IGHE and inflammatory response: Calvert et al reported that Ascaris might induce an inflammatory response in the lungs independent of its effect on IgE production, which might explain some of the contradictory findings reported in studies examining the association between geohelminth infection, atopy, and asthma.11 Therefore, the type of wheezing we observed might have been caused by pulmonary eosinophilic inflammation independent of IgE.