Clinical manifestations of children with mosquito allergy
Table 3 shows the clinical manifestations of the patients and the
comparison of symptom duration according to the features of the
reactions. Most children in our study were in Stage 2 (72.8%) followed
by children in Stage 3 (26.1). There was only one child (1.1%) in Stage
4. There were no children in Stage 1 or Stage 5. The most common skin
lesion was erythematous papule (92.6%). Generalized urticaria was
detected only in 4.3% of the children. In the 76.1% of children, the
skin reactions developed later than 4 hours after mosquito bite. The
lesions recovered within 7 days in two third of the children (61.7%).
The diameter of the lesions was larger than 10 cm in 9.4% of the
children. Ecchymosis was significantly more frequent in children with
reactions larger than 10 cm compared to children with smaller lesions
(47.1 vs 17.3, p=0.021) and in boys compared to girls (32.0% vs.13.6,
p=0.036). Bullae were significantly more frequent in children with
asthma (41.7% vs.15.9, p=0.034).