Eosinophilia causes

Eosinophilia are caused by a wide range of conditions. Its commonest causes are allergic diseases such as asthma and hay fever, parasitic infections such as intestinal worms. It can also occur in relation to common skin diseases, medicine reactions.

The following conditions are some of the possible causes of Eosinophilia:

• Allergic/atopic diseases
• asthma
  
• urticaria
  
• eczema
  
• allergic rhinitis
  
• drug hypersensitivity
  
• angioneurotic oedema
• Helminthic (ie, worm) parasitic infections
  
• Ascariasis
  
• Schistosomiasis
  
• Trichinosis
  
• Visceral larva migrans
  
• Gnathostomiasis
  
• Strongyloidiasis
  
• Fascioliasis
  
• Paragonimiasis
• Connective tissue diseases
  
• Churg-Strauss syndrome
  
• Rheumatoid arthritis
  
• Eosinophilic fasciitis
  
• Polyarteritis nodosa
• Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome
• Neoplasia
  
• Lymphoma (Hodgkin lymphoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma)
  
• Leukaemia: chronic myeloid leukaemia, adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL)
  
• Gastric cancer or lung carcinoma (paraneoplastic eosinophilia)
• Skin diseases such as eczema, pemphigus
• Eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome caused by contaminated tryptophan supplements
• Drugs such as chlorpromazine, digitalis, penicillin and streptomycin