Characteristics of allergic colitis in breast-fed infants in the absence of cow’s milk allergy

Table 2 Laboratory data on admission in infants with allergic colitis, allergic colitis 1, allergic colitis 2 and control subjects (mean ± SD)

	AC (n = 30)	AC1 (n = 19)	AC2 (n = 11)	Controls (n = 34)
Hemoglobin (g/L)	115 ± 13	114 ± 12	115 ± 14	113 ± 10
Iron (µmol/L)	8.4 ± 3.2b	8.9 ± 2.9b	7.6 ± 4.0b	13.7 ± 4.7
Thrombocytes (G/L)	474 ± 123b	458 ± 126b	497 ± 122b	376 ± 89
Eosinophils (G/L)	0.67 ± 0.49b	0.51 ± 0.45	0.91 ± 0.47a	0.33 ± 0.17

^aP < 0.05 vs allergic colitis (AC),

^bP < 0.01 vs controls. Allergic colitis 1 (AC1) consisted of patients with eosinophils between 6 and 19/ high power field (HPF), and allergic colitis 2 (AC2) with eosinophils ≥ 20 eosinophils/HPF.