Do patients with allergic diseases have a higher risk of
developing severe COVID-19?
Patients with common allergic diseases do not develop distinct symptoms
or severe outcomes. Allergic children show a mild course similar to
non-allergic children5. In a recent study of 182
hospitalized children, 43 of them were reported with allergies. Allergic
rhinitis was the most prevalent allergic disease (83.7%), followed by
drug allergy, atopic dermatitis, food allergy and asthma. In this study,
allergic children showed a reduced increase in acute phase reactants,
procalcitonin, D-dimer and aspartate aminotransferase levels compared to
all patients. There were no deaths in allergic children in that
study.114