RE: Eyelash length in children and adolescents with allergic diseases.

[Guest guest]

My son has beautiful long eyelashes too...significantly longer than the rest

of the family..

Re: Eyelash length in children and adolescents with

allergic diseases.

C:

Interesting! I was just outside in the backyard looking at my son's

totally gorgeous long, long eye lashes in the sunlight (even

commented to him abt them) ... and then, just now, I came back

inside and read your post. I used to have very, very long lashes,

but they all fell out when I was pregnant.

~C.

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[Guest guest]

This is interesting. My husband and I both have very long thick

eyelashes and so does our autistic son. My husband had severe

allergies as a child. I have always been allergic (not intolerant,

_allergic_) to milk and our son has a deadly allergy to soy. Go

figure.

Eyelash length in children and adolescents with

allergic diseases.

I've never heard this one before.....guess we can put this in the

catergory

of believe it or not,lol.

The long eyelash thing doesn't fit me since my eye allergies were so

bad

when I was a kid that mine were usually thin and sparse.

I do have to say that both of my kids (males) have beautiful,

long, and

thick eyelashes. I've always joked about how envious I was

considering the

pitiful ones their momma has. <grin>

Pediatr Dermatol. 2004 Sep-Oct;21(5):534-7.

Eyelash length in children and adolescents with allergic diseases.

Levy Y, Segal N, Ben-Amitai D, Danon YL.

Kipper Institute of Immunology, Schneider Children's Medical Center of

Israel, Petah Tiqva, Israel.

Long eyelashes may be congenital, acquired in association with certain

systemic diseases, or drug induced. In the past, long eyelashes were

considered an external sign found in children with allergic diseases.

However, this claim has never been examined in a controlled study. We

compared the eyelash lengths of allergic children and adolescents with

perennial allergic rhinitis, with or without bronchial asthma and

atopic

dermatitis (n = 60) to those of age- and sex-matched nonallergic

controls (n

= 80).

The eyelashes of the allergic patients were found to be significantly

longer

than those of the controls: 9.43 +/- 1.39 mm versus 8.45 +/- 1.30 mm

(p <

0.001). Eyelash length did not differ between patients with allergic

rhinitis only (n = 31; 9.65 +/- 1.43 mm) and patients with allergic

rhinitis

and other allergic diseases (n = 29; 9.19 +/- 1.31 mm) (p = 0.196).

These results indicate that children and adolescents with allergic

diseases

have longer eyelashes compared to nonatopic controls and that long

eyelashes

may be a part of the phenotype of the allergic patient.

PMID: 15461756 [PubMed - in process]

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[Guest guest]

A few years ago when we saw a DAN doctor, who also happened to be an MD in

Environmental Medicine, he took one look at my sons beautiful eyes and said,

" oh he is an allergic child, look at how long his eye lashes are " . I always

remembered that but never had heard it anywhere else and certainly had never

seen any studies to support it. Interesting. Thanks for the post.

Lori