Bøger af Syrine Bellakhal

In the elderly, the clinical presentation of allergic diseases is often misleading due to the borrowed symptomatology and comorbidities. Moreover, at this age, skin tests are most often negative in relation to a physiological skin anergy linked to age. The diagnosis of allergic diseases in the elderly is important because of their impact on the quality of life and the morbidity they can cause. Allergic diseases have an impact on the management of the elderly. The presentation of allergic disease is not always typical, which is why it is important to look for it, even if the symptoms are not very suggestive. The most frequent allergens in the elderly are household allergens. Drug allergies should be investigated in these patients with multiple medications. Asthma is a comorbidity that must be controlled to avoid a cascade of pathologies and hospitalization in the elderly.

The number of elderly diabetics is constantly increasing. The degenerative complications of diabetes and the frequent comorbidities of diabetes in the elderly have a greater impact on the autonomy of the elderly. Taking into account these particularities of diabetes in the elderly population, the screening, the therapeutic management adapted to the age and the prevention of the complications of diabetes represent a real stake in geriatrics. The aim of our work was to describe the clinical, para-clinical, therapeutic and evolutionary characteristics of type 2 diabetes in the elderly.