[Allergic illnesses and psychiatric disorders]

In the Allergic Service of a General Hospital 56 allergic patients were studied. They were patients with hypersentivity to drugs, allergic rhinitis and asthma who presented different psychological disorders. They were assessed with different variables: previous psychiatric diagnosis, personal and familiar background of psychiatrics disorders, the most frequent allergic disease, and the sociodemographic variables. Allergic to Drugs patients are identified like the ones who presents the highest number of psychological disorders. From the point of view of the sociodemographics aspects the characteristics of the allergic patients that receive psychological attendance correspond to: women of ages between 30 and 50 years old with Elementary Education and whose occupation is housewife. As common psychological character to this groups of patients is identified the presence of expressed anxiety in different ways, depending on the different variables.