanuts (50.9%) were the main allergens related to food allergy symptoms. Although 74.8% of the responders have indicated food dyes and food additives as associated to food allergies, only 19.4% of them knew the identification code of tartrarzine. CONCLUSIONS: The presented data reinforce the need to improve the pediatricians' knowledge about the diagnosis and treatment of food allergy, in order to assure the use of appropriate diagnostic and treatment criteria.