They were most often treated for hay fever, which affected the child’s population significantly. This stems from data published on the website by the National Health Information Center (NCZI).
Clinical immunology and allergiology outpatient clinics recorded 1,346,084 visits last year, which was more by five percent year -on -year. Most of the visits consisted of adult patients aged 19 years or more (63.4 percent). “While the attendance of children and adolescents under 19 years of age increased by 3.5 percent year -on -year, a decrease of 9.3 percent was observed in adults over 19 years of age“added NCZI.
In regular outpatient care of allergiologists and immunologists, 476,486 patients were monitored, which was 40,687 more than in 2022. Children and adolescents under 19 were most often monitored for hay fever, secondary immunodeficient conditions and bronchial allergic asthma. The disease was similar in adult patients.
In 2023, 50,923 patients were treated with specific immunotherapy. “More than half of the patients (56.5 percent, in the number of 28,777 persons) was 19 or more,” NCZI said.
