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15-year-old male student in critical condition due to anaphylaxis from eating crabs

Vinh Long Xuyen A General Hospital has just received and successfully treated a 15-year-old child who was critically ill because of anaphylaxis due to anaphylaxis. food allergy.

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The patient’s family said that after 30 minutes of eating crab, the patient had a red, itchy rash all over the body. The family buys medicine to treat it at home, but the urticaria is more common. The patient complained of fatigue, difficulty breathing, then lost consciousness, so his family took him to the emergency room.

The patient was admitted to the hospital in a state of shortness of breath, light pulse, and difficult to measure blood pressure. Diagnose this is 1 case anaphylaxis (grade III anaphylaxis) is life-threatening, so the patient is immediately treated according to the anaphylaxis protocol.

Currently, the patient is stable and recovering.

According to doctors, food allergy is a common disease in children appearing early in the first year of life (80%). About 6-8% of children under 3 years of age have at least one food allergy. Common foods that cause allergies in children are: cow’s milk, eggs, and legumes. Other less common causes are seafood (shrimp, crab, sea fish, oysters, squid…). Some additives or colorants, such as monosodium glutamate, can also cause allergies in children.

Children with food allergies are hospitalized usually between 6-7 years old, in boys more than girls with twice the rate. The foods that often cause severe allergies in children hospitalized are sea fish, shrimp, eggs and fish sauce.

Anaphylaxis usually occurs quickly after the child is exposed to the allergen, when the child shows cyanosis, hypotension, respiratory failure and requires immediate emergency care. A severe allergic reaction that causes anaphylaxis if not treated promptly can be fatal.

Doctors recommend: Parents who know their children have allergies should pay attention to avoid foods that their children were allergic to before. In mild cases of allergies, reducing or avoiding food allergies is the best way to prevent the reappearance of allergy symptoms.

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