Author/Authors :
Farajzadeh, Saeedeh Department of Pediatric Dermatology - Afzalipour Hospital - Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman , Ghazanfari, Farzaneh Department of Pediatric Nephrology - Afzalipour Hospital - Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman , Esfandiarpour, Iraj Department of Dermatology - Afzalipour Hospital - Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman , Shahesmaeili, Armita Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman , Rahnama, Zahra Department of Dermatology - Afzalipour Hospital - Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman , Aghaei, Hamideh Department of Dermatology - Afzalipour Hospital - Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman
Abstract :
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is one of the most common infantile diseases. Immunological
dysfunctions in AD patients may predispose them to infections. The aim of this study was to
evaluate the relationship between infantile AD and urinary tract infection (UTI).
In this cross sectional study, we enrolled 57 patients with AD aged 1 to 24 months that
referred to dermatology clinic, and 57 healthy controls who were referred to pediatric clinic.
The groups were matched according to age and gender.
Urine samples were collected by clean-voided bag method. If a single organism was
cultured at concentration of ≥105 organisms per millimeter and the existence of white blood
cells more than 10 per microscopic field was seen the patients underwent suprapubic
aspiration.
The presence of one organism in suprapubic aspiration sample was regarded as positive
culture. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 15 software. P value <0.05 was considered as
the level of significance. Twelve (21.1%) of AD patients and 1(1.8%) of normal controls had
positive urine culture tests. The difference between two groups was statistically significant (p
= 0.001). The most common bacteria was E-coli.
Infants with AD showed a higher frequency of UTI in this study. So, we suggest
screening all AD infants for urinary tract infection.
