The Relationship between Infantile Atopic Dermatitis and Urinary Tract Infection

Atopic dermatitis (ad) is one of the most common infantile diseases. immunologicaldysfunctions in ad patients may predispose them to infections. the aim of this study was toevaluate 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 thatreferred 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 wascultured at concentration of ≥105 organisms per millimeter and the existence of white bloodcells more than 10 per microscopic field was seen the patients underwent suprapubicaspiration.the presence of one organism in suprapubic aspiration sample was regarded as positiveculture. data were analyzed using spss version 15 software. p value <0.05 was considered asthe level of significance. twelve (21.1%) of ad patients and 1(1.8%) of normal controls hadpositive 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 suggestscreening all ad infants for urinary tract infection.