Of the 147 cases of recurrent infantile respiratory infection

123 revealed facial bluish vessels

mostly at the nasal root involving the temporal part. In terms of the shapes of the vessels

most of them were transverse ones

then came vertical ones

with the majority at the temporal part in branched shape. Syndrome diagnosis for the bluish - vessel group was mainly deficiency of the spleen and lung

followed by deficiency of the lung - qi. Immunological exams showed the rate of high IgG. IgE were 37. 5% and 47. 6% respectively. There was statistical difference in the indices of T cell subgroup among the bluish -vessel group

control group and normal control group

with high agglutination rate of platelets in the bluish -vessel group.