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