Demographic study of paediatric allergic conjunctivitis within a multiethnic patient population
- St James’s University Hospital, Becket Street, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK
- Correspondence to: Mr Anil J Singh, St James’s University Hospital, Becket Street, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK; mraniljsingh{at}yahoo.co.uk
- Accepted 20 March 2003
From October 1999, all patients referred to the paediatric ophthalmology service in Bradford have been added to a computerised database. This is the only paediatric ophthalmology service within the city of Bradford and receives all GP referrals of this type. Patients with a clinical diagnosis of chronic allergic conjunctivitis were identified from October 1999 to July 2001. We compared the relative prevalence of chronic allergic eye disease between white and Asian patients in the paediatric population of the city of Bradford.
Confirmation of the diagnosis of chronic allergic conjunctivitis was made using case records. All patients were seen at the first visit by a consultant paediatric ophthalmologist (JAB).
A diagnosis of chronic allergic conjunctivitis was made if the patient had characteristic symptoms and signs based on criteria set out by Buckley in 1998.1 This was done to …
