PEDIATRICS Vol. 44 No. 4 October 1969, pp. 583
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GENERALIZED REACTION TO INSECT BITES

Philip J. Torsney M.D.1

1 Insect Committee American Academy of Allergy 758 North Milwaukee Street Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202

The Insect Committee of the American Academy of Allergy is interested in obtaining information concerning reactions to biting insects. The Committee is not interested now in purely local reactions, but rather it wishes data on patients who have had constitutional symptoms following insect bites (e.g., fever, arthralgia, hives, dyspnea, and so forth). At this time, we do not request information on patients suffering abnormal reactions to bee, wasp, hornet, or yellow jacket sting.

Stable fly, horse fly, deer fly, black fly, sand fly, biting midge, chigger mite, ticks, scorpion, wheel bug, kissing bug, and spider are reported to cause constitutional symptoms after a bite. We request information from any physician who has seen or treated a patient who has sustained an unusual reaction to such bite. This information should include age, sex of patient, insect causing reaction, site of insect bite, size of local reaction, was there previous unusual reaction to insect bite, description of associated symptoms, duration of such symptoms, was symptomatic treatment necessary, results of desensitization treatment if instituted, results of any diagnostic tests, and presence of other allergic problems in the patient.

We ask any physician who has seen or treated such case to submit the above information to Claude A. Frazier, M.D., 4-C Doctors Park, Asheville, North Carolina 28801.