Abstract
With the object of clarifying the features of body conposition of infant case of allergy, % body fat was determined by the impedance method, expressed as a SD score of % body fat based on a standard value, and a heght SD score was also examined in 63 cases of allergy.
1. In case of bronchial asthma, a SD score of body fat rate tended to decline with an advance of the disease serverity.
2. In case of atopic dermatitis, a hight SD score significantly declined with an advance of the disease severity, and a SD score of body fat rate showed an increasing tendency in advanced cases.
In case of atopic dermatitis, body height tends to decrease with an advance of the disease, and % body fat tends to increase in advanced cases. It is suspected that such physical features as seen in cases of atopic dermatitis are more strongly caused by abnormal secretion of growth homone due to stress of sleeplessness, or effect of external steroid preparations rather than by nutritional disorders due to elimination diet or absorption disorder in the intestinal tract. Therefore, patients, paticularly in advanced case of atopic dermatitis, comprehensive treatment is needed with paying attention to the above points.
