Bifidobacterium lactis Ameliorates the Risk of Food Allergy in Chinese Children by Affecting Relative Percentage of Treg and Th17 Cells

Table 5

The effects of B. lactis on pediatric allergy.

Parameters	One-month follow-up		value	Three-month follow-up		value
	BG	CG		BG	CG
Allergy symptoms
Rash, grades	1.51 ± 1.13	2.56 ± 1.67	<0.001	1.46 ± 1.29	2.59 ± 1.85	<0.01
Eczema, scores	11.70 ± 9.36	32.41 ± 14.61	<0.001	11.59 ± 10.88	32.52 ± 15.99	<0.01
Abdominal cramps/pain, scores	8.11 ± 6.73	22.16 ± 8.41	<0.001	6.03  ± 5.26	22.09 ± 11.44	<0.01
Vomiting, grades	1.05 ± 0.97	2.23 ± 1.65	<0.001	1.16 ± 1.08	2.31 ± 1.89	<0.01
IgE (μg/ml)	2.27 ± 1.94	5.82 ± 3.90	<0.001	1.53 ± 1.38	5.96 ± 4.97	<0.01

Note. BG, the patients received B. lactis treatment; CG, the patients received the solution without B. lactis treatment; TSS, total allergy symptom score. n = 126 and 124 for BG and CG groups, respectively, after one-month follow-up. n = 123 and 120 for BG and CG, respectively, after three-month follow-up. All data were presented as mean ± SD (standard derivation). The statistical difference was significant if when compared with the control group.