Use of mattress encasements can reduce sensitisation to mite allergens in pre-school children of parents with atopic disorders.
One year after the introduction of dust mite avoidance measures, a team of European researchers from Greece, Lithuania, the United Kingdom and Germany found the incidence of mite allergen sensitisation in high-risk children of parents participating in the intervention group was half that of control children.
Mean age of participating children was 3.1 years. Only 10 of 330 children (3 percent) in the intervention arm of the multi-centre, environmental intervention trial were sensitised to mite allergens after one-year.
This compared to 20 of 306 control children (6.5 percent). “This simple, harmless and inexpensive measure can be used in toddlers and preschoolers of parents with atopic disorders to reduce sensitisation to mite allergens,” say investigators with the Study on Prevention of Allergy in Children in Europe (SPACE).
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