[IgE levels in children affected by respiratory allergies (author's transl)]

Radioimmunological technique has been used in order to measure IgE seric levels on 100 children affected by respiratory allergies, on 46 children with non allergic respiratory diseases and on 54 healthy children distributed in different classes of age. In the 58% of cases, allergic subjects presented IgE levels remarkably increased compared with non allergic ones, in the 28% of cases IgE levels had an insignificant increase, and in the remaining 14% the values were comparable with those of the non allergic subjects.